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 →
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 →
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 →
by Charles Frazier, Read by Will Patton, 2006. This story is about the life of an individual who moved west to North Carolina as a youth in the early part of the nineteenth century and the subsequent events in his … Continue reading →
by Ian McEwan, Read by Steven Crossley, 2005 by Ian McEwan, 2005 by Recorded Books, LLC This book has some positive qualities such as the depiction of the main character. He is very believable and one can relate to his … Continue reading →
by Ken Follett, 1989 This is an interesting book, and a quick read, about the building of a cathedral in medieval England. It is well researched and provided a lot of insight regarding how life was in those times. Follet was … Continue reading →
by Leo Tolstoy, Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Wow! This one took me over four months to read. I wasn’t sure whether I would ever get through it. The issue wasn’t that it was so long; … Continue reading →
by Lilian Jackson Braun, Read by George Guidall, 2002 by Lilian Jackson Braun, 2002 by Recorded Books, LLC Since I am a cat person (we have three cats), I always wondered what these books were like. We had a long … Continue reading →
by Ruth Rendell, Read by Barbara Rosenblat We listened to this recorded book on a long road trip. The writing is fairly decent and the characters are pretty well developed. The book is billed as a mystery, however, and its downfall … Continue reading →
by Cormac McCarthy, 2006, Vintage International, New York This book is a very quick read and it really moves along. There are a few places in the book, however, that are a bit hard to follow. The villain of the … Continue reading →