The Lion Women of Tehran
by Marjan Kamali, 2024, Gallery Books My wife and several women in our community read this book and said it was very good. I decided to give it a try and thought it might be okay, but that it was … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Fiction
The Chemist
by Stephenie Meyer, 2016, Audiobook narrated by Ellen Archer, Hachette Audio When I started reading this book, I thought it looked promising. It’s about a woman (called Alex for most of the book) who is working for a government agency … Continue reading →
Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Book 1)
by Anthony Horowitz, 2009, Audiobook narrated by Nathaniel Parker, Listening Library This book is categorized as a “children’s book”, but it definitely is not that. Horowitz had mentioned his Alex Rider books frequently in his Hawthorne detective novels so I … Continue reading →
Horse
by Geraldine Brooks, 2024, Penguin Books This is an interesting and well-written novel about a thoroughbred horse called Lexington who lived in the middle of the nineteenth century. Brooks based the book on a the horse that was declared the … Continue reading →
Close to Death (Book 5 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
by Anthony Horowitz, 2024, Audiobook narrated by Rory Kinnear, Harper Audio This novel is a bit different from the preceding four as it doesn’t cover a current crime being investigated by Hawthorne. Horowitz has committed to delivering five Hawthorne books … Continue reading →
The Twist of the Knife (Book 4 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
by Anthony Horowitz, 2022, Audiobook narrated by Rory Kinnear, Harper Audio This book is a bit different in that the author, Horowitz, isn’t investigating a murder with Hawthorne, but is pursued as the primary suspect in a murder. When a … Continue reading →
Death at La Fenice
(Commissario Brunetti Book 1), by Donna Leon, 2012, Kindle Edition, Grove Press I was looking forward to the first book of the Commissario Brunetti series as I had read (or listened to) four of her books in the series previously. … Continue reading →
A Line to Kill (Book 3 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
by Anthony Horowitz, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Rory Kinnear, Harper Audio Horowitz gets an invitation to a book fair on a channel island and decides to attend with Harthorne where they will attempt to promote Horowitz’ first book (which hasn’t … Continue reading →
The Giver
by Lois Lowry, 1993, Ever After Kindle Edition, 2018, Houghton Mifflin Houghton Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company I came across this book due to an unusual circumstance. I went to a Brown alumni club Holiday party and … Continue reading →
The Armor of Light
by Ken Follett, 2023, Audiobook narrated by John Lee, Penguin Audio This is the fifth in the Kingsbridge series that chronicles the lives of the inhabitants of the fictional town of Kingsbridge in England. This book covers the years from … Continue reading →