Red Notice, A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder Bill Browder, a mild-mannered financier working in Russia, gets on the wrong side of the Putin government, and soon he and his plucky team are in a race for their lives in a virtually lawless ... [Continue Reading]
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter by Margareta Magnusson What a ghastly title! Only for you dear readers would I read this one since I know many of you are managing the downsizing of a relative’s home or your own. The ... [Continue Reading]
Killers ofthe Flower Moon by David Grann
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Of all the famous gangsters of the 1920s, the men behind the murders of more than two dozen Osage Indians in Oklahoma are certainly the least well known, although arguably the most despicable. In his new book, ... [Continue Reading]
NCN Book Club Reading List 2018
NCN Book Club Reading List 2018 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (F) The World’s Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne (M) Red Notice by Bill Browder (NF) The Ninth House by Alice McDermott (F) The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (F) Killers of the Flower Moon by ... [Continue Reading]
Grant by Ron Chernow
Grant by Ron Chernow I raced through this book rather like um, Sherman through Georgia! At a daunting 900 plus pages, the biggest challenge is picking it up! Prior to reading Chernow’s tome, I knew zero about Grant the general or Grant the president. This is due to my lack of interest in the ... [Continue Reading]
What Unites Us by Dan Rather
What Unites Us by Dan Rather With a Mt. Rushmore visage honed from years of delivering the news with a calm expression and a soothing baritone, Dan Rather is the quintessential 20th C TV newsman. (The 21st C newsperson has a different style!) Rather was in town recently promoting his new book, ... [Continue Reading]
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah The title of this memoir by Trevor Noah, a hugely successful South African comedian and the host of The Daily Show, refers to the fact that his birth was evidence of a criminal offense, the union between a white man and a black ... [Continue Reading]
Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard Do we really need another biography of Winston Churchill? Well, yes, when it is written by talented Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic. In Hero of the ... [Continue Reading]
by J.D. Vance
Hillbilly Elegy, A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J. D. Vance Hillbilly Elegy is a memoir by J. D. Vance, a thirty-one year old self-described “hillbilly” from Kentucky. After a stint in the Marines, Yale Law School, and Silicon Valley, Vance hardly qualifies as a hillbilly ... [Continue Reading]
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore When my friend Ginna gave me this book (non-fiction), I was a bit mystified. Not having read comic books as a child, I didn’t know anything about Wonder Woman (Linda Carter notwithstanding), and the synopsis on the back cover of the book was ... [Continue Reading]