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Raising Hare
Raising Hare: A Memoir
by Chloe Dalton
Lovely Tale (1/29/2025)
Raising Hare is a beautifully written book about a woman's unexpected encounter with a wild hare (a leveret), and her experience with its care. Ms Dalton is remarkably responsible and thoughtful about how she does this, trying everything possible to allow it to remain wild. …more
Girl Falling
Girl Falling: A Novel
by Hayley Scrivenor
Story Falling (9/12/2024)
This book was an easy read – it flowed, it moved, the writing was interesting and well-crafted. The problem for me was the incredulity of the premise of the big issue that kept the protagonist making bad decisions. It was hard to believe the motivating factor for her …more
The Fertile Earth
The Fertile Earth: A Novel
by Ruthvika Rao
A sweeping story (7/15/2024)
I enjoyed this book very much, because of its sweeping story line and its presentation of a different country, a different world. I've been to India, but a couple of visits there don't compare in the least to the depth of descriptions and the details that Ms Rao offered up. …more
The Divorcees
The Divorcees
by Rowan Beaird
Hoped for more (12/2/2023)
It's an interesting part of history – when women had to establish residency in Nevada in order to obtain divorces, and boarding ranches sprung up to meet this need. I had hoped for more than what this book offered – more history, more character development, more upstart …more
Panther Gap
Panther Gap: A Novel
by James A. McLaughlin
Wild but oddly, kind of believable (4/24/2023)
First of all, the book is the kind I like to read - fast paced, interesting, weird, and surprising, with no boring sentences. The plot is wildly imaginative, and more than a bit woo-woo, but it was presented so matter-of-factly, or perhaps so well written, that it was easy …more
Sisters of the Lost Nation
Sisters of the Lost Nation
by Nick Medina
Extremes - good and bad (12/10/2022)
First of all, I admire anyone who can write a book, so kudos to Mr. Medina. There were some very interesting aspects, regarding reservation life and legal jurisdictions on the res, for example. And of course the main topic, the disappearance and harm inflicted on native …more
The Immortal King Rao
The Immortal King Rao: A Novel
by Vauhini Vara
What a Book! (4/28/2022)
This book packs in so much – a complex storyline, an apocryphal message and many familiar existential questions. What an interesting and really original story! There are some very heavy and essential comments about what humanity is doing with our time on this earth. There …more
On a Night of a Thousand Stars
On a Night of a Thousand Stars
by Andrea Yaryura Clark
Easy to read, but… (2/27/2022)
I am interested in this complex and brutal time in Argentina's history, so I was looking forward to reading this novel. It was certainly readable, but I prefer some subtlety in what I read. The romantic relationships were presented in extremes, as if the author had to hit …more
The Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet
The Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet: A Novel
by Maureen Gibbon
A Magical Glimpse Into the Painter (8/7/2021)
This "memoir" is a fascinating peek into the life of the French painter Édouard Manet. I enjoyed looking up references to the paintings and people mentioned. Everything was real and had interesting histories, so it was like reading two books at once – this memoir, and then …more
Ruthie Fear
Ruthie Fear: A Novel
by Maxim Loskutoff
Excellent but for the ending (7/5/2020)
Ruthie Fear was a compelling story, written in a style I really like - short sentences, harsh truths, often achingly beautiful. Maxim Luskutoff has quite an imagination, writing from the point of view of a girl who lives in poverty almost off the grid, whose mother left …more
The Stone Girl
The Stone Girl: A Novel
by Dirk Wittenborn
A Topical Page Turner (4/14/2020)
What a fun read - no downtime, nothing boring, all fascinating characters and action and plot twists. Wittenberg has given us a creative story that is far-fetched but with some imagination, could maybe be plausible. The characters are all extremes which make them …more
The In-Betweens
The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna
by Mira Ptacin
In depth book on an interesting topic (12/3/2019)
I am fascinated by the invisible, the forces that we can't see (communication with those who have passed, ESP, clairvoyance, premonitions, intuition, e.g.) Some pooh-pooh them; I consider them energies and powers that are accessible, but most of us have gotten a long way …more
Yale Needs Women
Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant
by Anne Gardiner Perkins
Appreciation for The Inside Story (7/30/2019)
As a woman who entered Yale in its 4th year of coeducation, I am most likely biased in my appreciation for this book. But even readers who have nothing to do with Yale might value this inside story of a venerable institution, terribly homogeneous, struggling to decide its …more
The Volunteer
The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz
by Jack Fairweather
A Timely Warning (6/13/2019)
This was quite a piece of work. Mr. Fairweather used an original source, hidden to the larger world until 1989 – the journals of Witold Pilecki, a Polish nationalist who volunteered to be captured and imprisoned in order to report back on the mysteries of Auschwitz. It was …more
The Kinship of Secrets
The Kinship of Secrets
by Eugenia Kim
Wow. Lots going on (11/26/2018)
Ms Kim covers a lot of ground in The Kinship of Secrets. The recurring themes are family and secrets (the title was well chosen!) The background and story line are very interesting, especially for someone without much knowledge of South Korean history. The author helps that …more
Red, White, Blue
Red, White, Blue
by Lea Carpenter
Spare is great (7/22/2018)
The alternating story lines and the spare prose in Red, White, and Blue kept my interest, to the point of fascination. Carpenter provided some insight into the workings of undercover and CIA operations, which I assume are largely true – they certainly seemed plausible. What …more
French Exit
French Exit
by Patrick deWitt
Not sure what to think... (3/5/2018)
French Exit was entertaining, light, strange, funny, odd. I haven't read the Sisters Brothers, but I will, if only to help me determine what I think about DeWitt as an author. The dialogue in French Exit was funny, in the total frankness and lack of self-consciousness of …more
The Days When Birds Come Back
The Days When Birds Come Back
by Deborah Reed
Mistakes, Flaws and Redemption (12/18/2017)
This book is filled with pain and mistakes and examples of how to live honestly and well, as well as badly and without truth. The characters are flawed and fascinating and frustrating. There are no wasted words, not on the part of the characters, nor by the author. It was a …more
The French Girl
The French Girl
by Lexie Elliott
Can't Wait for More (9/23/2017)
The French Girl is a page turner. Ms. Elliott's writing is clear, interesting and intelligent – no redundancies, no apologies or fence-sitting. She uses lots of dialogue, thus letting the characters speak for themselves. We learn who they are from their own voices, as we …more
If We Were Villains
If We Were Villains
by M. L. Rio
Theater Within (3/13/2017)
This is an easy book to get into and stay with, as long as you pay attention to the characters in the beginning. There is certainly plenty of drama in the plot, but as with any good drama, the characters drive the story. It is an interesting setup - theater students putting …more
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