Author Archives: beckylindroos

Lucy Barton, our first person protagonist, is having some medical complications from an appendectomy and is in the hospital for several weeks.  She misses her husband and daughters,  but during this time her mother travels from Amgash, Illinois to see her … Continue reading →

I’d been eye-balling this book and then voila – it was selected as the discussion read at All-nonfiction Group!   Okay – so I looked forward to it – I don’t usually read the group selections until a couple weeks prior … Continue reading →

I listened to this years ago – one of my first Audio books –  and I was amazed.  So I was more than willing to read it again when it came up as a selection in the Modern Fictionreading group. … Continue reading →

The hero is corrupt – specifically,  a New York City detective sergeant has gone bad -actually,  this is basically a really good cop who has gone very bad.  Winslow tells us the story of his fall and it’s gritty – … Continue reading →

I’ve read a couple books by Dunant over the last few years ago and have not been impressed.   The prior books were “Sacred Hearts” and “Blood and Beauty”,   Dunant’s 1st book in this series about the Borgias.   Nevertheless, several members … Continue reading →

Sofia Papastergiadis is a very bright young woman trying to finish her PhD in anthropology, but who is stuck working at a coffee bar in London.   Mainly she has some family and personal issues.   For one thing she’s … Continue reading →

John McWhorter is an academic, a popular writer and an associate professor at Columbia University.  I listened to his book,  The Story of Human Language a couple or three years ago – (a Great Courses audio),  enjoyed it tremendously and … Continue reading →

In my wanderings around the net I kept seeing this book and started wondering … and I listened to a bit and was intrigued …  so I got it from Audible.    And then I was listening as I drove … Continue reading →

Don’t bother.   I read it for a reading group- had bad feelings but went ahead anyway.  The idea is not all that impressive –  it was floated around back with Stephen King’s  11/22/63  showing alternative realities in a possibly multiplex … Continue reading →

I probably would never have read this book had it not been for the fact it was an All-Nonfiction group selection.   And I would have missed a bunch but it’s not up to the hype of the movie.   … Continue reading →

I’d seen this on the recommendations lists and reviews from various places,   then my sister recommended it and after a few months I caved.   Yup – it’s pretty good.  And I needed something a bit funny or light … Continue reading →

I didn’t think I’d read this before,  but perhaps I did back in the 1970, s but it was before I read Rebecca (which I love) ,  so I had nothing to really connect it to.   I remembered that prior … Continue reading →

This is almost a mirror image of Open Secrets in terms of  theme but the content and style are so different.   In Open Secrets the really alone people were almost all women,  in this one they are all men – … Continue reading →

This book has a really slow start but eventually it gets past the background situation and the Jewish situation and zones in on the first person protagonist,  Berekiah Zarco,  a Jew living in Lisbon in the early 1500s.   This … Continue reading →

This is an “older” collection of stories written by Alice Munro, the “contemporary Chekov of Canada”  (per Margaret Atwood),  or of the world,  some might say since she won the  2013 Nobel Prize in Literature for that very thing. Munro is so great  – … Continue reading →

I guess I should have known better,  but maybe not.   I really enjoyed O’Brien’s The Things They Carried back about 5 years ago,  but never really wanted to try another one by him.   I tend to be  allergic to war … Continue reading →

I’ve enjoyed good True Crime books for years (decades).   It goes without saying that the best of them require a lot of solid research and it would seem Bilton really enjoys that because the background and details are evidence of … Continue reading →