The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Elegance of The Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery If you wondered why you studied Liberal Arts in college rather than something more practical like engineering or ceramics, the French novel […]
Crossing to Safety
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner With so many new books to read, it is rare that I re-read a novel. However, for the second time in twenty years, I […]
How Hard Can It Be?
How Hard Can It Be? By Allison Pearson One of my favorite novels of 2003 and maybe the entire decade was I Don’t Know How She Does It featuring working […]
The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Society
The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows GLPPS is a charming novel of 1946 London and Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. London based […]
Heartburn
Heartburn by Nora Ephron If you haven’t read Ephron’s hysterical first novel, a thinly disguised account of her marriage and subsequent divorce from the Washington Post journalist Carl Bernstein, I […]
Good Evening, Mrs. Craven
Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes I am always looking for a good Bedside Table Book (BTB), so I was pleased that my pretty box from […]
Gold
Gold by Chris Cleave Kate and Zoe have been competitors in the sport of track cycling for years. At age thirty-two, the women train for their final Olympic Games. The […]
Free Food for Millionaires
Free Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee How do you select a good read? Recommendations from friends and book reviews are two popular sources. But sometimes nothing beats a […]
Foster
Foster by Claire Keegan Foster by the Irish author Claire Keegan is the perfect book club read as it is only 62 pages (no one can claim they did not […]
Fever
Fever, A Novel of Typhoid Mary by Mary Beth Keane At the turn of the last century, Irish immigrant Mary Mallon, nicknamed Typhoid Mary by the press, was the first […]
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 […]
Eighteen Acres
Eighteen Acres by Nicolle Wallace Crimes of a different nature are exposed in Nicolle Wallace’s novel, Eighteen Acres, White House staffers’ name for their place of employment. Wallace, a bona […]
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk Recommended by my literary friend Laurel, this novel by Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Noble Prize […]
Diary of a Provincial Lady
Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield Published in 1930, Diary of a Provincial Lady is the gently satiric fictional diary of an upper-middle-class lady living in a Devonshire […]