Dear American Airlines
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles An irresponsible husband, a drunk, and an unemployable poet and translator, Benjamin R. Ford will never be nominated for a distinguished citizen award. However, […]
Dead Wake
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson 100 years ago this month, while enroute from NYC to Liverpool, the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine […]
Dark Sacred Night
Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly Often a long running mystery series gets tired, but Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch novels are still fresh. In Dark Sacred Night, Detective Bosch, retired […]
Daddy’s Girl
Daddy’s Girl by Lisa Scottoline I consider myself an adventurous reader. I’ll read just about anything, and in desperate times have been known to finish books I didn’t even like. […]
Dead Land
Dead Land by Sara Paretsky After Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski and her goddaughter Bernie leave a raucous meeting of the South Lakefront Improvement Council (SLICK), they pass a homeless […]
David and Goliath
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell After hearing Malcolm Gladwell speak at Belmont last month (see March newsletter), I knew I would […]
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 […]