Category Archives: 2023 Fiction

Another really, really good one!  It’s so good I stopped about 1/3 through and downloaded the Kindle version to start over and read along.  I think maybe it really should be read in print so you can mentally switch characters … Continue reading →

Okay,  fellow readers, this book is so good I was listening along, totally fascinated, but feeling like I wasn’t quite getting everything.  So at about 1/3 through,  I downloaded the Kindle version and started over while reading along.   It’s … Continue reading →

Recommended by a friend several week ago, I really enjoyed this as a break from the Trump/crime/heavy lit material I’ve been reading.  It’s lighter but not at all “fluffy.”   Yes – I so needed the break and this proved … Continue reading →

The Fifth Risk – bottom line?  I  appreciated it quite a lot,  it was informative about the workings of the Trump agencies and it’s well written.  I love Michael Lewis’  books because he explains stuff very well,  usually focusing a … Continue reading →

As promised,  I reread The Emigrants quite promptly.   Actually,  what happened was that I started another book,  (pulp crime) and it just didn’t cut it. Back to Sebald. I’d like to note that one of the reasons the book … Continue reading →

This is an amazing book for readers of True Crime and/or memoirs.   I love really good True Crime although I’ll certainly admit much of it is junk.   James Renner was a lowly journalist working in the dailies we … Continue reading →

I’ll be reading this again very shortly,  I might even start later today or tomorrow, although it is rather intense and you don’t notice until late in the book  and you contemplate reading it again.  But it’s so incredibly good … Continue reading →

Well – that’s likely the last Walter Mosley book I read.  A long time ago I read his novel Little Scarlett  and seem to remember rather enjoying it.  Not true of  this one,  although I did finish it.  It was too … Continue reading →

For the past  year or so I’ve been reading a lot of political books.  I was motivated by our tumultuous Presidency,  but the books have not all been directly about the election or Mr Trump’s his White House.  Rather, although … Continue reading →

Oh I enjoy Dan Jones (The Plantagenets andThe Wars of the Roses – links to my reviews on this site),  so when The Templars came out I immediately put it on my TBR-type Wish List at Audible. And it was … Continue reading →

For those who don’t yet know,  Robert Galbaith is the pseudonym of J.K. Rowling,  author of the Harry Potter books.  I read the first one and had I been 10 instead of 40 when I read it I would have … Continue reading →

“Every age has its own Fascism”  Primo Levi   (the epigraph.) I read this again for the All-nonfiction group discussion  It’s basically a little examination of some of the many faces “Fascism,”  which Albright deliberately never quite defines,  has worn … Continue reading →

Oh I did need something a bit lighter after  Bob Woodward’s Fear – (see my review).   This was highly recommended by a reader I follow at Audible and it is well worth it (I do enjoy a good legal … Continue reading →

Did you ever get the feeling that watching and reading the news in the media you only get the surface material?  This is the book which fills in the big blank spots,  especially when the events and issues change almost … Continue reading →

I nominated this for reading at a small group because it looked really good to me and like something the others would enjoy.   I was not wrong.   It was one of the finalists (usually 3) for the Pulitzer … Continue reading →

Reading this again for a group even though it is a disturbing novel – it’s also exceptionally good – if you can stand to read it. The first time I appreciated it and I knew it was beautifully done,  but … Continue reading →

For awhile reading this I felt like I’d been tricked into buying it but that was okay because I was really enjoying it.  How did I think I was fooled? I thought I was buying a political book probably because … Continue reading →