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Book 23 I am not under the impression it happens very often: author writes a really great first novel and then follows it up with a bloody brilliant second novel. But there it is. The Virgin Suicides was sort of a mystery/coming of age… Continue Reading “Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides”
Book 22 Sci Fi is not my favorite genre, and I really do not enjoy stories of dystopian societies. So I was not thrilled when Vonnegut’s book of short stories popped up as the pick in my book club. There were a lot of… Continue Reading “Welcome to the Monkey House, by Kurt Vonnegut”
Book 21 The Awakening is one of those 19th century “women trapped by the conventions of society” novels. This one was banned immediately upon publication, which I funny because it seems to lack the requisite smut. Which tells me that the puritanical idiots that… Continue Reading “The Awakening, by Kate Chopin”
Book 19 Geraldine Brooks is a journalist/novelist and I love her work so much that I read an entire novel about a small town in England ravaged by the Black Plague in 1666. They make a pact to close off the town with no… Continue Reading “Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks”
This was a favorite among the local book clubs that I picked up when it arrived at the Library’s Used Book Store. One of those stories without (or with little) plot, the twist being that it is a French novelist writing about people in… Continue Reading “The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery”
Book 17 This is the second time in a row that I have picked up a short Twain book and taken forever to read it. Twain visited the Hawaiian islands in the 1860s and sent many dispatches back to the states about his experiences.… Continue Reading “Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing it in the Sandwich Islands”
Book 16 An American journalist in Paris is assigned a story – the anniversary of the mass arrest and deportation of Jews in Paris, 1942. She finds a personal connection, through her French in-laws, to one of the families and tries to find out… Continue Reading “Sarah’s Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay”
Book 15 Ward Just likes to explore (at least) two broad themes: how Washington messes up people and the expatriate experience. The Translator is about two expatriates – one German and the other American – that meet, marry and build a life in Paris.… Continue Reading “The Translator, by Ward Just”
Book 14 I read Unger’s Beautiful Lies awhile back and liked it enough to pick up two more. Fragile is a horrible-thing-happens-in-a-small-town story, where the horrible thing reminds everyone of that one other horrible thing that happened twenty years ago. So, yeah. Flashbacks in… Continue Reading “Fragile, by Lisa Unger”
Book 13 I saw this for the first time at the Library’s Used Book Store shortly after its release. The story is about a girl that picks up on other people’s feeling by eating the food they cook. Cool premise, but it was worth… Continue Reading “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender”
The Next Dark Age 