Author Archives: beckylindroos

The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps by Michael Blanding 2014 – 320 pages read by Sean Runnette – 8h 35m rating – 7.5  – history/crime I’d never heard of Forbes … Continue reading →

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan 2014 /334 pages (Kindle) rating: 9.5 / historical fiction I was warned this is a hard book to read due to the violence.  I’m allergic to graphic violence in war – … Continue reading →

Neuromancer by William Gibson 1984 / 288 pages read by Robertson Dean 10h 30m rating 8.5 / classic sci-fi (cyberpunk) I have had this book on my TBR (to be read) shelf for ages and ages.  Now that Gibson’s new … Continue reading →

Buddhism For Busy People: Finding Happiness In An Uncertain World by David Michie 2008 / 240 pages read by Nicholas Bell 6h 49m rating 6.5 / nonfiction/self-help-religion General principals of Tibetan Buddhism with the objective of being happy – I … Continue reading →

The Secret Place by Tana French  (Ireland) 2014/529 pages read by  Stephen Hogan, Lara Hutchinson / 20h 34m rating A- / crime #5 in Dublin Murder Squad series Another trashy crime novel – not too trashy (I just say that)  – very suspenseful.   … Continue reading →

Age of Ambition:  Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos 2014 / 417 pages rating: 9 / nonfiction Remember the China of Mao as allied with Khrushchev’s USSR and total paranoid state control of peasants in massive poverty … Continue reading →

Let’s try this –  I read  19 books in September, 2014 –  10  fiction +  7 crime +  2  non-fiction  with 6 women writers and 0 translated  😦   FICTION:    Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante 2014 … Continue reading →

Lovers at the Chameleon Club: Paris 1932 by Francine Prose read by Edoardo Ballerini, Rosalind Ashford, Geoffrey Cantor, Nicola Barber, Suzanne Toren, Maggi-Meg Reed 2014 / 448 pages rating: 8  / contemp lit/historical fiction I wasn’t going to read this because I thought it sounded kind … Continue reading →

Mother by Maxim Gorky 1907 / 400 pages rating  8.5 / Russian classic (socialist realism) (but I got about 1/2 way) Before I started reading this I looked up some information about Gorky.  I know it’s not always appropriate to do … Continue reading →

The Quincunx: The Inheritance of John Huffam by Charles Palliser 1989 / 781 pages (Kindle) rating 9 / 20th century fiction Omg – I finished it!  Long, complex and puzzle-oriented, Quincunx is the much lauded debut novel by Charles Palliser … Continue reading →

The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China by David Eimer 2014 / 336 pages read by Cory Snow – 10h 42m rating 7.5 / travel China is ruled by the Han descendants on the east coast, but … Continue reading →

Enough already – time to get back to my regularly scheduled text novels and non-fiction. I have to lay off the audio for awhile – I’m all caught up and more! I’ve listened to 11 (eleven) audio books this month … Continue reading →

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarity (Australia) 2014/ 462 pages read by Caroline Lee 16 h rating:  A-  8/ crime (literary) I’m really no good at trying to guess the outcome of  books in which some kind of mystery is … Continue reading →