Category: Book Reviews

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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October 7, 2014

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride *** (of 4)

Of course I’ve heard of John Brown, the abolitionist, who tried to start an insurrection and free the slaves by himself. But, truth is, that...

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September 26, 2014

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling *** (of 4)

The plot entails a battle in city council, in Britain called Parish Council, over whether the poorer neighborhood of Yarvil should be cut free from...

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September 9, 2014

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene ** (of 4)

Greene is supposed to be one of the great storytellers of our age, and this version read aloud by Colin Firth (pitter pat goes my...

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August 31, 2014

Age of Ambition by Evan Osnos *** (of 4)

Evan Osnos has been living in China for the last eight years and reporting for the New Yorker for much of that time. Age of...

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August 20, 2014

11/22/63 by Stephen King *** (of 4)

The premise is a standard trope of science fiction: time travel. And each time the main character, Jake Epping, closes his eyes and taps with his toe...

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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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July 6, 2014