Category: FOUR STARS ****

January 5, 2015

My Promised Land by Ari Shavit **** (of 4)

Israel is threatened, and always has been, from within and without. Beyond its borders are hundreds of millions of Arabs, and 1.5 billion Muslims, most of...

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January 5, 2015

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast **** (of 4)

It’s a cartoon memoir of the passing of Roz Chast’s, a New Yorker cartoonist, parents. Her parents lived into their 90s and died the long,...

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November 26, 2014

The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol **** (of 4)

Eight short stories about young and old Jews in America and in Israel and every character elicits your sympathy. Antopol starts her stories in the...

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October 23, 2014

The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny **** (of 4)

Sixteen monks live in an isolated Canadian monastery dedicated to Pure Gregorian Chant, God, and the obscure Saint Gilbert. Until there are fifteen monks because the...

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August 11, 2014

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr **** (of 4)

Two parallel stories. In France, a teenage girl, blind since the age of five, has her life turned upside down when the Germans invade Paris....

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July 21, 2014

Shake Off by Mischa Hiller **** (of 4)

The protagonist, he goes by several aliases, but Michel Khoury appears to be his given name, is a former Palestinian refugee from Lebanon. His parents...

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July 13, 2014

Thank you for your Service by David Finkel **** (of 4)

The war after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq consists of 500,000 broken soldiers, men and women returned to the United States suffering from PTSD...

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June 7, 2014

An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson **** (of 4)

The year is 1942. Axis powers have taken control of Europe, east Asia and the Pacific, North Africa, and are threatening to consume Russia. Britain,...

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May 5, 2014