Reviews of books.
“Mrs. Dalloway” ©1925 by Virginia Woolf The events of this book all take place in one day. The day that Mrs. Dalloway is giving a party. We start in the morning with Mrs. Dalloway buying flowers for the party and the day and story ends at the end of the party. In each chapter/section we …
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“Mansfield Park” ©1814 by Jane Austen As always, such good writing! Lovely dialog, interesting characters. Fanny Price must be about the most boring and pure and good person in literature and therefore must not be interesting to read about. Yet, if you really pay attention there is a lot going on inside her head. She …
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“Everything I Never Told You” ©2014 by Celeste Ng While this was a compelling story, I just can’t read any more Celeste Ng. (I have also read “Little Fires Everywhere”) It was so melancholy. Not that every book I read has to have the perfect happy ending, but there are several authors who delight in …
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“Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law” ©2021 by Mary Roach Mary Roach is an engaging author who traveled around the USA and the world asking questions about how people and governments enacted policies to control plants and animals that were deemed a problem by people. I found the book interesting in several ways. First how …
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“Heresy: An Elizabethan Thriller” ©2010 by S.J. Harris An Italian ex-monk is sent to Oxford College in England as a scholar to debate if the earth is the center not only of the solar system but of the whole universe. He, Bruno, is also a spy. Copernicus has somewhat recently figured out that the earth …
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“A Passage to India” ©1924 by E. M. Forster This is a seemingly simple story set in 1920’s colonial India. Not a whole lot happens. However, we are given a clue as to what the story is actually about in the opening conversation amongst the natives of India “discussing as to whether or no it …
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“Death in the Clouds” ©1935 by Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot is aboard an airplane traveling from France to England. While he is sleeping during the flight, someone is murdered. Even though nobody witnessed anything unusual, there are only a few possibilities as to who could be the murderer. It takes the “little grey cells” and …
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“I am the Messenger” ©2002 by Markus Zusak Ed, at 19, is at a stale point in his life and really has no ambitions. After a seemingly accidental event, his life takes an unexpected turn. He is requested, by means of playing cards with addresses on them, to help random people. He does and as …
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“The Wizard Hunters” ©2003 by Martha Wells This is a fantasy novel and the first book in “The fall of Ile-Rien” series. I enjoyed the world-building and the characters. Three separate races are introduced here from three separate worlds. One world where magic is revered and studied, one world where magic is feared and the …
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Dear Readers, It has been a while since I have sat down to do some writing; the summer has been fun and busy, full of all sorts of things. As always, I read some really wonderful books over the summer. Highlights from June: “The Starless Sea” by Erin Morgenstern I liked that that the main …
