Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson First published in 1938, Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day is a completely silly, dated, and beguiling novel. Middle-aged Miss […]
March
March by Geraldine Brooks I was not especially eager to read my book club’s recent selection, March by Geraldine Brooks for two reasons. First, it is a Civil War novel. […]
Major Pettigew’s Last Stand
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson I love an English village, or rather I love the English village as it is portrayed in certain novels. Whether such a place […]
Loving Frank
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan In 1903, Mamah Borthwick Cheney and her husband commissioned their neighbor Frank Lloyd Wright to design a home for them in Oak Park, IL. By […]
Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House
Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House by Meghan Daum Who can resist this title? Haven’t we all felt this way at one time or another? And […]
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 […]