Reviews by Barbara H. (Richmond, IN)

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Tuesday Nights in 1980
Tuesday Nights in 1980
by Molly Prentiss
Spellbinding (12/30/2015)
Tuesday Nights in New York City in 1980 vividly delves into a lifestyle in a time and a place that most can only experience from reading. It is an exciting time in the lives of three main characters who have all come to New York to be a part of the art world.

Raul is the …more
Circling the Sun
Circling the Sun: A Novel
by Paula McLain
A Favorite (5/10/2015)
Beryl Markham grew up in an Africa she loved. Having lived her life beyond the societal constraints of the late 19220' and the 1930's, she was a brave and independent woman who eventually flew solo across the Atlantic. Paula McClain brings Beryl Markham to life in Circling …more
The Same Sky
The Same Sky
by Amanda Eyre Ward
The Same Sky (11/8/2014)
The Same Sky has two voices experiencing two very different problems. . Both voices, Carla a young teen from Honduras, and Alice, a married woman in Texas, are portrayed in such detail that the reader emotionally connects with each one. The book reflects so much that is of …more
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
A Surprise (6/1/2014)
I had not read anything by Anthony Doerr prior to this book. I simply picked it up because it looked interesting. I was very impressed. Almost every two pages switches from one main character, the blind French girl, to the other main character, Werner, the young German boy. …more
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
by Nancy Horan
A Second Book Success (11/11/2013)
When as a reader you have enjoyed an author's first book, Loving Frank, it is so pleasing to find the author has written a second book as well-written and enjoyable as her first. Under the Wide and Starry Sky was a surprise, not because it was good, but because it was about …more
Song of the Spirits
Song of the Spirits: In the Land of the Long White Cloud saga
by Sarah Lark
The Saga of Kura and Elaine (8/16/2013)
The size of the book was daunting at first until I began to read. Even if I had wanted to stop reading I could not. These two young women managed to live absolutely exciting lives and bring the reader along with them into two very different situations. The book, which takes …more
The Jericho Deception
The Jericho Deception
by Jeffrey Small
Dangerous Project (3/11/2013)
"The Jericho Project" by Jeffrey Small is an interesting read. It is both a thriller and a detailed search to create the Logos, a machine that produces a religious experience bordering on meeting with God. The book also involves a conspiracy to misuse this machine to …more
Eighty Days
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
by Matthew Goodman
Eighty Exceptional Days (12/30/2012)
Wow, did I enjoy this book. The author's research is thorough and his bibliography is lengthy and the information is delightful. The reader not only learns about Nellie Bly and her attempt to exceed the travel time of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty …more
Wild
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
A Shared Journey (9/25/2012)
I sent Wild to a friend who has done the Pacific Crest Trail. Wanting to know what the trip must have been like for her, I had to read it myself. I would say it is one of the most engaging books I have read this year.
Cheryl Strayed was wild and went to the wilds to …more
The Art Forger
The Art Forger
by B. A. Shapiro
The Art Forger (9/14/2012)
The Art Forger was a learning experience for this reader. The passion of the artist, the difficulty of attaining success, and the manipulation of the market are all here. Also demonstrated are the steps to authenticating a famous work. However, the learning had the added …more
Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones: A Novel
by Jesmyn Ward
Unpleasant Novel (5/22/2012)
The book is written by a Stanford graduate whose narrator is a 14-year old black girl from a poverty stricken background. Though the character uses poor grammar upon occasion her vocabulary is that of a Stanford graduate. Her comparison to Medea is pretentious and does …more
Beneath the Shadows
Beneath the Shadows
by Sara Foster
Shadows on the Moor (5/5/2012)
I read far too late three evenings in a row. The book is fascinating. It promises supernatural happenings, familial misbehavior, and murder. The setting itself, the North Yorkshire Moors, is compelling. After all, I know the mysterious moors well from Wuthering Heights. I …more
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
Behind the Beautiful Forever (1/5/2012)
Behind the Beautiful Forever is a factual narrative of some families and individuals living in Anniwadi, a slum in the Indian city of Mumbai. The names of the characters, the events are all actual, which is rather unusual in accounts of how people live.

It is a story aided …more
Across Many Mountains
Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom
by Yangzom Brauen
Across Many Mountains (8/7/2011)
Across Many Mountains is both a memoir and an introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, culture, and Chinese occupation. It tells the captivating story of a family escaping Tibet in fear of approaching Chinese soldiers.

It is truly a learning experience of the lifestyles of …more
Walking to Gatlinburg
Walking to Gatlinburg: A Novel
by Howard Frank Mosher
Puzzling (4/9/2011)
I found Walking to Gatlinburg both puzzling and exciting. I did not know whether to go back and read Pilgrim's Progress, which I still may do, or to consider the book's soul of darkness in the light of Heart of Darkness. I decided the subject best lent itself to the …more
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