Thief River Falls
by Brian Freeman, 2020, Thomas & Mercer, Seattle This is a fast-paced thriller that is about a woman who has made it big as a writer of mystery thrillers, this one taking place in her home town of Thief River … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Fiction
Mila 18
by Leon Uris, 1961, Doubleday This book is fictional account of the Warsaw Uprising during WWII but it is based on journals that were kept by some of the Jews during that time. The Germans attempted to keep their actions … Continue reading →
Us Against You: A Novel
by Fredrik Backman, Audiobook narrated by Marin Ireland, 2018, Simon & Shuster Audio This novel is the sequel to Beartown, which is about a small town in Sweden obsessed with their hockey team. The prior novel focused on what happened to … Continue reading →
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 This book was our local book club’s choice for January of this year I thought it was an odd choice as most of the books we read are current non-fiction books. As I read the … Continue reading →
The Nickel Boys: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead, Audiobook narrated by J.D. Jackson, 2019, Random House Audio This is a dramatized novel about two boys who were incarcerated at a boy’s school in Northern Florida. The school was closed a number of years ago but … Continue reading →
The Silent Patient
by Alex Michaelides, 2019, Audiobook narrated by Jack Hawkins and Louise Brealey, Macmillan Audio The plot of this book is basically about a psychologist who want to treat a patient in a mental facility who was committed after being accused … Continue reading →
The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood, 2019, Nan A. Talese, Doubleday This book is the sequel to The Handmaiden which was written 34 years prior. The book appears to be in response to the overwhelming attention that the prior book has received in the … Continue reading →
Camino Island: A Novel
by John Grisham, 2017, Audiobook narrated by January LaVoy, Random House Audio This is an enjoyable novel about some of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s original manuscripts of his novels that are stolen from the Princeton University Library. They eventually end up … Continue reading →
Dear Edward: A Novel
by Ann Napolitano, 2020, Audiobook narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Random House Audio This is a story about a young boy who is the only survivor of a commercial plane crash. I had to get used to the way the book … Continue reading →
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry: A Novel
by Fredrik Backman, 2015, Narrated by Joan Walker, Simon and Schuster Audio This is a story about a girl whose grandmother dies from cancer. She was very close to her grandmother but didn’t know a lot about her grandmother’s early … Continue reading →