BookBrowse | Book Reviews and Recommendations

Reviews by Fred

Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy
by Melissa Milgrom

still life (1/13/2010)

I thought it was a great book. It brought back my own memories of the sights and smells of the shop which I hung out in when a boy.

Serena: A Novel
by Ron Rash

Serena (9/17/2009)

I enjoyed this book,and I'm looking forward to getting another of Mr.Rash's books.

The Secret Keeper
by Paul Harris

The Secret Keeper (3/9/2009)

Mr.Harris kept me riveted from start to finish. I learned a lot about that war in Sierra Leone.

Findings: Faye Longchamp Mysteries, No. 4
by Mary Anna Evans

findings (5/17/2008)

A very good page turner,so good that I'm ordering her other three books.

Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
by Roberto Saviano, translated by Virginia Jewiss

gomorrah (10/17/2007)

I found Roberto Saviano's book a fasinating trip into the Camorra underworld.He writes almost poeticly in parts.Extremly riviting throughout. A book that can be read in one setting.

Top Picks

Small Rain
by Garth Greenwell

At the beginning of Garth Greenwell's novel Small Rain, the protagonist, an unnamed poet in his ...
Daughters of Shandong
by Eve J. Chung

Daughters of Shandong is the debut novel of Eve J. Chung, a human rights lawyer living in New York. ...
The Women
by Kristin Hannah

Kristin Hannah's latest historical epic, The Women, is a story of how a war shaped a generation ...
The Wide Wide Sea
by Hampton Sides

By 1775, 48-year-old Captain James Cook had completed two highly successful voyages of discovery and...