Author Archives: beckylindroos

by James Joyce 628 pages / Penguin edition rating 9.5  (it’s an incredible achievement but maybe not one of my all-time favorite books) What a heck of a ride!   I read this a bit at a time for 7 … Continue reading →

by Erin Morgenstern – 2011 / 400 pgs /  rating –  8.5 I kind of expected to be disappointed in this book because there’s been so much hype.  But I wasn’t – maybe I kept the hype at bay somehow.  Anyway, … Continue reading →

 by Andrea Levy  2011 / 320 pages  – 8 –  Her life story as written out by an old woman with the help of her son, The Long Song stretches from the days of slavery in Jamaica to 1898, the day … Continue reading →

by Wilkie Collins 1875 / Kindle / 436 pages / rating … 8 I think this must have been a pot-boiler in its day.  Collins does so well with women – he was apparently the only male author of his … Continue reading →

Currently reading Byzantium by Judith Herrin,  The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins, and Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.  Listening to Reamde, the new one by Neal Stephenson.   I’m really enjoying every single one of them.  But I … Continue reading →

by Haruki Murakami 2011 / 954 pages  / Audio & Kindle / rating – 9.5 I realize that I made NOTES on this book and I posted them and I included the book in my monthly reads for November but I didn’t … Continue reading →

by Monica Ferris  2004 / – 256 pgs / audio 6:34  read  by Monica Harris /  rating – 6 (B for crime)  The Nashville Needlework convention is rescheduled for December and this is hard on everyone from the business owners to … Continue reading →

  by Jussi Adler-Olsen 2007 – (US 2011) / audio – 15:41 / Erik Davies / rating 7   The first book in Olsen’s Department Q series,  Carl MØrck, a homicide detective near retirement is “promoted” to the new department of  old cases. … Continue reading →

  by Stephen King 2011 / audio 30:43 / rating 7.5 I’ve never been able to read a whole book by Stephen King,  although goodness knows I’ve tried.   I’d like to say that I really admire the man for doing his … Continue reading →

by Deon Meyers 2010/ Audio – 11:29/ 7.5  Capetown detective Benny Griessel has some problems,  he drinks and womanizes too much and his wife has tossed him out.   Also,  a very young, female tourist …  MORE

by David Malouf  2009/ 224 pages/ rating 8.5    Australian poet and author Malouf writes beautifully clear, passionate almost mesmerizing prose, mostly short novels of historical fiction with some fascinating premises. In the last two I’ve read he has filled blanks … Continue reading →

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough 2011/ 576 pages / rating 8.5 I was actually disappointed in what I thought was an oh-so-promising book.  I guess I bought the hype but I’ve read much better books by … Continue reading →

The Litigators  by John Grisham 2011 / Audio – 11:23 , read by Dennis Boukaris rating 7.5 Boy Grisham’s back and he’s having fun – two down and out ambulance-chasing attorneys are joined by a Harvard educated casualty of a big-firm … Continue reading →

 I started The Greater Journey by David McCullough and that is certainly a very “rich” book – it feels like I’m involved with a double-rich chocolate eclaire.   So I can’t read too much at a time.  It is delightful … Continue reading →

11/18 – Feast Day of Fools by James Lee Burke 2011  / 480 pages / audio narrated by Will Patton rating 5 Okay fine – we’ve got Sheriff Hackberry Holland fighting the baddies in the desert of southwestern Texas.  This … Continue reading →

So I have  The Greater Journey by David McCullough in hard cover because I was nervous about the photos in the Kindle version.  I’ve started and I kind of wish I’d got the Kindle because the physical book is pretty … Continue reading →

Little Bee by Chris Cleeve (2009-01-28) Little Bee, Simon & Schuster, Inc. Kindle Edition. 2009 / 224 pgs / rating 8.5   REVIEW This is one of those instances where I started a book and really did NOT think I would … Continue reading →