by Olga Tokarczuk, 2019, Kindle Edition, Riverhead Books The high school I attended has started a book club and this book was one of the monthly selections. It is about an older lady who lives by herself in Poland, very … Continue reading →
by Terry Hayes, 2024, Emily Bestler Books (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) My wife gave me this book for my birthday, and when I saw it I couldn’t wait to read it because I enjoyed his previous book, I … Continue reading →
A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 17 by Louise Penny, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Robert Bathurst, released in 2021 Macmillan Audio This book started out with an interesting theme: euthanasia. A person who claims to be a statistician has apparently … Continue reading →
A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 16 by Louise Penny, 2020, Audiobook narrated by Robert Bathurst, released in 2020 Macmillan Audio This book is very different as the whole Gamasche family is in Paris. Jean-Guy Beauvoir has accepted a job … Continue reading →
A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 15 by Louise Penny, 2019, Audiobook narrated by Robert Bathurst, released in 2019 Macmillan Audio Inspector Gamasche, to everyone’s surprise, has accepted the position as head of the homicide division of the Sûreté du … Continue reading →
by Hernan Diaz, 2022, Penguin Publishing Group This book is about a reclusive Wall Street Mogul who amassed a huge fortune, even as he weathered the crash of 1929. He is reclusive but wishes to tell his story for posterity … Continue reading →
A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 14, by Louise Penny, 2018, Audiobook narrated by Robert Bathurst, released in 2018 Macmillan Audio As this book begins, Inspector Gamache is suspended from his position as Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, and … Continue reading →
by Anthony Horowitz, 2019, HarperCollins books This is the second book in the Detective Hawthorne series. The murder mystery unfolds very slowly this time. It’s about a man who is killed in his home beaten over the head and eventually … Continue reading →
A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 13, by Louise Penny, 2017, Audiobook narrated by Robert Bathurst, released in 2017 Macmillan Audio This addition to Louise Penny’s Three Pines Series finds that Inspector Gamache is now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté … Continue reading →
by Nicholas Dawidoff, 1995, 2011, Vintage Reprint Edition I really did not like this book! It was selected for our book club and the verdict was that it wasn’t written very well, but that they “all” liked the story. I … Continue reading →