by Louise Penny, 2024, Audiobook narrated by Jean Brassard, MacMillan Audio This book is about a plot to poison the water supply of Montreal. Inspector Gamache manages to come to the rescue at the last minute and prevents the disaster … Continue reading →
by Gardiner Harrris, 2025, Random House This is a revealing book describing the bad behavior of one of Amecia’s most trusted and respected companies. Harris goes into much detail about the risks and damaging results of many J & J … Continue reading →
by Bernhard Schlink, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Nathalie Buscombe, Harper Via I would classify this book as a swing and a miss. It’s about a woman in Pomerania before WWII who falls in love with an aristocrat. The parents of … Continue reading →
by Ian McEwan, 2007, Audiobook narrated by the author, Random House Audio This is another of a series of audiobooks by accomplished authors that have disappointed me. I have enjoyed McEwan’ books such as Atonement and Machines Like Me, but … Continue reading →
The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland, and Dion Graham, Penguin Audio This book was apparently about a young man who was released from a reform school in Nebraska and his younger brother … Continue reading →
by Truman Capote, published posthumously in 2005 from a manuscript discovered years after the author’s death in 1984, Modern Library, an Imprint of Random House I was visiting Mt. Dora, Florida, a month or so ago and we went into … Continue reading →
by Claire Keegan, 2021, Grove Press, New York This is a nice little book which I would classify as a novella as it has only 114 pages. It’s about a man in Ireland who delivers coal to his customers. He … Continue reading →
by Jussi Adler-Olsen, 2007, translation 2011, Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC The book is about an old detective in Copenhagen who is charged with creating a department to solve old unsolved crimes. He is given an office … Continue reading →
by Salman Rushdie, 2008, Audiobook released 2011, narrated by Sam Dastor, Recorded Books I don’t get it. The book started out with a tale of two men who were in an airplane that blew up in mid-air, but they somehow … Continue reading →
by George Orwell, 1949, 75th Anniversary Edition published in 2024 by Berkley, and imprint of Random House LLC, New York 1984 is the classic novel written in 1949 about a supposed dystopian society in 1984. When it was written, it … Continue reading →