Fates and Furies
Fates and Furies by Lorna Groff At the conclusion of the first chapter of Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, I can already predict the storyline. A golden couple meet at […]
A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan A word of advice before you read Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad— it’s not a […]
Empresses Of Seventh Avenue
Empresses of Seventh Avenue by Nancy MacDonell American fashion designers are so ubiquitous that it is hard to imagine a time when there was no such creature. But prior to […]
Troublesome Young Men
Troublesome Young Men by Lynne Olson In hindsight, Winston Churchill’s election to Prime Minister in May 1940 looks inevitable. In fact, as Lynne Olson brilliantly describes in her book Troublesome […]
Madame Fourcade’s Secret War
Madame Fourcade’s Secret War by Lynne Olson I have read almost all of Lynne Olson’s World War II era nonfiction books. Although I have my favorites, Citizens of London and […]
Those Angry Days
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 by Lynne Olson In Those Angry Days, Olson returns to the pre-WWII period of her earlier non-fiction book Troublesome Young […]
Empress of the Nile
Empress of the Nile by Lynne Olson I love Lynne Olson’s nonfiction books, Citizens of London, Those Angry Days, Madam Fourcade’s Secret War. Like Madam Fourcade, Olson’s latest book, Empress […]
Empress Dowager Cixi
Empress Dowager Cixi, The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang The daughter of a government worker, Empress Dowager Cixi was not an heir to the throne of China […]
Empire of Pain
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe If you read Keefe’s 2017 article in The New Yorker about the slippery Sackler family, then you must read his book about the […]
Emma Lathen
Emma Lathen Mystery Novels When allergies got the best of me earlier this month, I holed up for a few days with a dozen Emma Lathen mystery novels featuring amateur […]