Daily Archives: November 15, 2015

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 →