by Peter May, 2009, Quercus, New York, London Occasionally I come across a book I really, really like and this is one of them. I particularly liked the author’s descriptive writing. His way of describing the surroundings is almost poetic … Continue reading →
by K. W. Garlick, 2016, Stillwater River Publications, Chepachet, RI I was given this book to read by a friend and it looked interesting as some of the story was set in Jamestown and Prudence Islands in Rhode Island. Alas, … Continue reading →
by Ronald H. Balson, 2015, St. Martin’s Griffin, New York This is a very interesting novel about a girl being abducted by her grandfather and the attempts to get her back from the West Bank in Israel. The book is … Continue reading →
by Douglas L. Wilson, 1998, Alfred A. Knopf, New York I had always eyed this book as it surely targeted a subject that I was interested in: the transformation of Abrahams Lincoln from a backwoods youth to the person who had … Continue reading →
by Lisa Scottoline, 2009, St. Martin’s Griffin, New York This is a story about a woman who adopts a young child and then finds out that the mother who gave up the child wasn’t the real biological mother, but that … Continue reading →
by Judy Blume, audiobook narrated by Kathleen McInerney, 2015, Random House Audio This is a novel based on three plane crashes that occurred in the city of Elizabeth, NJ, in the early 1950’s within the time span of a few … Continue reading →
by Helen Simonson, 2016, Random House, New York This novel centers on the experiences of a young woman who is trying to make her way in life just before WWI breaks out. The story has some interesting moments but the … Continue reading →
by Nathan Hill, 2016, a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York This book is pretty fascinating. It interweaves topics such as computer game addiction with the anti-war protests that occurred during the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, along … Continue reading →
by Andrea Levey, 2004, Picador Books, New York This book is about a man and a woman from Jamaica who married and then immigrated to England after WWII. It highlights the degree of racism that existed in England and the … Continue reading →
by Carl Hiaasen, audiobook read by Kirby Heyborne, 2014, Random House, LLC This is a very light weight novel about a girl who runs away to meet a guy she met on the internet and the subsequent search for her … Continue reading →