Fiction

This is a good novel about mistakes and forgiveness.

This is what my book friends call a “palette cleanser” and sometimes you need an easy read with a happy ending.

This is an atmospheric, engrossing, immersive read set in Mississippi during the depression.

It is sheer fun to to read on the one level, and meaningful backstory on the suffragist movement on the other.

This is a story about two lonely people, an elderly widower and a seventeen year old girl, who both read the same reading list, and how it changes their lives. Mental health issues play a role, as well as grief. I found the elderly gentlemen particularly endearing.

This is based on the Hans Christian Anderson tale The Wild Swans. It is a long, very deep retelling that adds so much

I listened to this book and it is superbly well done, although the themes are serious, including rape, abuse, and abortion. It is atmospheric and compulsive, and frankly a relief when it is over. There was a quip that the term witch only serves the one naming and not the one named, and that seems … Read more

You too might enjoy this clean clash of wits, which results in a fun read, as well as a relationship of believable substance. This book strikes that rare balance of being light without being vapid.

This is a good, light beach read, that felt like a vacation.

Yesteryear packs a punch and is different than anything you’ve ever read. It merges many different themes – Christian evangelism, politics, feminism, online influencers, exposure of children on the internet, delusion, and idealism of the traditionalism of the past– in a compulsively readable story, that left me sad in end.

This book is desolate and rather devastating. This is not so much a recommendation as a review; it is me needing to talk about it, not you needing to read it.

This is a novel about second-generation Tunisian immigrants living in Sweden, and their challenges of cultural duality, where they do not fit in, either in their country of ethnic origin nor in their resident birth country.