by Ann Patchett, Narrated by Hope Davis, 2011, Audible.com This book is about a pharmacologist (who happens to be in a relationship with the CEO of the pharmaceutical company where she works). She is asked by her boss to go to the Amazon … Continue reading →
by James W. Douglass, 2010, Touchstone I really don’t know what to say regarding this book. Mr. Douglass has done a great deal of thinking and research on the Kennedy assassination and is convinced that the CIA orchestrated it because … Continue reading →
by Barry Estabrook, 2012, Andrew McMeel Publishing Barry Estabrook does a good job of outlining what has happened to the tomato in Florida over the last few decades. It was particularly interesting because we live so close to the heart … Continue reading →
by Michael Ondaatje, 2011, Audiobook read by the author, Random House Audio The setting of this story is intriguing … three boys pretty much on their own on a steamer from Ceylon to England. They encounter some pretty unusual characters … Continue reading →
by Umberto Eco, 2010, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., New York While I read this book I kept thinking it was going to get better. It didn’t. I was interested in the book because it had to do with the … Continue reading →
An Inspector Wexford Mystery, by Ruth Rendell, 1964, Audiobook Narrated by Nigel Anthony, 2010, AudioGO, North Kingstown, RI. This was fun to listen to as Nigel Anthony did a great job of portraying the various characters. The author also did a … Continue reading →
by Louis L’Amour, 1949, Audiobook read by Jim Gough, 2005, Blackstone Audio What can I say? A typical western, somewhat enjoyable, but lots of stereotyped good and bad guys and it feels really dated. This one had a somewhat improbable … Continue reading →
by Jared Diamond, first published in 1997 this edition has an afterword published in 2004, W.W. Norton & Company This book was interesting for me to read, although a bit of a chore. The work is very repetitious and sometimes … Continue reading →
by Sanjay Gupta, Audiobook read by Christian Rummel, 2013, Hachette Audio Dr. Gupta is apparently a fairly renowned medical spokesperson, but his attempt at a novel is pretty miserable. It is a series of subplots with no overarching plot. The … Continue reading →
by Amy Waldman, 2011, Farrer, Straus, and Giroux, New York This is a novel about the selection of a design for a memorial garden in New York for 9-11. The selection process is anonymous and the novel creates an interesting … Continue reading →