by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter, 2008, Grand Central Publishing, New York This is a nice story, but is probably more interesting because of the story of the author and small-town Midwestern America. Dewey was obviously a special cat, but … Continue reading →
by Vince Flynn, 1997 This is a very good thriller about assassinations of politicians in Washington, D.C. The characters are pretty good, although a tad bit overdone in some cases, and the plot moves right along and is, for the … Continue reading →
by Randy Wayne White, Read by Ron McLarty, 2000 by Randy Wayne White, 2005 by Recorded Books, LLC. This is another mystery/thriller set in South Florida. There is a lot of information regarding the early history of the area, including … Continue reading →
by Banazir Bhutto, 2008, HarperCollins Publishers, New York Banazir Bhutto finished this book shortly before she died in an attack on her car in Pakistan. The book is an overview of the problems facing the Muslim world and its relationship … Continue reading →
by Rajaa Alsanea, Read by Kate Reading, 2005 This is a book that was supposedly made from a series of e-mails that a woman in Riyadh wrote to a mailing list about several of her friends and their relationships with … Continue reading →
by Patrick D. Smith, 1984 This is a lovely book about three generations of a family that settled in Florida just prior to the Civil War. The characters are interesting and the author keeps the pace going by including just … Continue reading →
by Tony Hillerman, Read by George Guidall, 2002 There is not much to say about this book. It is a typical Tony Hillerman work that combines a fairly good mystery, characters that are okay, a bit of romance, all positioned … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →