Author Archives: beckylindroos

For those who don’t know –  Gucci Mane (Radric Delantic Davis) is a famous rap artist who writes some very interesting (and sexist,  violent an drug oriented) lyrics.  I’d never heard of him before,  but the blurbs and sample sounded quite … Continue reading →

The Booker Prize Reading Group chose this one for the month of May – I read it back in 2004 and lost it in my house somewhere –  either that or gave it to the cleaning lady (a reader).   … Continue reading →

Oh it was sale time at Audible and I got about 10 books, one cozy along with two other mysteries and a sci-fi plus five (5!)  nonfiction books.    Omg –  I,  who have been so proud of not having … Continue reading →

Selected by the Allnonfiction Reading Group for our May read,  I figured I would enjoy this tremendously because of The Hidden Life of Trees (link to my review) –   Ah well – it isn’t quite as good,  but it’s very … Continue reading →

Selection for May at Bookgroup List – I wasn’t going to read it but then I tried the Prologue and it was okay and then (!) it went on sale.   So –  I found myself both reading and listening … Continue reading →

Wow –  certainly one of the best non-ficiton book I’ll read this year unless some amazing books show up.   What Goldstein has done,  in addition to explaining a lot about the ideas of Plato and Socrates as well as … Continue reading →

Good solid crime procedural from Ireland during their “Troubles” in the 1980s with the Provisional (activist) IRA. Back in 1988 in Belfast,  Ireland,  a man is found dead in his yard with a cross-bow bolt in his back.   Homicide … Continue reading →

In a reading group discussion of the century’s Pulitzer winners – since 2001 –  I realized I’d read 16 of the 17 books and mentioned the one I’d missed.    So  many of the group said how great this book … Continue reading →

I’ve read quite a bit of Barnes and mostly enjoyed them and although this is by no means my favorite, I liked it better than  The Sense of an Ending (2011).   This is the first person tale of an … Continue reading →

A lucky, luck find for me!  (But it’s a darned strange little book!)  It’s YA but NOT a children’s book at all!  It means Young Adult – ages 16 to 22 or something –   like the The Fault in Our … Continue reading →

“Big Angel was late to his own mother’s funeral.” So begins the story of two Angels – “Big Angel” and “Little Angel” –  half-brothers by the same father,  Antonio de la Cruz,  and also related to a  whole lot of … Continue reading →

Extraordinarily compelling.  Not a bunch of scandal-sheet material,  but rather a thoughtful examination of the major national issues which involved the FBI during James Comey’s tenure as chief as well as his prior life – as much as is appropriate. … Continue reading →

I read the first few (4?) of the long running Amanda Peabody books and enjoyed them,  but haven’t had time to continue the series.   Elizabeth Peters (the pen name of Barbara Mertz)  died a couple years ago and her … Continue reading →

I think I was expecting something like James Joyce’s Dubliners but this is certainly not that!    Verga was a good socialist who wrote about the lives of the common people in the style of Zola –  realistically – even … Continue reading →

(all links to my reviews) I finished the Robert J. Gordon book,  The Rise and Fall of American Growth:  (2015) and it is superb.  Yes!    And I reread quite a lot of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now:   and again,  excellent … Continue reading →

I started reading this in Kindle format about a year ago and got 1/3 of the way through.  It’s a macro-economics book and very, very detailed in the telling of the progress of the US between 1870 and 1970 (not … Continue reading →

Oh I do so love the way Pamuk writes –  I just get sucked into his books because it seems there’s always an underlying  meaning to the words which comes together in layer after layer along with the complexities of … Continue reading →