by Hillary Jordan, 2009, Algonquin Books This is a story of a white family in the Mississippi Delta area and their lives as they move onto some property they purchased shortly after WWII. It centers on race relations with their … Continue reading →
by Patrick Taylor, Audiobook narrated by John Keating, 2008, Macmillan Audio This is the second of a series by Patrick Taylor focusing on the life of two doctors in a small town in Northern Ireland. One of the doctors is … Continue reading →
by Kate Atkinson, Audiobook narrated by Fennela Woolgar, 2013, Hachette Audio This book is based on an interesting idea: What if a person died but came back to life to live another life based on different choices made? It’s as … Continue reading →
by Ken Follett, Audiobook narrated by John Lee, 2014, Penguin Audio This is the last book in the trilogy. Thank goodness! While the book walked me back through a time in history that I lived through, I never really liked … Continue reading →
by Amor Towles, 2016, Viking This is a lovely book, slow paced and articulate. It is a story of a nobleman in Russia who is declared a non-person by the Communist Party after the revolution and is sentence to live … Continue reading →
by Sue Grafton, 1988, Henry Holt & Company, Inc., New York This is the first book by Sue Grafton that I have read. It was in a pile of books that we inherited from my mother-in-law and I picked it … Continue reading →
by Randy Wayne White, 2016, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York This is probably the worst Doc Ford book I have read. It is very disjointed and hard to follow. There seems to be no transitions to give the reader the … Continue reading →
by Jason Matthews, 2013, Scribner This novel was enjoyable to read and provided a great deal of insight into the various spycraft used by the agents such as the routines used to tail a target which were particularly interesting. There … Continue reading →
by Pat Conroy, 2009, Random House, New York This is an interesting book about a person growing up in Charleston, South Carolina, and his relationships with other individuals in his life. It is well-written and provides a sense of living … Continue reading →
by Charlotte MacLeod, 1984, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York This book is a short murder mystery that takes place in the Boston area. It has quite a bit of humor and the characters are interesting (albeit somewhat … Continue reading →