The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, original publication 1951, Back Bay Books Paperback edition 2010, Little Brown and Company, New York This book, for some reason, was chosen by our men’s book club. It was interesting to go back … Continue reading →
A Commissario Brunetti Mystery, by Donna Leon, 2017, Audiobook narrated by David Colacci, Recorded Books This is a well-crafted mystery that unfolds very slowly. Commissario Brunetti tries to take a little time off to regroup by going to a relative’s … Continue reading →
by Matt Haig, 2020, Kindle Version, Viking This was an interesting book for me. It’s about a young woman whose life is a mess, so she attempts to end it by taking some pills. She didn’t, however, take enough and … Continue reading →
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway, 1939, Kindle Hemingway Library Edition, Simon and Schuster This book is our book club’s selection for January of 2022. It was a difficult book for me to get into. The first 200 … Continue reading →
The Lion, by Nelson DeMillie, audiobook narrated by Scott Brick, 2010, Hachette Audio We listened to this book over three days while we drove from Rhode Island to Florida. I don’t have much to say about, either positive or negative, … Continue reading →
by Janet Skeslien Charles, 2021, Atria Books This is a novel that centers on the American Library in Paris before and during WWII. A young French girl gets a job at the library despite the objections of her father. The … Continue reading →
by Sinclair Lewis, 1922, with an afterword by Mark Schorer, a Signet Classic, published by the Penguin Group, New York We found an old paperback copy of Babbitt in our home and I decided to read it. The text of … Continue reading →
by Stuart Woods, 2008, Penguin Books, LTD I had read only two other books by Stuart Woods (Hot Mahogany and Two Dollar Bill) and I rated both of them 2.0 Stars. This one is quite a bit better and held … Continue reading →
by Robert B. Parker, 2002, G.P. Putnams Sons This is book in the Spencer for Hire series. It is not worthy of a revue. The plot is thin, the characters are all caricatures, and the ending is unfulfilling. It is … Continue reading →
by Morris L. West, 1971, Compania Financiera Perlina, S.A. This book is a hard one to review. I loved the writing. The setting of the book is in the Hebrides and we had read the Lewis Trilogy (The Black House, … Continue reading →