Author: elizabeth

Coup

Coup by Keel Hunt Once upon a time in a land far, far away, an evil governor was selling pardons for cash. Many bad men were to be released from […]

Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell When the review in The New York Times stated, “it is not unheard of for a novelist of exceptional talent to write a deliberately difficult […]

Clementine

Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell When you are married to a legend, you get short shrift in the great one’s biography. And if that legend […]

City of Girls

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert After that ridiculous Eat, Pray, Love, I removed author Elizabeth Gilbert from my reading lists, forever. But on the recommendation of a friend, I […]

City of Thieves

City of Thieves by David Benioff At first glance, a novel about two young men who meet in Leningrad during the Nazi siege sounds unpromising. Russian novels (about or by) […]

All Adults Here

All Adults Here by Emma Straub Astrid Strick is experiencing an unusual crisis of confidence. After a random traffic accident stirs up uncomfortable memories, the perennially poised and controlling sixty-eight-year-old […]

Citizens of London

Citizens of London by Lynne Olson Citizens of London is an account of the relationship between the Americans and British during WWII with an emphasis on the men who cultivated […]

Circe

Circe by Madeline Miller The witch Circe, a resident of the island of Aiaia and a rather minor persona in the pantheon of Greek gods and goddesses, is best known […]

Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie Like many rulers before her, Catherine the Great of Russia muscled her way into the job. A German born princess with no hereditary […]

Cahokia Jazz

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford The 1922 map of North America in the front pages of the novel Cahokia Jazz looks familiar, but there is an extra state located on […]