- March 27, 2020
I started The Book of Three, the first book in this classic fantasy series by Lloyd Alexander, with a great deal of skepticism. First of all (with the exception of the Harry Potter series), I am not fantasy fan. Secondly, the series involves five books, and when you have a reading wish list ...
Read more… - March 12, 2020
I borrow every baking book we get here and this book by David Norman is my favorite since The Rye Baker by Stanley Ginsberg. They’re similar in scope and difficulty and each provides histories of the breads in each recipe. The difference is that Ginsburg’s book is exclusively rye while Norman’s tackles all sorts of ...
Read more… - March 5, 2020
“The Devil Made Me Do It!”: Crime and Punishment in Early New England, by longtime Bath resident Juliet Haines Mofford, is an excellent and informative read. The book provides detailed stories on the types of crime and the punishments applied in the early days of our country. Whatever the crime — public intoxication, infanticide, ...
Read more… - February 28, 2020
I am a huge fan of graphic memoirs and have ready many over the last few years as these books have grown in popularity. One of my top five graphic memoirs is In Waves written and illustrated by AJ Dungo and published in 2019 by Nobrow Press. This memoir is about surfing, grief, and loss. ...
Read more… - February 20, 2020
I recently finished this little gem of a novel, and was reminded of its sparkle and shine last night after seeing a wonderful interview with the author, Kevin Wilson, on the PBS News Hour. If you are looking for a quick read that will warm your heart on a cold winter day, look ...
Read more… - February 14, 2020
On the surface, this is a story about the life of a
housewife, Mrs Bridge, who lives in Kansas City with her husband and three
children between the two World Wars. Beneath the surface, this novel is
actually about a lonely woman who avoids change at all costs and who cannot
comprehend the fact that she is living an ...
Read more… - February 7, 2020
I spotted Kate Racculia’s Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts on my husband’s nightstand and thought it looked like fun. I wasn’t disappointed! It’s a thoroughly delightful read, set in Boston, so it’s fun to recognize the many names and places in the book.
Tuesday Mooney is a quirky researcher for nonprofits (one reviewer likens her ...
Read more… - January 31, 2020
There There is a gripping debut novel by Tommy Orange. Orange tells the stories of twelve different “Urban Indians,” all at least in part Native American, as they travel to and interact at “The Big Oakland Powwow.” Orange is himself a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma; he uses ...
Read more… - January 23, 2020
The Man With No Face is a standalone mystery/espionage novel by the well-known Scottish author Peter May. It was first published in 1981 under the title Hidden Faces.
As the novel opens, Neil Bannerman, a journalist with Scotland’s Daily Standard, is exiled to Brussels by his angry editor. His assignment is to cover the political ...
Read more… - January 17, 2020
This non-fiction account on “the troubles” in Northern Ireland was on many top ten lists for 2019. Since my knowledge on this subject might not even fill a thimble, and I like “true crime” as a genre, I decided this was a great New Year’s project for me.
Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff ...
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