fiction

"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 …

"Every Exquisite Thing"

my take: “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”* Nanette and Alex meet through their encounter with …

"My Name is Lucy Barton"

my take: I borrowed this from the virtual library to read on my Kindle … not a super big fan …

"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 …

The Cleaner of Chartres

my take: This is a quiet novel that runs deep. Agnes, the cleaner, appears to be a blank slate upon …

The Fishermen

my take: The upbeat cover of this book is deceptive … it is a colorful but oh-so-woe-full tale behind this …

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 …

"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, …