Author Archives: beckylindroos

The Drop by Michael Connelly 2011/ Audio read by Peter Giles rating 7 (very good for a detective novel) Reading three Connelle books virtually back-to-back is amazing.  I enjoyed it far more than I thought I would.  I did take … Continue reading →

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward 2011 – 272 pages Rating 1 Okay –  I really disliked the book – actively.   I should go answer the questions about why people finish books.  I guess I finished because I was curious … Continue reading →

The Reversal by Michael Connelly audio – 2010 detective – rating 7 When Mickey Haller, defense attorney,  gets a call to join the prosecution and  retry an old murder case he is doubtful.  But as he joins his ex-wife on … Continue reading →

Nine Dragons Michael Connelly detective fiction 2010 – audio rating 7 ( high for detective) Harry Bosch strikes again (for the umpteenth time).  This time he’s after a man who shot and killed a small grocery owner but who might … Continue reading →

Reconstruction:  America’s Unfinished Revolution by Eric Foner 1988 (2003) –  736 pages Rating 9.5 Wow – what a definitive book – more about Reconstruction and that era than I really thought I ever wanted to know.  It’s good though – … Continue reading →

Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution by Eric Foner 1988 / 690 pages I’ve wanted to read this book for a long time.  Now I am – it may take awhile though – a week or two.  I’d like to just take … Continue reading →

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 2003 – 148 pgs – Kindle rating 9.25 “When the Emperor Was Divine” starts with the day of the Japanese departure for the camps and ends several years later.   It’s every … Continue reading →

The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds 2009 / 259 pages Rating 9.5   (upped that on second reading) Fascinating fiction dealing with Alfred Lord Tennyson’s relationship with Doctor Matthew Allen and his sanitorium in Epping Fields where John Clare stayed, … Continue reading →

Catch Me by Lisa Gardner narrated by Kristen Potter 2012 / 13h. 8m. rating  6.5 A woman strongly suspects that she will be killed in 4 days – she prepares.  Her  main reason for believing this is her 2 best girlfriends … Continue reading →

The New Life by Orhan Pamuk 1993/ 297 pages Rating 8 One day Osman, a young man in Turkey,  reads a book which changes his life.  He then falls in love with Janan, the woman who introduced him to the … Continue reading →

The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst 2011 Kindle 435 pgs rating – 8.5 I was really enjoying this book up to about midway and then it just seemed like nothing was really happening.  There are too many parties,  too many … Continue reading →

The Angel Esemralda by Don DeLillo 2011 / 211 pages (Kindle) Rating – 9.5 Oh my,  I have hit a jackpot lately with these incredible books to read!  I love Don DeLillo anyway and have followed him since Underworld (1997) … Continue reading →

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Osaga 2011/129 pages (Kindle) rating –  9.5 I don’t cry over sad books,  and now I can’t say that anymore.  I live in a town unmentioned in the book,  but in the middle … Continue reading →

The Swerve by Steven Greenblatt 2011 / 363  pages Rating –  9.5 This is the story of how Gian Poggio, a scholar of the 14th century,  came to find an ancient manuscript, “On the Nature of Things” written by Lucretius … Continue reading →

by Dashiell Hammett 1930 224 pages read by William Dufris 7h. 9m. rating 6 This is a rather twisted tale of a missing woman,  an apparent murder, a missing statue,  etc.   It’s told in the old narrative style of hard-boiled … Continue reading →

Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch 2011 / 304 pages rating 8.5 What do I mean when I say a book has a Dickensian flavor?  Oh – it’s about 19th century lower class London,  uses lots of dialogue and dialect,  there … Continue reading →

Gorky  Park by Martin Cruz read by Henry Stroltzer 1988 14h. 53m. rating 6 It’s still in print -that says something.  And it’s pretty good book – three men found dead by one gun but the same killer?  Not   … Continue reading →