2020 NYT Bestsellers Hardcover Fiction
These 2020 NYT Hardcover Bestsellers are among my favorite books I’ve yet to read. Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing is most excellent. Also check out Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House
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Category: Book Reviews
First Love by Ivan Turgenev–Bool Review
The Russian novella First Love, by Ivan Turgenev I enjoyed reading the Russian novella, First Love...
Read MoreThe Book of Dust–Book Review
I read Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage: last week and was told going in that there were things about the book that are not as good as his previous trilogy, but I’d seen a recommendation for this...
Read MoreCrime and Punishment–Book Review
How did reading Crime and Punishment affect you? Reading Dostoevsky’s classic novel Crime and Punishment wrung me out and left me out to dry emotionally. Like leaving a gizmo in your car’s cigarette lighter and...
Read MoreWar and Peace
My daughters gave me a copy of the 1,358-page version of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace for my birthday in early December. I began reading it on Dec. 7 and finished seventeen days later on Christmas Eve. Considered the best...
Read MoreReaching My Goal — 101 Fiction Novels
Heather Sellers’ 2007 writers’ guide Chapter After Chapter prods anyone interested in becoming a better writer to read 101 Fiction Novels. In December 2016, I set out to do just that, having suffered an injury that...
Read MoreWhen Life Gives You Lululemons
When Life Gives You Lululemons It was something out of character for me to read Lauren Weisberger’s When Life Gives You Lululemons, almost like picking up Cosmopolitan magazine I would think and reading it cover to cover....
Read MoreOne of those ‘God Things’
One of those “God Things” There are times in life when I’ve found myself saying I’m in the middle of one of those “God Things.” Where no amount of my own pushing seems to be getting my...
Read MoreMy Summer Vacation 2018
My Summer Vacation 2018 During my summer vacation 2018 I travelled the world and never left North Texas. How’s that? I read 40 novels and visited at least three other continents, eight other countries, and many other US...
Read MoreKristin Hannah’s The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale is one of the best books I have ever read. On Goodreads, it scores a 4.55 out of 5. There are few books out there with a cumulative score that high. I...
Read MoreThere There by Tommy Orange
There There by Tommy Orange There There by Tommy Orange is one of those profound books that only come along once in a long while. This is a book that should be considered for a Pulitzer or Nobel Prize. It offers such dramatic...
Read MoreCeleste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere I recently read Celeste Ng’s best selling novel, Little Fires Everywhere, and enjoyed the book. It is a very well written novel and worthy of a read. From the beginning, things...
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