Monthly Archives: August 2018

This had been tempting me since it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction getting rave reviews … so … I got it.   I don’t keep an active TBR shelf – I keep wish lists at Amazon and Audible and … Continue reading →

Oh I do enjoy Jane Gardam and have read several, not quite all, of her books –  God on the Rocks,  The Queen of the Tamborine, Old Filth, The Man in the Wooden Hat, and Last Friends.  plus The People of … Continue reading →

On a Daily Special from Audible,  I grabbed it because I really was interested in North Korea a couple years ago –  prior to the new foreign relations and other political messes – and read several books.   Although my … Continue reading →

The title is Fascism:  A Warning but the focus is,  as implied,  on Trump.  The book is basically a history of fascism from the days of WWII to our own which includes a tour through various fascist regimes of the 20th … Continue reading →

It was on sale and I guess I’m glad I got it and read it,  but it is a bit long for what it offers – it starts out great but gets lost in too many generalities.   Sheryl Sandberg … Continue reading →

Back to some of my current events and political reading and now,  having finished,  ready for another fiction. lol Facts and Fears is  authored by a former  Director of National Intelligence and comes by way of  high recommendations from various … Continue reading →

I got a bit re-energized about crime novels so I’m continuing to  read them. I picked this one up on the recommendation of a friend.  It wasn’t exactly what I was expecting so it took me awhile to get into … Continue reading →

I read this again slowly along with the Allnonfiction group discussion –   I’m sure I didn’t really get it the first time – for some reason.   There are three strands which are really only loosely connected although they … Continue reading →

A couple decades ago a good teacher friend recommended Lisa Scottoline so I read one and wasn’t too impressed but I wasn’t reading crime novels at the time – I think I read one of her Rosatta novels.  One Perfect … Continue reading →

Still in the mood for something else – don’t know what –  trying this and that – I love the setting here,  northern Minnesota woods –  I’ve visited many times since childhood but never lived there although my dad was … Continue reading →

It really took me awhile to pick a book this time – I thought maybe I’d gone into a slump but finally …  half-heartedly maybe …. I picked up a good old crime novel which had been  tempting me a … Continue reading →

I started to read Auster’s most recent novel last summer,  2017,  but it got so boring I put it down thinking I’d pick it back up when the Booker Group had it scheduled.  I’d got to about 25%,   page … Continue reading →

I never would have found this little gem on my own but thanks to reading groups … Published in 1945 but the book still in print (or again – ?) so therefore a classic, as opposed to being just an … Continue reading →

This is yet another book about Trump’s fiasco of a presidency (I’m fascinated for some reason but I need breaks between books.)    The difference here is that it’s by a solid Republican who is interested in the strategy.   … Continue reading →

Thanks to reading Snap by Belinda Bauer  (because it was on the recently released Man Booker Long List for 2018) I thought I’d look into other books by her – she has several priors.    One looked interesting and I … Continue reading →

I read (and listened to) this last night –  it’s a  very short  but excellent  warning about where the West is headed internationally if we don’t change our ways.  Most of it is about what the West should be doing … Continue reading →

This is just to take a break from thinking –  it’s a historical mystery,  first of a series,  and rather fun.   It takes place in western China,  on the eastern edge of Tibet,  in 1708.   An exiled traveler … Continue reading →