by Margaret Atwood, originally published in 1985, Audiobook read by Claire Danes, released in 2012, Audible Studios As we began listening to this audiobook, I initially didn’t think I was going to like it. The beginning of the book is … Continue reading →
by Julie Orringer, 2010, Kindle Edition, Random House LLC I read this book while on vacation overseas when I had some long airplane flights to read it. It is a long, long book (786 pages). I think it would have … Continue reading →
by Michael Ondaatje, narrated by Steve West, 2018, Random House Audio This is a story about a young after World War II in England who does not know why his mother and father abandoned him during the War. He gradually … Continue reading →
by Fredrik Backman, 2016, Washington Square Press This book is supposedly about a small hockey town in Sweden, but it’s much more than that. It is about how groups and families interact with one another when something really bad happens. … Continue reading →
by Peter May, 2016, Quercus, Reprint Edition This is the final novel in The Lewis Trilogy which is a series of mysteries that occur on the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides. This book is perhaps not quite as good … Continue reading →
by Tana French, 2018, Audiobook narrated by Paul Nugent, 2018, Penguin Audio This is a novel about a young man in Ireland who gets involved in a murder of one of his school mates. The book starts out with a … Continue reading →
by Yangsze Choo, 2019, Audiobook read by the author, Macmillan Audio This is a story that takes about a young girl in Malaysia and an even younger boy whose paths cross in a number of ways. There is also a … Continue reading →
by Tayari Jones, Audiobook narrated by Sean Crisden and Elsa Davis, 2018, Highbridge, a division of Recorded Books This is a novel about a black couple and their marriage which fell apart after the man was incarcerated for a rape … Continue reading →
by Della Owens, 2018, Kindle Edition, G.P. Putnam’s Sons This is a well-written book about a girl who grows up in a coastal area in North Carolina isolated from the rest of the nearby community. She eventually learns how to … Continue reading →
by Peter May, 2015, Kindle Edition This is a good book that follows up on the first book of the trilogy, but seems quite different from the first. It starts when a discovery is made of a partially mummified body … Continue reading →