It’s that most wonderful time of year to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! One of the nice things about the long winter nights is that instead of working outside in the yard or garden till dark, I get to curl up at my favorite place on the couch with a hot cup of tea and …
November 2022 Books Read with Short Reviews
Books one through five of The Dark is Rising Sequence: “Over Sea, Under Stone” ©1965 by Susan Cooper “The Dark is Rising” ©1973 by Susan Cooper “Greenwitch” ©1974 by Susan Cooper “The Grey King” ©1975 by Susan Cooper “Silver on the Tree” ©1977 by Susan Cooper I haven’t read a book series straight through for …
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October 2022 Books Read with Short Reviews
“Down and Out in Paris and London” ©1933 by George Orwell A young English man, down on his luck in Paris, lives in poverty and finds a grueling job at a hotel restaurant. With the promise of a job in London, he moves back, only to find he has a month to wait before he …
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September 2022 Books Read with Short Reviews
“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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August 2022 Books Read with Short Reviews
“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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July 2022 Books Read with Short Reviews
“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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June 2022 Books Read with Short Reviews
“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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Reading Routines
I am sure everyone’s reading routines evolve and change over the years as life circumstances change. I think back to when I was a child growing up and the only routine I remember is reading before I fell asleep or at least as long as I could get away with sneak reading huddled near the …
May 2022 Books Read with Short Reviews
“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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April 2022 Books Read with Short Reviews
“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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