The Summer Country (Book Review)
If you are looking for a completely diverting but unessential read, this may be what you are looking for.
Fiction
City Bakers Guide to Country Living (Book Review)
This is breezy fiction at its best– warm, home-affirming, and full of the transformative power of love.
Marriage of Opposites (Book Review)
I enjoyed this factual, excellently written, historical fiction about famous impressionist Camille Pissarro and his background, set mostly on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands.
Beka Copper and Alanna Series By Tamora Pierce (Review)
These engaging books are great for their invincibly strong female characters, and the fascinatingly thorough world building the author has done.
Day 27: A Visit to Anne of Green Gables
It was fun to visit Anne of Green Gables’ house here in Prince Edward’s Island. Included in these photos is some of the info I thought interesting about the author L.M. Montgomery, as well as a view of the house tour.
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance (Book Review)
Want an escape read for this summer that is neither banal, predictable, or mindless? This one could do quite nicely, as it did for me.
A Gentleman in Moscow (Book Review)
I really enjoyed this charming, sentimental, well written book. I recommend it and give it five stars.
Paint the Bird (Book Review)
It is not a fun read, and is R-rated in places, but the metaphors ring poetic on the rebound. The main characters are a disillusioned aging African American minister who who picks up an artist at a bar whose HIV positive gay son has just died.
The Moonflower Vine (Book Review)
Beyond family, this book’s themes are rebellion, faith, secrets, love, independence, and the need for extending compassion to everyone for reasons we may never know.
Small Great Things (Book Review)
At times this book is excruciating to read. However, it is important, especially for white people, to read it.
Magpie Murders (Book Review)
This is a clever mystery novel with unexpectedly two stories within one, which was a twist I’ve never run across before.
Books We Got for Christmas 2018
We continue to be a bookish bunch, as you can see from this post, which shows the books we gave and received this Christmas.
My Antonia (Book Review)
I give it five stars; it is a classic for a reason. Willa Cather’s prose is outstanding without being fussy, pretentious, or self conscious.
The Enchanted April (Book Review)
Spend some time in this story, and you’ll come away feeling like any problem in your life just needs a little more love applied to be instantly solved.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Book Review)
This tour de force, five star, Pulitzer Prize winning novel, at 654 tightly printed pages, took me a long time to read. However, there is no question that it is a masterpiece of excellent writing…