A somewhat random reader of both fiction and world history. I'll read the first couple of pages of an interesting-looking book in the store, and if I'm impressed, I'll buy it. Never got into eBooks. I like turning paper pages.
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The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a …
This is a remarkable book, though often depressing as to be expected. The legal details are made very accessible. I'll be paying a visit to EJI.org!
True Grit is Charles Portis' most famous novel--first published in 1968. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is …
The book sometimes tries too hard, and is occasionally laborious to read as a result, but it's a compelling, worthwhile read.
The Thirteenth Tale (2006) by Diane Setterfield is a gothic suspense novel, the author's first published book.
Invisible Man is the story of a young black man from the South who does …
A compelling mix of narrative and philosophy, sadly as relevant as ever.
Examines the Stuart dynasty during a turbulent seventeenth century marked by civil war, the execution …
More accessible than the first two, simply because less time and fewer monarchs are covered. I'll be reading all three again and taking notes.
A shocking secret behind a young boy's death leads to three generations of treachery in …
I didn't rate it higher only because I've read many of Follett's books and see redundancies in his characterizations of protagonists and antagonists. But the story is well developed and paced, and as always, the reader gets a wonderful sense of what life was like during this period of history.
Martin Stillwater has a vivid imagination. It charms his loving wife, delights his two little …
Reasonably well written and the usual brain candy from Dean Koontz.
Accessible and informative. Best to study the timeline of succession prior to reading, to avoid being overwhelmed.
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It …
Pervasive wit and interesting character studies are offset somewhat by a less-than-compelling main character and plot.
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is …
The character study is interesting enough to make the supernatural parts of the storyline seem superfluous, but a worthwhile read nonetheless.
Un hombre se despierta aterrorizado: sufre una especie de resaca y no tiene la menor …
Compelling and smart... in other words, typical Follett.
Korean-American Henry Park is a "surreptitious, B+ student of life, illegal alien, emotional alien, yellow …
Over-thought in a couple of places, though that is partly the point, but a completely worthwhile read from an underrepresented point of view.
Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides …
Often too stylistically written for its own good, but a worthwhile read.
