Author Archives: beckylindroos

“Spell the Month in Books is a linkup hosted on Reviews From the Stacks on the first Saturday of each month. This month was easy because self-evidently May has only three letters — and the theme is Nature” which lends itself … Continue reading →

And this beat just keeps going right on. I even pre-ordered this book a few months ago.  I thought they’d tell me when it was available but no –  I lucked into it anyway.  This is #24 in The Women’s … Continue reading →

William Faulkner famously and wisely said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”   That’s the main theme of this whole trilogy. A secondary theme might be from Martin Luther King, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light … Continue reading →

With 19 novels (usually long) and 1 novella to his name, Greg Isles has been writing some of the grittiest Southern fiction on the market. I’ve read books by him before, but Natchez Burning is one of the best to … Continue reading →

This is the first in a series (of 2 book so far) and I wanted to read book #2 but it didn’t seem wise without having read book #1 – sooooo –  I know I’ve read something by Susan Isaacs … Continue reading →

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 →