The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 This book was our local book club’s choice for January of this year I thought it was an odd choice as most of the books we read are current non-fiction books. As I read the … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Books
The Nickel Boys: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead, Audiobook narrated by J.D. Jackson, 2019, Random House Audio This is a dramatized novel about two boys who were incarcerated at a boy’s school in Northern Florida. The school was closed a number of years ago but … Continue reading →
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
by Fred Kaplan, 2020, Simon & Schuster This book is about the development of the strategy of national defense and how we would utilize nuclear weapons in the event of a threat to our country. Actually, that statement isn’t exactly … Continue reading →
The Silent Patient
by Alex Michaelides, 2019, Audiobook narrated by Jack Hawkins and Louise Brealey, Macmillan Audio The plot of this book is basically about a psychologist who want to treat a patient in a mental facility who was committed after being accused … Continue reading →
The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood, 2019, Nan A. Talese, Doubleday This book is the sequel to The Handmaiden which was written 34 years prior. The book appears to be in response to the overwhelming attention that the prior book has received in the … Continue reading →
Camino Island: A Novel
by John Grisham, 2017, Audiobook narrated by January LaVoy, Random House Audio This is an enjoyable novel about some of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s original manuscripts of his novels that are stolen from the Princeton University Library. They eventually end up … Continue reading →
Dear Edward: A Novel
by Ann Napolitano, 2020, Audiobook narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Random House Audio This is a story about a young boy who is the only survivor of a commercial plane crash. I had to get used to the way the book … Continue reading →
The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel
by Marie Benedict, 2019, Sourcebooks Landmark This is a novel about Hedy Lamarr and how she came to invent a method to transmit directions to torpedoes in WWII. I enjoyed reading this because it was written in the first person. … Continue reading →
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry: A Novel
by Fredrik Backman, 2015, Narrated by Joan Walker, Simon and Schuster Audio This is a story about a girl whose grandmother dies from cancer. She was very close to her grandmother but didn’t know a lot about her grandmother’s early … Continue reading →
The Janson Directive
by Robert Ludlum, 2002, Audiobook narrated by Paul Michael, Macmillan Audio This is a fast-paced thriller that provides a number of plot twists. The story is about a world philanthropist who is abducted and Paul Janson is asked to rescue … Continue reading →