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"The Ramblers"

my take: As I was sorting through book piles, I came across this HARDCOVER book and asked hubby where & …

"Doc"

my take: This took a bit to get into and was well worth the wading at the outset. A combination …

The Little Paris Bookshop

my take: This book is a bit of an enigma. I really wanted to love this. Bookstore, Paris. What more …

"At The Water’s Edge"

my take: From the inexhuastible source of World War II comes a tale from the edge of Loch Ness. A …

"Good on Paper"

my take: I picked this book based on a review that mentioned it was about language/translation which seemed like a …

"The Memory of Light"

my take: Thank you, Francisco X. Stork for writing this book. I cried when I read your author’s note at …

"How to Be Here"

my take: Part memoir, part pep talk, Rob Bell’s new book feels like he’s chatting with you giving you great …

"Why We Get Fat"

my take: This is a treatise on why the calories in/calories out paradigm that is touted by medical experts, exercise …

"Our Souls at Night"

my take: I read this slim, quiet novel in two doses. It’s the tender love story of two aging, widowed …

"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands"

my take: I read this shortly after I read Station Eleven, so at first it seemed like another post-apocolyptic story, …

"All My Puny Sorrows"

my take: Sometimes one picks a book by the reviews on the front covers – this is one of those …

"Fates and Furies"

my take: The title and the cover design give great clues about this read: it’s a wild ride. The Fates …

"The Things They Carried"

my take: Written in pseudo-memoir style, this novel reads like a collection of short stories, and after listening to the …

"My Brilliant Friend"

my take: A tale of two young girls in 1950’s Naples in a rough neighborhood of poverty, violence, and secrets. …