Daily Archives: June 22, 2015

On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks 2015/ 416 pages Rating 8.5 – memoir Fun book, for the most part, quirky and slightly irreverent but mostly . Oliver Sacks is now 80 years old and had had a truly … Continue reading →

The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa 2000/405 pages rating: 9- contemp fiction I read this back in 2004 or so, I think, and enjoyed it, certainly remembered it, but one reading left me rather confused as to … Continue reading →

The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy 1889/  184 pages (novella) rating:  9 –  classic Russian This one is a reread – I recently rejoined the 19th Century reading  group to keep reading classics – Most of their choices are books I’ve not … Continue reading →