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The Fortune Hunter
The Fortune Hunter
by Daisy Goodwin
Royal Hunting (5/4/2014)
Having seen the Winterhalter portrait of Sisi, as the Empress of Austria and Hungary, it is impossible to ever forget her. Daisy Goodwin has captured the glamour and mystery of the woman and brought us her story during her first year fox hunting with the aristocracy in …more
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
War and peace (2/12/2014)
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is receiving marvelous reviews and accolades from other authors. It is on numerous top ten lists. It deserves every good thing that can be said about it. It is an amazing tour de force. It should be required reading.
As the Olympics raises …more
Happier at Home
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life
by Gretchen Rubin
Happy all the time (1/6/2014)
J.D. Salinger said, "what I like best is a book that's at least funny once in awhile....What really knocks me out is a book that when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call (her) up on the phone …more
Visitation Street
Visitation Street
by Ivy Pochoda
Ghosts (9/30/2013)
Ivy Pochoda uses words as though she invented them for the sole purpose of telling us a story so riveting that our eyes can't leave the page. As perfect sentence follows perfect sentence, Red Hook becomes the readers only reality. The characters step out of the shadows and …more
Last Train to Istanbul
Last Train to Istanbul
by Ayse Kulin
Catch this train (9/16/2013)
In the 7th century BC, the leaders of Eastern Anatolia gave the people they conquered freedom of faith. In 1492, the Jews expelled from Spain were invited to come to Constantinople to live. The people of Turkey have embraced all different creeds. Ayse Kulen has taken one …more
Queen's Gambit
Queen's Gambit: A Novel
by Elizabeth Fremantle
Another Queen (8/27/2013)
The last queen of Henry VIII, Katherine Parr, is such a relative unknown that we can read of her daily life, of her musings, her fears, her friendships, without that jarring note of thinking the author may be wrong about that. Elizabeth Fremantle has created a full, three …more
Lookaway, Lookaway
Lookaway, Lookaway
by Wilton Barnhardt
Lookaway, reader (6/24/2013)
I found this book to be disturbing in so many ways. The women in the book are portrayed as despicable in so many different ways, none of which I found to be humorous. I was reminded of the words of Dan Ackroyd to Jane Curtain on Saturday Night Live where he called her "Jane, …more
In the Shadow of the Banyan
In the Shadow of the Banyan: A Novel
by Vaddey Ratner
Marvelous book (6/12/2013)
From the first page, I was drawn in by the lyrical writing of the author and mesmerized as the narrator, eight year old Raami, remembered the years when the Khmer Rouge destroyed individuals, towns and villages, and a whole country. The cruelties of the Organization, as the …more
The Plum Tree
The Plum Tree
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Good first effort (1/26/2013)
The author has attempted to take the personal anecdotes and information she gained from relatives who lived in Germany during World War II and weave them together with the historical information regarding the Holocaust. She has described some of the most mundane tasks of …more
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