The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani
I quickly got caught up in The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, an atmospheric, well-written coming of age novel set …
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The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
A slender book, at eighty-one pages, but one that makes a big impact. Its subject: the final reflections of Mary, …
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both…” Did you ever wonder what your …
Cascade by Maryanne O’Hara
I’d anticipated reading Cascade, because its central action is a source of sad fascination: the deliberate flooding of several small …
The Gods of Heavenly Punishment by Jennifer Cody Epstein
I love history and I love fiction; so I should read a lot of historical fiction. But it can be …
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
I’m falling a bit behind in my posts, so The Light Between Oceans has to get short shrift. It initially …
Seduction by M.J. Rose
Ah, those summer reading lists, with their fleeting summaries. A blurb about Seduction, a new novel by M.J. Rose, described …
A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir
Time to pull out Rebecca Fraser’s The Story of Britain once again. I wanted to be sure I had my …
Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt
I’ve loved some of A.S. Byatt‘s other works—Possession and The Children’s Book (both novels) and The Matisse Stories (a collection …
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
Having written some tourism-boosting articles about southeastern Massachusetts in my younger days, I was aware that Mr. & Mrs. Tom …
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