Category Archives: 2023 Fiction

It happened again!  I started listening to this and then at some point realized it is really quite good,  like meaningfully good.  Furthermore, I’m wasn’t  “getting it”  all.  So I stopped,  maybe 1/3 through,  and download the Kindle version.  I … Continue reading →

Chosen by the All-nonfiction Group as the selection for March,  I likely would  have passed on this book because,  although I’m interested in the subject,  i feel kind of burned out on reading bad stuff about life in the US. … Continue reading →

This incredible classic was on sale (I still can’t believe that!)  and I snatched it up because although I’d read the first volume of the trilogy,  The Wreath,  I wanted to reread it and continiue with the whole thing.   I … Continue reading →

I read this for the 4-Mystery Addicts reading group and it’s a book I would never have picked up on my own,  but it was pretty good.   Fwiw,  I’m getting kind of tired of reading about women in trouble … Continue reading →

I’ve wanted to read this book ever since I read A Gentleman in Moscow (2016) a couple years ago.   That was such a brilliant book it just spun my head as it warmed my heart.  (I gave it a … Continue reading →

I’m as much a fan of Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen – 1813)  as most moderately well-read folks,  probably –   it’s a great book,  funny and very insightful as well as being nicely-written and it’s definitely stood the test … Continue reading →

Oh my –  I started reading Longbourn by Jo Baker  –  it’s a 21st century take-off of Pride and Prejudice and goes through the same events except from the point of view of the servants.   I figured I could … Continue reading →

Taking place in 1982,  Nick Mannino is just out of law school and working in legal aid for low income clients when he gets a case where he truly believes the client is innocent of sexually molesting the young boys … Continue reading →

I read this back in May, I think, and then in November or something the Booker Prize Reading Group decided to read it so I figured a reread was probably worth it.   My first review is here:     … Continue reading →

Benjamin Lay was an 18th century Quaker,  a dwarf – barely 4 feet tall – who lived in a cave, sewed his own clothes and ate as a vegetarian.  He was an avid reader, an autodidact,  and a writer as … Continue reading →

Long ago I read Josephine Tey’s most popular and famous book,  The Daughter of Time (1951) and very much enjoyed it . It’s often considered  one of the best mystery books of all time and Tey is also known for Bret Farrar … Continue reading →

I got this as one of the Daily Deal specials from Audible.com and the summary was intriguing and the narrator sounded okay on the sample.  So,  in spite of several reviewers who were disappointed,  especially by the narrator,   I … Continue reading →

I picked up this older book at Audible a week or so ago because:  1.  it was on sale and 2.     I enjoyed one of Lehane’s books in the past (the other one wasn’t so hot).   The premise  of … Continue reading →

Holy the Firm just struck me as something I wanted to read.  I read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ages and ages ago and loved it.    This is a bit different,  it’s Dillard on Lummi Island seeking 1. God in … Continue reading →

Oh my –   I really had no idea what I was getting into when I cracked this one.  It was scheduled for discussion in one of my groups with the idea that it was a take-off of King Lear. … Continue reading →

Having read Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser just three months ago, I wasn’t all that keen about finding Libertarians on the Prairie on sale at Amazon.   That said,  I did wonder what the differences in the two books would … Continue reading →

Many years ago I enjoyed Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto,  but later I thought her book State of Wonder was kind of lame, so I avoided Commonwealth in its year of hype and I’ve not read anything else by her.   … Continue reading →