Author Archives: beckylindroos

Unraveled Sleeve by Monica Ferris 2001 / 256 pgs read by Susan Boyce:  8 hrs rating – B I’m a sucker for a good cozy mystery and once in awhile I need a good one,  when I’ve been reading “hard” … Continue reading →

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel 2012/ 410 pages Rating 9.5 – 10 ? Whew – insomnia (my friend) woke me up at about 3:30 this AM and I was able to finish the book.   Finally!   I’d had such … Continue reading →

A Cool Breeze On the Underground by Don Winslow 1991- 250 pages narrated by Joe Barrett – 9h. 55m rating B+ Interesting series – new to me – I may follow this.   Years ago Joe Graham, a PI for … Continue reading →

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner – 1929 / paper & audio 199 pages (of story + 246 in Norton Critical Edition) 8:51 audio rating 9.5 I’ve read this twice before and  I’m sure there’s always something more to … Continue reading →

Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indridason 2011/ Audio George Guidall 9h 24 Rating B+ Iceland is a popular place for Thai immigrants and a woman named Sunee lives there with her Thai son and her Icelandic son.  But they’re still outsiders … Continue reading →

Eden’s Outcasts: Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson 2008 / p’back 497 pages Biography Rating – 9 Well it looks like I’m rereading this for the All-nonfiction group.  I read it back in 2009 and can’t find my … Continue reading →

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1868 / Kindle (about 600 pages) Rating:  10 I read this once before – I think I listened to it several years ago – so I’m kind of primed for a good read.  The first … Continue reading →

Behind a Mask: or, A Woman’s Power by Louisa May Alcott  (A.M. Barnard) 1866 / (not long – a novella really) rating – ?  7.5 (but it is a classic) While rereading and discussing the Pulitzer winner (2008) Louisa May Alcott … Continue reading →

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 2012/ 432 pgs  – Narrated by Julian Whelan & Kirby Heyborne / 19h 11m Rating: B+  (crime rating) Oh my – what a page-turning suspense filled psychological crime novel.  Who is the first suspect when … Continue reading →

The Pen Literary Awards were announced the other day.   The winner of the Science Writing award was James Gleick for “The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood which I read about in August 2011.  Yes,  it deserves a prize. … Continue reading →

To the End of the Land by David Grossman 2008 / 653 pages Israeli Lit – (translated) Rating  7.5 I have a feeling I would have enjoyed this book a lot more had I not just finished Wish You Were … Continue reading →

Home by Toni Morrison 2012/147 pages genre:  historical fiction (1952) rating:  8 In the pre-dawn hours 24-year old Frank Money, a recently discharged Korea War vet,  manages to feign sleep, escape his cuffs and sneak out of an asylum in … Continue reading →

Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift 2012 / 336 pages Genre – contemp issues-relationships (literary) Rating – 9.5 Graham Swift now has a number of novels to his credit –  I’ve read two,  ”Final Orders” and Waterland,”   prior to Wish … Continue reading →

The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose  (also Who Do You Think You Are?) by Alice Munro 1978 / 224 pages short stories about one young woman, Rose rating – 9 This was first published in 1978 by Canadian … Continue reading →

By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham 2012 / 256 pgs genre – relationships – (?) Rating –  7.5 Peter and Rebecca Harris live an upscale life in New York where he is an art dealer with his own gallery while she … Continue reading →

The Better Angels of Our Natures: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker 2011 / 832 pages Read by Arthur Morey – 36h. 43m. Rating – 8.5 I chose to read this because of a recommendation from Bill Gates on his … Continue reading →

Dubliners by James Joyce 1914 / 190 pages Rating 10 I read this collection of 15 short stories several years ago and very much enjoyed it – now another group is reading it and I decided to go for a … Continue reading →