Monthly Archives: April 2024

4-MA Group challenge for April is to read a book with one of the words, Tall, Big, Little, or Small in the title.  There are LOTS of books with those words in them, but up popped Small Mercies by Dennis … Continue reading →

On Animals by Susan Orlean2021/ 256 pagesRead by author 10hRating:  9  / “autobiography”?  (both read and listened) This is coming up for discussion in the All-Nonfiction Group at Groups.io starting May 1.  I neither nominated not vote for it, but it … Continue reading →

Stories my Father Told Me:From Warsaw, Moscow, Algeria, Siberia, Kazakistan, Dominican Republic by Dvora Treisman2024 / 196 pages – Kindle Rating 9.25 / memoir-travelogue  Quite a title there, no?  This is the book my book-group friend Dvora had been working on and … Continue reading →

Oh. I do enjoy these books, partly because in bygone days I enjoyed the TV series, but the books are fun in their own right, too.  The spin-off books by various authors (and Jessica Fletcher, of course) started in about … Continue reading →

I had to rate this marvelous book using a “category’ of ‘literary historical mystery.’ The history is generally good quality for contemporary fiction and the mystery is excellent. I rated the literary aspect because the history is so well used … Continue reading →

I’m old and haven’t been “hip” (?- lol)  for a long time so I had to really hunt to find out what the heck “AF”  (in the title) could mean but I think  I finally got it. It means “as … Continue reading →

I’ve now read this books two full times with some parts going for 3  times,  I was both listening to Klein read as I followed a long but sometimes just reading when I wanted a second go at a sentence … Continue reading →

It’s definitely a mystery –  the Prologue is the deposition of Genevieve Bainbridge concerning the involvement of her three granddaughters in a murder. Then in Chapter 1 the story jumps back to 1930 and the first murder where the body … Continue reading →

Okay – I hope I’m done with this book but I may have to check it again for a 3rd read because that’s when I study a book – not often but it does happen – (see Pale Fire by … Continue reading →

I read this back in February putting a blog post review up on March 1 – https://mybecky.blog/2024/03/01/natures-temples-by-joan-maloof/ but I only gave it a rating of 8.5 and that’s because it’s not in Audible format which is much easier for me … Continue reading →

I’d only read one of Baldwin’s book when I was told I should read The Fire Next Time (I can’t remember who told me that.)  The book I read was Native Son it was a long time ago.  The Fire Next Time … Continue reading →

Oh my, with some bookkeeping on my table to be done this weekend I think I’ll do this first – LOL.   In 6 Degrees of Separation, hosted by Kate at She Reads Novels we have the general category“Travel Books” selected … Continue reading →

This is Book 3 in Dan Winslows Danny Ryan series, but I’ll bet it’ll be called his “Cities”series. I’ve been a Wnslow fan since The Dawn Patrol (2008) and I the latest books were some stand-alone stories when they attracted … Continue reading →

Oh soooo fine to be back in John Lescroart’s Dismas Hardy and this has plenty of Abe Glitsky in there, too!   Long ago I listened the Dismas Hardy books at Audible  and I was going in order  but then, … Continue reading →