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This week I wanted to review two books rather than my usual one book per post. I also wanted to see if I could write shorter reviews but they are not that easy to write either. Thankfully the Amazon summaries listed below have come to the rescue. I enjoyed both of these historical novels which… Continue reading

“Manhattans and more Manhattans and finally when we got back to the cabin… I was alone with this mad beatnik kid singing me songs and all I wanta do is sleep—But I’ve got to make the best of it and not disappoint his believing heart… My reason for coming to Big Sur for the summer… Continue reading

That Artsy Reader Girl’s Challenge for this week is choose 10 books you want to read for the Fall. It was hard to narrow it down but here is my list: What Angel’s Fear by C. S. HarrisThe Bright Years by Sarah DamoffMurder on Mulberry Bend by Victoria ThompsonA Kind Worth Killing by Peter SwansonJulia… Continue reading

“I first saw Hundreds Hall when I was ten years old. It was the summer after the war, and the Ayreses still had most of their money then ..That must have been the last grand year for Hundreds Hall… Soon afterwards the Ayreses’ daughter died… My mother died when I was fifteen… Colonel Ayres died… Continue reading

“When I try to find a fitting phrase for the time before the First World War, the years in which I grew up, I think the most accurate would be to call it the Golden Age of Security. Everything in our nearly thousand-year-old Austrian monarchy seemed built to last, and the state itself stood as… Continue reading

In June 1974 a Federal judge ruled in Morgan v. Hennigan that the Boston Public School system had been segregating its public schools for years. The remedy was that starting in the fall of 1974 students from white neighborhoods would be bused to attend schools in black neighborhoods and vice versa. The city of Boston… Continue reading

Whistler (2026) is my first time reading Ann Patchett and I went in not knowing what to expect. And let me say the hype surrounding this novel is real. Whistler is going on my top ten list at the end of the year for sure. ​The cover is somewhat misleading. Whistler is not about a… Continue reading

1979 – “What actually happens after a revolution? I could ask, though we’ve answered that too many times already…: class struggle, radical change in the institutions, a dictatorship of the proletariat. But actually, Sohrab and I have just spent the last few days walking around prisons and universities… and actually every program is now full… Continue reading

That Artsy Reader Girl for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday has asked us to choose the book we were reading on August 11 over the past ten years. I’m going to change it a bit to a book I read during the month of August over the past ten years. I can’t find a book… Continue reading

In 2019, a 19-year-old young man by the name of Zac Brettler jumped off the balcony of a London high-rise apartment to his death. At the time it was a story that barely made the news. But the award-winning journalist, Patrick Radden Keefe, based on a conversation he had with a friend of Zac’s family,… Continue reading