Friends of the Museum
Friends of the Museum by Heather McGowan Recently when buying a book at my local bookstore, the clerk said, as she cheerfully took my credit card, “It [ my purchase] […]
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 […]
The Diary of a Bookseller
The Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell In 2001, Shaun Bythell bought a second-hand bookshop in Wigtown, a tiny town located on a peninsula […]
The Curse of Pietro Houdini
The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller In the early days of the Allied invasion of Italy in WWII, 14-year-old orphan Massimo takes refuge in the Benedictine abbey […]
The Cookbook Collector
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman Inspired by Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility, The Cookbook Collector is the story of the Bach (Dashwood) sisters who work and reside in pre […]
The Burgess Boys
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout I loved this book, which is surprising since I couldn’t finish Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Olive Kitteridge. Partially set in gloomy as ever Maine, […]
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman I do not read romance novels, but I made an exception for The Bookish Life of Nina Hill as (1) my […]
The Best of Everything
The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe Of all the things I missed during the darkest days of the pandemic, browsing in a bookstore was near the top. The “suggested […]
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman If you are a Bridgerton or Georgette Heyer fan, then you will enjoy The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies, a Regency […]
Calling Invisible Women
Calling Invisible Women by Jeanne Ray One morning former journalist and unenthusiastic gardening columnist Clover Hobart finds herself inexplicably invisible. Not just unnoticed, a state familiar to all females over […]
Seating Arrangements
Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead There is no such thing as a wedding without its share of minor or major catastrophes. Winn Van Meter’s daughter’s wedding has both. In this […]
The All of It
The All of It by Jeannette Haien The All of It is the 145 page novel famously rescued from the dust bin by author Ann Patchett. Well, not literally the […]
Sisters of Fortune
Sisters of Fortune by Jehanne Wake Decades before the “Dollar Princesses” like Consuela Vanderbilt stormed British society, there were the Caton sisters of Maryland. The Caton sisters were descendants of […]
Still Life with Bread Crumbs
Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen I’ve been a fan of Anna Quindlen’s work for years. I was an avid reader of her Pulitzer Prize-winning column for The […]
Someone
Someone by Alice McDermott Alice McDermott, a long time chronicler of the Irish American experience, has written the moving story of Marie Commeford, a short sighted girl from Brooklyn. Written […]