I’ve got a bunch of new books to talk about – and a backlog of reviews to get posted! Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy… Read more
Here’s another one I picked up on an impulse. It’s on my Kindle, so this will be one of my vacation reads, I think. A Beautiful Poison Poison by Lydia Kang: Just beyond the Gilded Age, in the mist-covered streets of New York, the deadly Spanish influenza ripples through the city. But with so many victims in her close circle, young… Read more
This was a gift from my favorite cousin, Ann. Off course she’s my favorite – she buys me books! Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain: Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has made a profession… Read more
“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.” Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Read more
My father bought some books online recently. Doesn’t seem all that unusual, really – he told me he was waiting for the package to get there, because he thought they should have arrived already. Then he said they were for sale on Amazon, but he’d bought them from the Kindle store “because they were cheaper.” Sure. But my dad doesn’t… Read more
Thought I would share my current book with you. I’ve been looking forward to this one, and it’s nice to have a little time to read again! Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman: Introducing an instant classic – master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths. Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in… Read more
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.” The Old Man and The Sea Ernest Hemmingway Read more
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” Neuromancer William Gibson Read more
“They shoot the white girl first.” Paradise Toni Morrison Read more
“Call me Ishmael.” Moby-Dick Herman Melville Read more