The Lion Women of Tehran
by Marjan Kamali, 2024, Gallery Books My wife and several women in our community read this book and said it was very good. I decided to give it a try and thought it might be okay, but that it was … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Books
The Chemist
by Stephenie Meyer, 2016, Audiobook narrated by Ellen Archer, Hachette Audio When I started reading this book, I thought it looked promising. It’s about a woman (called Alex for most of the book) who is working for a government agency … Continue reading →
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960’s
by Doris Kearns Goodwin, 2024, Simon & Schuster, New York I have read other books by Doris Goodwin and think highly of her as an author and historian. This book is quite different from her other books as it is … Continue reading →
Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Book 1)
by Anthony Horowitz, 2009, Audiobook narrated by Nathaniel Parker, Listening Library This book is categorized as a “children’s book”, but it definitely is not that. Horowitz had mentioned his Alex Rider books frequently in his Hawthorne detective novels so I … Continue reading →
Horse
by Geraldine Brooks, 2024, Penguin Books This is an interesting and well-written novel about a thoroughbred horse called Lexington who lived in the middle of the nineteenth century. Brooks based the book on a the horse that was declared the … Continue reading →
Close to Death (Book 5 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
by Anthony Horowitz, 2024, Audiobook narrated by Rory Kinnear, Harper Audio This novel is a bit different from the preceding four as it doesn’t cover a current crime being investigated by Hawthorne. Horowitz has committed to delivering five Hawthorne books … Continue reading →
The Twist of the Knife (Book 4 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
by Anthony Horowitz, 2022, Audiobook narrated by Rory Kinnear, Harper Audio This book is a bit different in that the author, Horowitz, isn’t investigating a murder with Hawthorne, but is pursued as the primary suspect in a murder. When a … Continue reading →
The American Story, Conversations with Master Historians
by David Rubenstein, 2019, Simon & Shuster, New York This book is a collection of edited transcripts of conversations that the author, David Rubenstein, had with some well-known American historians. The conversations were held at the Library of Congress beginning … Continue reading →
Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti Book 1)
by Donna Leon, 2012, Kindle Edition, Grove Press I was looking forward to the first book of the Commissario Brunetti series as I had read (or listened to) four of her books in the series previously. I was not impressed … Continue reading →
A Line to Kill (Book 3 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
by Anthony Horowitz, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Rory Kinnear, Harper Audio Horowitz gets an invitation to a book fair on a channel island and decides to attend with Harthorne where they will attempt to promote Horowitz’ first book (which hasn’t … Continue reading →