Thirteen Moons
by Charles Frazier, Read by Will Patton, 2006. This story is about the life of an individual who moved west to North Carolina as a youth in the early part of the nineteenth century and the subsequent events in his … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Books
Under a Wing, A Memoir
by Reeve Lindbergh, 1998, Simon & Schuster, New York I thought this book was somewhat interesting, especially in the passages about her father, Charles. Other passages such as the reminiscences about her sister and her personal emotional experiences were very … Continue reading →
Fly Boys, A True Story of Courage
by James Bradley, 2003, Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, New York When I first started reading this book, I thought that it was going to be just another collection of reminiscences from veterans of WWII that would … Continue reading →
Saturday
by Ian McEwan, Read by Steven Crossley, 2005 by Ian McEwan, 2005 by Recorded Books, LLC This book has some positive qualities such as the depiction of the main character. He is very believable and one can relate to his … Continue reading →
Desert Queen, The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Advisor to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
by Janet Wallach, 1996 This is an amazing story of a woman who played a major role in the early 20th century in the creation of the current country of Iraq. She was one of the first women to attend … Continue reading →
Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett, 1989 This is an interesting book, and a quick read, about the building of a cathedral in medieval England. It is well researched and provided a lot of insight regarding how life was in those times. Follet was … Continue reading →
Endgame, 1945, The Missing Final Chapter of World War II
by David Safford, 2007, Little, Brown and Company, New York This book is about the final few months of World War II, covering April of 1945 through June. To show the various events, the author uses the personal experiences of six … Continue reading →
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy, Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Wow! This one took me over four months to read. I wasn’t sure whether I would ever get through it. The issue wasn’t that it was so long; … Continue reading →
The Cat Who Went Up The Creek
by Lilian Jackson Braun, Read by George Guidall, 2002 by Lilian Jackson Braun, 2002 by Recorded Books, LLC Since I am a cat person (we have three cats), I always wondered what these books were like. We had a long … Continue reading →
The Bridesmaid
by Ruth Rendell, Read by Barbara Rosenblat We listened to this recorded book on a long road trip. The writing is fairly decent and the characters are pretty well developed. The book is billed as a mystery, however, and its downfall … Continue reading →