Dining with Squirrels

I didn’t know what a “British cozy” was but this book was billed as one so I tried it. If it’s representative of the genre, a British cozy is a murder mystery that takes place in a small village and has a cast of likeable characters about which you don’t learn much. It was diverting.

Young adult novel about Beatrice Prior, born into the Abnegation faction in dystopian Chicago. At age 16, she is allowed to choose her faction and defies her family’s wishes to become Dauntless. There, she meets her trainer Tobias who teaches her to be a fighter — and with whom she falls in love. Action-packed, interesting […]

Linda gave this to me for her birthday. I haven’t read a John Irving novel since A Prayer for Owen Meany. I had forgotten what crazy character Irving creates and the real pathos of their lives that he writes with such humor and frankness. Billy is a bisexual growing up in 1960’s New England at […]