by Isaac Asimov, 1950, 2004 Kindle edition, Bantam Dell, a Division of Random House, Inc. The book, written way back in 1950, is amazingly prescient, although Asimov’s timeline was a bit off. We are now in 2026 on the verge … Continue reading →
by Ian Rankin, 2009, Audiobook narrated by Peter Forbes, Hashette Audio. I enjoyed this book about the fictious inspector Malcolm Fox who works in the Complaints Department of the Edenborough, Scotland, police department. The purpose of the department is to … Continue reading →
by Dorothy Sayers,1926, Kindle eBook published in 2012 by Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller I listened to the first Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery, Whose Body, and had some trouble following it. Lord Peter seems to be all over the … Continue reading →
by Alexander McCall Smith, 2010, Audiobook narrated by Divina Porter, Recorded Books This book has some interesting characters but a weak plot. Isabel is asked to check out three applicants for a headmaster position at a local school. I estimate … Continue reading →
by Louise Penny, 2024, Audiobook narrated by Jean Brassard, MacMillan Audio This book is about a plot to poison the water supply of Montreal. Inspector Gamache manages to come to the rescue at the last minute and prevents the disaster … Continue reading →
by Bernhard Schlink, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Nathalie Buscombe, Harper Via I would classify this book as a swing and a miss. It’s about a woman in Pomerania before WWII who falls in love with an aristocrat. The parents of … Continue reading →
by Ian McEwan, 2007, Audiobook narrated by the author, Random House Audio This is another of a series of audiobooks by accomplished authors that have disappointed me. I have enjoyed McEwan’ books such as Atonement and Machines Like Me, but … Continue reading →
The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland, and Dion Graham, Penguin Audio This book was apparently about a young man who was released from a reform school in Nebraska and his younger brother … Continue reading →
by Truman Capote, published posthumously in 2005 from a manuscript discovered years after the author’s death in 1984, Modern Library, an Imprint of Random House I was visiting Mt. Dora, Florida, a month or so ago and we went into … Continue reading →
by Claire Keegan, 2021, Grove Press, New York This is a nice little book which I would classify as a novella as it has only 114 pages. It’s about a man in Ireland who delivers coal to his customers. He … Continue reading →