Monthly Archives: November 2015

The Rose Hotel: A Memoir of Secrets, Loss and Love by Rahimeh Andalibian 2012 / 328 pages (Kindle) Rating ___ / memoir (Published by National Geographic) Rahimeh Andalibian is a US citizen now,  a doctor of psychology  practicing systemic psychology and specializing … Continue reading →

The Lake House by Kate Morton 2015/ 512 pages read by Caroline Lee 21h 24m rating:  B /  historical crime-romance (literary?) Morton has 6 books out now,  a couple of them have been best sellers and she has a strong … Continue reading →

The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books by John Carey 2014/ 384 pages rating: 8.25 / biography-lit crit Carey is a highly acclaimed English literary critic, professor and writer in London.  This is a memoir of his going from a … Continue reading →

Down Among the Dead Men by Peter Lovesy 2015 / 384 pages read by Simon Prebble 10h 41m rating: (15th in the Peter Diamond series) I’d not read any of Peter Lovesly’s books prior to this one  and I enjoyed … Continue reading →

Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham 2015 / 352 pages read by Mark Deakins 11h 18m rating A+ /  legal thriller Sebastian Rudd defends the indefensible – those criminals who have no other recourse, the “untouchables,”  the bottom of the barrel, … Continue reading →

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzia with Christina Lamb as a contributor 2013 / 352 pages read by  Archie Panjabi 9h 55m Rating:  7.5 At first I felt … Continue reading →

Rabbit Run by John Updike 1960 / 336 pages read by Arthur Morey 12h 5m Rating:  5 / classic 20th century angst I got it read – been tempting me for years solely because it’s a series of books  although … Continue reading →

Monsieur Lecoq by Émile Gaboriau 1869 / 316 pages Rating:  A+ / classic crime  police procedural – I guess it’s the history embedded in classic lit which gets to me –  this is the first full length detective novel of the … Continue reading →

The Inner Circle by Brad Melzer 2011 / 544 pages read by Scott Brick 14h 15m rating  B  /  political thriller The Inner Circle was first published in 2011 and  it takes place in the not too distant future. I bought the book because … Continue reading →

Evan Harrington by George Meredith 1860 / 427 pages rating  8 / classic satire This is a bit outside my comfort zone – I can read late Victorian lit very nicely thank you,  but when it comes to the earlier … Continue reading →

Sweetland by Michael Crummey 2014/ 336 pages read by John Lee 9h 12m Rating: 7 /  literary survival fiction Moses Sweetland’s family was among the original settlers on Sweetland Island – a fictional place off the coast of Newfoundland  – … Continue reading →

An Ice Cream War by William Boyd 1982 / 397 pages rating: 7  / historical fiction Set in the summer of  1914 in German East Africa,  now Burundi, Rwanda and parts of Tanzania,  a couple ex-patriot neighbors, one US one … Continue reading →

The Attorney by Steven Martini 1999 / 448 pages read by Eric Bergmann 11h 5m rating B- / legal thriller The story started out so well – rich old grandpa Jonah and grandma Mary  Hale have custody of their granddaughter … Continue reading →

The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe by Michael Pye 2014/403 pages (K) Rating:  8.5  / European history Oh I have been gone from reading nonfiction history for so long … Continue reading →

The Crossing by Michael Connelly 2015 / 400 pages read by Titus Welliver 9h 20m rating A+  / crime (#20 in the Harry Bosch series) I’ve read almost all of the Harry Bosch police procedural series over the years – … Continue reading →

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes 2009 / 640 pages read by Bronson Pinchot 21h 10m rating:  9.5   / literary war I wasn’t even going to read this book because I tend not to like war books – even so-called “anti-war” books … Continue reading →

A Killer Among Us by Charles Bosworth 1998 / 460 pages read by Kevin Pierce 16h 14m rating:  C / True Crime (Elizabeth/Rick Decaro case) I succumbed –  years ago I read quite a lot of True Crime – no … Continue reading →