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A Stone Barrington Novel, by Stuart Woods, 2008, Read by Tony Roberts, 2008, Penguin Audio I listened to this in the car on the way to Florida this October. I don’t have much to recommend it other than it passed … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Fiction
The Hour I First Believed
by Wally Lamb, 2008, HarperCollins Books, New York This is a book about a married couple who were employed as a teacher and a school nurse at Columbine High School when the massacre occurred. It focuses on the trauma it … Continue reading →
The Cat who Went to Paris
by Peter Gethers, 1991, Fawcett Columbine, New York Ye, Gads! Another cat story! This cat is the most amazing animal that ever lived. It’s owner can let it run loose on the rooftops of Paris with nary a concern that … Continue reading →
Body and Soul
by Frank Conroy, 1993 This is a wonderful book to experience. It is about a person who grew up in very poor circumstances but had a talent for music and the piano. Conroy pours an incredible amount of detail regarding … Continue reading →
The Reavers
by George MacDonald Fraser, 2007 This is a rollicking story of 16th century thugs, damsels, royalty, heros involved in political intrigue in the vicinity of the Scottish border. Fraser brings the style that made his Flashman series so popular to … Continue reading →
Term Limits
by Vince Flynn, 1997 This is a very good thriller about assassinations of politicians in Washington, D.C. The characters are pretty good, although a tad bit overdone in some cases, and the plot moves right along and is, for the … Continue reading →
Ten Thousand Islands
by Randy Wayne White, Read by Ron McLarty, 2000 by Randy Wayne White, 2005 by Recorded Books, LLC. This is another mystery/thriller set in South Florida. There is a lot of information regarding the early history of the area, including … Continue reading →
Girls of Riyadh
by Rajaa Alsanea, Read by Kate Reading, 2005 This is a book that was supposedly made from a series of e-mails that a woman in Riyadh wrote to a mailing list about several of her friends and their relationships with … Continue reading →
A Land Remembered, A Novel
by Patrick D. Smith, 1984 This is a lovely book about three generations of a family that settled in Florida just prior to the Civil War. The characters are interesting and the author keeps the pace going by including just … Continue reading →
The Walking Wind
by Tony Hillerman, Read by George Guidall, 2002 There is not much to say about this book. It is a typical Tony Hillerman work that combines a fairly good mystery, characters that are okay, a bit of romance, all positioned … Continue reading →