Fiction

If you want to read something pleasant and absorbing, while mild and unthreatening, pick up this “oldie but goodie” for your August vacation. I’m glad I did.

I give this book five stars mostly because of the fabulous book discussion it prompted in my book group last night.

This is a satisfying escape read, perfect for the summer. I give it five stars. It was interesting, well written, kept my attention to the end, and I never knew how it would all resolve.

I warn you, there are a lot of guns in this book, and because of that, I debated even honoring it with a review here.

Given the subject matter and size of this book, most of you won’t read it, but wow, this is a redeeming example of post modern literature, which was especially appreciated by me after reading and abandoning several others recently.

Never sappy, sexy, nor too trivial, this is romance at its best. It is a solid, upstanding, and enjoyable read.

I am so fulfilled with this read that I feel unwilling to start another book anytime soon; I need to linger a while more in the afterglow of this one.

This is a magnificent novel set in Alaska, although very difficult in places. I give it five stars.

This is a story of two neighbors–one patrician blue-bloods of high society, and the other a Mafia Don and his family– who clash and implode. It serves as a cautionary tale in many ways, as well as a study in human nature.

I enjoyed this book of historical fiction about the Empress SiSi (Elizabeth) married to the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph of the Hapsburg line.

This book about the Ravensbruck all-women (non-Jew) concentration camp during WWII was harrowing and hard to read.

Well, first of all the scene on the cover never comes close to happening in the book. Secondly, the title is all wrong because it isn’t really about the man in the iron mask. It is a sequel to the Three Musketeers…