contemporary american

Generations

What brings us back to ourselves and binds us to those we love? The signal fires … of home and …

#MeToo

Boarding schools are, it would seem, an abundant setting for story. I suppose islands are, too, for nearly the same …

Cloud Cuckoo Land

I hesitated to read this mainly because of it’s literal heft … reading in bed with this was not easy. …

Back to the beginning …

In this latest installment of character Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout returns us to the beginning of the global upheaval when …

Remember 2017? That angsty post-election trauma? This novel brings it all back through the lives of cousins and their family …

"August Snow"

my take: This was recommended by Nancy Pearl (Book Lust) recently. She mentioned that in these unsettling times in the …

"The Ramblers"

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

The Book of Jonah

my take:  In this is a modern re-telling of the Biblical book, Tarshish and Ninevah are replaced with New York …