Riviera Gold & The Lantern Men: unusual relationships
Riviera Gold by Laurie R. KingThe Lantern Men by Elly Griffiths I just read recent installments in two of my …
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A Jane Austen Education – William Deresiewicz
When William Deresiewicz decided to pursue a Ph.D. in English literature, he had to read classics he’d previously managed to …
Someone To Watch Over Me & The Silence of the Sea – Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Someone To Watch Over Me (English translation, 2013) and The Silence of the Sea (English translation, 2014) are books 5 …
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Recommended by my daughter Meg, consummate speed-reader of vast interests, genres, and forms, Doomsday Book ticked many of my boxes …
The Uncommon Reader: Alan Bennett
In January, I read James Mustich’s 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die—and Uncommon Reader was one of the thirty …
The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories: Otto Penzler, editor
I’ve been reading this anthology (785 pages) slowly, since the beginning of March, dipping in at bedtime or when insomnia …
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
Why did I delay reading this book for so long? I finally brought it to work, where it sat on …
Arcadia by Iain Pears
I loved Arcadia; it’s my favorite book of 2016 (so far, anyway). It encompasses time travel, history/alt-history, romance, clever literary …
Fallen Fret by Ray Richard
I’m as guilty as the next reader of drifting into ruts, defaulting too often to the same genres, settings, and …
Someone by Alice McDermott
Young Marie’s Brooklyn neighbor Pegeen has been having problems keeping her balance as she heads back and forth to work …
