Author Archives: beckylindroos

The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urea 2005 /  528 pages read by Luis Alberto Urea (the author) 18h 25m (read and listened) rating:  9.5 – historical fiction (mystical realism) I belong to a lot of reading groups where we nominate … Continue reading →

Isaac’s Storm:  A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson 1999 / 323 pages read by Richard Davidson 9h 38m rating:  8.5 / non-fiction – history Although Hurricane Katrina which hit the Gulf Coast in 2005 … Continue reading →

The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee 2013/ 505 pages rating:  8.75 / historical fiction Another long one – omg – but it won a slot on the Man Booker    short list in 2014 so the Booker Prize reading group chose … Continue reading →

The Fall by John Lescroart 2015/ 320 pages read by David Colacci 11h 11m rating:  A /  crime (legal) Dismas Hardy series – #16 I’m a fan of Lescroart and have mostly followed the Dismas Hardy series from the first … Continue reading →

These are the books I read in May, 2015.  A total of 16 books with 8 of them over 400 pages!  Categorically,  I read 4 crime books , 1 sci-fi,  1 nonfiction,  3 classics and  5 women authors.  No translations.  Ratings … Continue reading →

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson 2015 / 880 pages read by Mary Robinette Kowal, Will Damron – 31h 55m rating:  B / science fiction “The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.”    Yup – that’s the first sentence of … Continue reading →

The Martian by Andy Weir 2011 / (385 pages) read by R.C. Bray 10h 53m Rating:  A / sci-fi (space travel) ** read in April – forgot to put the post up ** Imagine yourself an astronaut who is stranded … Continue reading →

The Whites by Richard Price / Harry Brandt 2015 / 352 -pages read by  Ari Flakes 10h 30m rating:  B+ / literary crime I really enjoyed Lush Life back in 2008 so I was considering reading this one anyway and then the Modern Fiction  group … Continue reading →

The End of Vandalism by Tom Drury 1994 / (352 pages) read by Lloyd James 10h 36m rating:  9 / contemp fiction I found it!   A book in which many of the characters are a part of the setting  – … Continue reading →

The Information by Martin Amis 1996 / 372 pages rating:   5 0ut of 10 / contemp lit This is the third book in what is generally known as TheLondon Trilogy, with the books  Money and London Fields preceding it. They’re not connected by … Continue reading →

Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn 2014 /  480 pages rating – 8 / US history (Indian) (self-select) Interesting to me because of the North Dakota connection and I’ve also … Continue reading →

Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple 2013 / 352 pages read by Kathleen Wiltholte 9h 39m rating:  8 / contemp fiction – humorous This is a very funny, hilarious (?),  and generally good-natured satire of contemporary society with emphasis on … Continue reading →

Invasion of Privacy by Ian Sutherland 2014/ 472 pages read by Matthew Lloyd Davies 16h 59m rating: A + / cyber-crime A cellist is the victim of a very violent, premeditated murder. Individual webcams are highjacked to provide  entertainment and information.  Hackers are needed to solve … Continue reading →

No Show by Simon Wood 2013 / 298 pages read by Luke Daniels 8h 20m rating B  /   crime First,  the narrator is difficult to get used to – his interpretation  of Terry Sheffield, the protagonist, is fine,  but when … Continue reading →

Blessed Are the Dead by Malla Nunn (South Africa/Australia) 2012 / 336 pages read by Humphrey Bower  9h 7m  (A+) rating:   A /  crime This is the third book in the Detective Emmanuel Cooper series by Malla Nunn of … Continue reading →

The Snopes Trilogy by William Faulkner 1940 – 1957  / 3 volumes Rating 10 / classic American fiction Whew!  I did it.  A long time goal to read the    whole Snopes Trilogy – ever since just after high school. … Continue reading →

The Mansion by William Faulkner 1959 / 498 pages rating 9+ / classic American The Mansion starts up at the scene where Mink Snopes shoots Isaac Houston over a cow.  This is back-story from maybe half-way through The Town but where The Town leaves Mink with … Continue reading →