A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal Grip this book or your e-reader and turn to page one. Buckle up. Expect turbulence.
Last month Sunny posted a blog she wrote when she finished reading Daniel Woodrell’s novel, The Maid’s Version. She mused about Woodrell’s unhurried language and
Carol and John Steinbeck, Portrait of a Marriage, Susan Shillinglaw’s ground-breaking portrait of Steinbeck’s first marriage. I’d been on a Steinbeck jag (reviewing Steinbeck’s Ghost, rereading
Wrath of the Caid – Book Two of the Red Hand Adventures The Wrath of the Caid starts where Rebels of the Kasbah leaves off.
The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century Every nation remembers the Great War differently. For some there was nothing
The Midwife’s Tale and The Harlot’s Tale Historian Sam Thomas, while researching seventeenth century conflicts between Puritans and Royalists, discovered a will written in 1683.
Another cozy British mystery, another spunky heroine, another assemblage of novels to follow contentedly for years. Frances Brody has added another detective series to my
Dorothy L. Sayers, The Complete Stories Sayers is the 20th century English writer (1893-1957) known for her Christian writing and also, as the cover of
John Henry “Doc” Holliday: Southern landed gentry, classical pianist, consumptive, classicist, dentist, gambler, alcoholic, loyal friend, detective, and horseman. In Russell’s fictional version, Doc Holliday
My Life as a Foreign Country takes us into the nightmare terrain of war. Focusing on Iraq during a 2003 tour of duty, Brian Turner’s
Reviewing books written for readers between the ages of ten and fourteen always leave me feeling a bit like a duck out of water. Middle-reader
Lin Enger sends The High Divide characters into a sequence of improbable, nearly impossible situations. The novel takes place in 1886, when the West was
JACK 1939 Imagine young Jack Kennedy as a spy, commandeered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to innocuously roam Europe and uncover nefarious warmongering
Big Little Lies – Once again Australian novelist Liane Moriarty delves into secrets and the untruths that perpetuate them, turning little lies into big ones.
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found At any moment I expected Frances Larson to quote from Stanley Holloway’s English music hall hit
Is Lisette’s List Susan Vreeland’s best novel to date? In my opinion, yes! Because I so admire Vreeland’s pictorial imagination, I have always enjoyed her
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