The Night Tiger
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 →
Tag Archives: Fiction
An American Marriage: A Novel
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 →
Where the Crawdads Sing
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 →
The Lewis Man: The Lewis Trilogy
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 →
The Secret Servant
by Daniel Silva, 2007, Audiobook narrated by Phil Gigante, Brilliance Audio I was very disappointed in this book. I was expecting a suspenseful thriller that would have some unexpected twists and turns. What I got was a terrorist kidnapping of … Continue reading →
The Husband’s Secret
by Liane Moriarty, 2013, Audiobook narrated by Caroline Lee, Penguin Audio This book is about three women who live in Australia and how they are affected by the murder of a young girl many years ago. The book is well-written … Continue reading →
I Am Pilgrim
by Terry Hayes, Atria/Emily Bestler Books, Kindle version, Simon and Shuster Digital Sales, Inc. This book is a thriller but it is long. The author provides quite a bit of detailed background about every move the main character and his nemesis … Continue reading →
The Underground Railroad: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead, 2016, Kindle Version, Published by Anchor, sold by Random House, LLC This book is about a young slave girl who escapes from a plantation in Georgia via the “underground railway.” The book, although it is clearly fiction, … Continue reading →
The Enemy
by Lee Child, 2004, Audiobook narrated by Dick Hill, Billiance Audio I liked this book as it depicted the main character, Jack Reacher, as a deep, multi-layered individual. He is involved, not only with a conspiracy on the part of some … Continue reading →
Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan, 2009, Algonquin Books This is a story of a white family in the Mississippi Delta area and their lives as they move onto some property they purchased shortly after WWII. It centers on race relations with their … Continue reading →