I love fiction. Favorite authors are Emily St. John Mandel, Kate Atkinson, Jennifer Egan, Colson Whitehead, Rosalie Knecht, and many I can't think of at the moment. I'm getting divorced from Goodreads; it will take some time to rid my life of one more billionaire.
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Ariel Lawhon: The Frozen River (EBook, 2023, Doubleday)
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the …
As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she'd have to make it …
Meh
Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood …
Someone else wrote that her writing is like an art house movie, spare, elegant, elevating the mundane. That is part of the appeal for me. Lilia leaves Eli in Brooklyn just like she always leaves, without notice. She can't stay in one place because she doesn't know how; her childhood was spent endlessly travelling with her fugitive father. You find out why, you meet interesting people, you learn about dead languages and what it's like in Montreal in winter. Now I've read all her books and await the next which I think is due next year.
Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adolescence traveling constantly and …
Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood …
Someone else wrote that her writing is like an art house movie, spare, elegant, elevating the mundane. That is part of the appeal for me. Lilia leaves Eli in Brooklyn just like she always leaves, without notice. She can't stay in one place because she doesn't know how; her childhood was spent endlessly travelling with her fugitive father. You find out why, you meet interesting people, you learn about dead languages and what it's like in Montreal in winter. Now I've read all her books and await the next which I think is due next year.
The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian--who became one of the most powerful …
The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian--who became …
This book breaks my rule about not reading books about librarians but it's not my fault. The story is remarkable. The writing is artless. Marie Benedict writes like a lawyer (because she is one). Nevertheless, the true story about Belle da Costa Greene, JP Morgan's personal librarian, is worth reading. The audiobook narration is just OK. Phrasing is odd and the British accents are fumbled.
One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a …
One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a …
As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she'd have to make it …
