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Monthly Archives: October 2015

A Window Opens

Thursday, October 15, 2015

I read this in one day and it felt a little like work. I just felt like I was reading the authors journals in book/fiction form. Her observations of the minutia of parenthood were very funny, but the store is a wearisome one that I find myself seeing over and over: mother goes back to […]

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Wicked

Thursday, October 15, 2015

I loved it! I certainly didn’t track entirely with all the philosophical underpinnings but admire Maguire nevertheless for his excellent writing and story telling. Complicated but not obtuse, entertaining but NOT fluffy. Delicious.

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Wild: From Lost To Found On The Pacific Coast Trail

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Oh, do I love a travelogue. And such a well-written one, well I just devoured it. Let me quote Dwight Garner from the New York Times, who so ably put words to my feelings: “The cumulative welling up I experienced during Wild was partly a response to that too infrequent sigh: that of a writer […]

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The Apothecary

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Janie moves with her parents to London in 1952. She meets Ben, the son of an apothecary…who is more than an apothecary…. Adventure ensues! I LOVED this book. Thanks for the recommendation, Lorilyn.

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husband and wife

Monday, October 5, 2015

Sarah Prices’ husband has written a novel title Infidelity. When he tells her that it’s based on fact — the fact of his infidelity to her — she reels, trying to decide to stay or go. The first-person narration made Sarah’s pain so personal and present and TRUE. Painfully so, actually. I was tired by […]

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Escape From Camp 14

Friday, October 2, 2015

Shin Dong-hyuk was BORN in a North Korean prison camp. He is one of I think 3 people known to have escaped from the camps which sound like Nazi concentration camps. Except they have been in existence for 50 YEARS. This book has me sick at heart.

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