Category Archives: books

The Forest Unseen:  A Year’s Watch in Nature by David George Haskell (US) 2012/262 pages Rating: 8.5 –  literary -non-fiction/ecology Haskell has written a wonderfully styled and incredibly detailed account of a year in the life of on very small … Continue reading →

This Is How You Lose Her by Juno Diaz (US) 2012 / 224 pages Read by Juno Diaz 5h 15m  (9) Rating: 8 / contemp. immigrant fiction I really enjoyed Diaz’  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) which I read … Continue reading →

The Hearing  (Dismas Hardy #7) by John Lescroart (US) 1999 / 656 pages read by Robert Lawrence 14h 59m Rating:  C – crime Come to find out that Abe Glitsky has an illegitimate grown daughter who has been found dead on … Continue reading →

Swann’s Way Marcel Proust (France) 1913 in France (Lydia Davis trans – 1999)/468 pages Rating: 10 / Classic So, yes,  I re-read this truly excellent book for the third time and I must say it only gets better with each … Continue reading →

The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura (Japan) 2012 / 211 pages (read by Charlie Thurston –  4h 1m) Rating:  8.5 / literary crime I just reread this book – The first review is here.  I have both the audio and the Kindle versions … Continue reading →

15 Seconds by Andrew Gross (US) 2012/336 pages read by Christian Hoff rating: C / crime Doctor Henry Steadman, on his way to a golf game with a buddy in Jackson,  Florida is cited for several at least partly invented … Continue reading →

Nothing But the Truth by John Lescroart (US) 1999 / 464 pages Read by David Colaccci 16h 34m Rating – C/crime Number 6 in the Dismas Hardy series and Colacci does a fine job reading.  Hardy’s wife,  Frannie is very … Continue reading →

The Garden of the Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (Malaysia) 2012/ 332 pages Rating: 9 / historical fiction I started reading this for the Booker Prize group or I might not have picked it up and that would have been so … Continue reading →

Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner 2013/400 pages read by Elizabeth Rogers 14h 29m rating:  B Libby Denbe has the life of dreams,  a rich husband who owns a large construction company, a beautiful teenage daughter, a home in the … Continue reading →

A Case Against Redemption by Adam Metzner 2013 / 336 pages Read by Kevin T. Collins 10h 50m Rating: A- I looked forward to this book since I heard it was coming out because I so enjoyed the author’s earlier A … Continue reading →

Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich 2013 / 320 pages read by Kirby Heyborne 10h. 16m Rating:  8 Mitchell Zucker is a financial analyst for an unusual company which protects the big corporations against worst-case scenarios – floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, … Continue reading →

Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay 2012 / 512 pages read by Ken Marks, Rich Holmes 14h 2m rating:  A- Thomas Kilbride is what you might call an “odd duck” but he’s a bit more than that – he’s schizophrenic, … Continue reading →

The Expats by Chris Pavone (US) 2013/336 pages read by Mozhan Marno 12h 27m rating:  B+ Kate Moore has quit her CIA job and is following her husband and his career in banking and investment computer security.    She tries to … Continue reading →

Before the Poison by Peter Robinson (Canada)  2011 / 368 pages read by Susan Lyons, Toby Lennet Moore 13h 56m Rating:  C- A atmospheric murder story taking place in a really gothic-type setting is not so easy to get into in sunny … Continue reading →

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (England) 2012/ 336 pages Rating: 9 The premise is simple – a man gets a letter from an old female co-worker, Queenie Hennessy,  who is now dying far away. He decides … Continue reading →

The Man of Numbers:  Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution by Keith Devlin (England) 2011 / 192 pages rating – 7 Okay – so having a bit of time available (not really but I’m in a lot of denial).  Anyway,  I gave the … Continue reading →

Dry Bones by Peter May (Scotland) 2006/336 pages read by Simon Vance 10h 21m rating:  C This is the first of the Enzo Files books by May,  originally called “Extraordinary People.”   The Scottish Detective Enzo Macleod is currently living in … Continue reading →