Con/Artist
by Tony Tetro and Giampiero Ambrosi, 2022, Hachette Books, New York I wish I could like this book more than I did. I think the problem is the main character, whom I didn’t like one bit. It wasn’t that he … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Books
Leonardo da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson, 2017, Audiobook narrated by Alfred Molina, Simon & Schuster Audio My Review This book is well-researched and provides much information about the life and works of Leonardo. I gained a deeper appreciation of the character and genius … Continue reading →
Beatles, Books, Bombs, and Beyond
by Robert John DeLuca, 2017, Creatspace Independent Publishing Platform, North Charleston, South Carolina This book is a great view of what it was like being a Navy ROTC student at Brown University in the turbulent mid-1960’s when the culture of … Continue reading →
The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse: A Novel of Love and War
by Alexander McCall Smith, 2017, Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York This book is about a young woman in rural England during and after WWII who becomes involved with an American pilot whom she eventually … Continue reading →
A Rule Against Murder
A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 4, by Louise Penny, 2009, Audiobook narrated by Ralph Cosham released in 2016, Macmillan Audio This book is different from Penny’s prior books as the plot doesn’t take place in the village of Three … Continue reading →
The Hangman
by Louise Penny, 2010, Good Reads Books Although this book is a “Three Pines Mystery” that is investigated and solved by Chief Inspector Gamash, it is a departure from Louise Penny’s longer books in the serires. It’s only 87 pages … Continue reading →
Politics and Pasta: How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the tale
by Vincent “Buddy” Cianci, Jr., with David Fisher, 2011, Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press, New York I received this book as a Christmas present in 2011, shortly after it was published. I opened the present and then set it … Continue reading →
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild, 1998, Audiobook on cassette tapes narrated by Geoffrey Howard released in 2010, Books on Tape, Random House Audio This book is an indictment of the colonization of the Congo by King Leopold of Belgium. It recounts the … Continue reading →
The Cruelest Month
The Three Pines Mystery Series, Book 3, by Louise Penny, 2007, Audiobook narrated by Ralph Cosham, released in 2015, Macmillan Audio Once again Inspector Armond Gamash is thrown into another murder in the small Quebec town of Three Pines. This … Continue reading →
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver, 2022, Audiobook narrated by Charlie Thurston, HarperAudio I had high expectations for this book as it had won the Pulitzer Prize and it was being compared to Huck Finn and Catcher in the Rye. Although Kingsolver did … Continue reading →