Taste
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci In this culinary memoir, Stanley Tucci’s life experiences, from his childhood in Westchester County, New York, to film sets around the world, […]
Guilt by Association
Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark I also read the new mystery from first time novelist Marcia Clark (yes, that Marcia Clark.) Marcia is not the most gifted writer (first […]
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 […]
Still Here
Still Here, The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch by Alexandra Jacobs The talented Broadway singer, actress, and comedian Elaine Stritch was the definition of her own worst enemy. […]
Standing in the Shadows
Standing in the Shadows a DCI Banks novel by Peter Robinson Alice Poole was murdered in 1980; the case remains unsolved. Decades later, DCI Banks and his team investigate the […]
Spain in Our Hearts
Spain in Our Hearts, Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 by Adam Hochschild Sum total of my knowledge of the Spanish Civil War: 1-Guernica (the painting not the city) […]
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 […]
The Priory
The Priory by Dorothy Whipple For Jane Austen fans! Although not as subtle as dear Jane’s works, The Priory, published in 1939, will appeal to many Austen fans. Christine and […]
Someone at a Distance
Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple The best birthday gift, a box of books! This pretty box of books is from U.K. based Persephone Books. If you are not […]
Snowdrift
Snowdrift by Helene Tursten In Snowdrift, Embla Nyström, a Detective Inspector with the Gothenburg, Sweden, police force, investigates the deaths of two well-known criminals and a cold case involving a […]
Snow
Snow by John Banville a/k/a Benjamin Black About a decade ago, acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville wrote the first in a series of literary crime novels under the pseudonym Benjamin […]
QE II Mystery Novels
The QE II Novels by S.J. Bennett S.J. Bennett has written four (to date) novels featuring that amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II. As you can imagine, the novels are very […]
Shy
Shy, the Alarmingly Outspoken Memoir of Mary Rodgers by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green Mary Rodgers (1931-2014) was the composer of the musical Once Upon a Mattress, which launched the […]
The Hare with Amber Eyes
The Hare with Amber Eyes, A Family’s Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal Telling the story of the Ephrussis family through their exquisite collection of Japanese netsuke […]