Category Archives: Reading
Reading: Turtles All The Way Down. By John Green
Title: Turtles All The Way Down Author: John Green Type: Fiction Finished: September 14, 2018 Rating: ★★★★ Aza Holmes is a high school woman who is having an existential crisis caused by – or … Continue reading
Reading: Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
Title: Clock Dance Author: Anny Tyler Type: Fiction Finished: August 27, 2018 Rating: ★★★★★ Anne Tyler is a master storyteller probing the lives of the people in dysfunctional families. This is the third … Continue reading
Reading: The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Title: The Godfather Author: Mario Puzo Type: Fiction Date Finished: August 18, 2018 Rating: ★★★★ I caught the last half of this movie last summer – right when Sonny was killed – come on, … Continue reading
Reading: The Republic for Which It Stands by Richard White
Title: The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. 1865-1896 Author: Richard White Date Finished: August 6, 2018 Report Posted: September 4, 2018 Rating: ★★★★★ This book is a comprehensive … Continue reading
Reading: The Final Days of Jesus by Mark D. Smith
SubTitle: The Thrill of Defeat, The Agony of Victory: A Classical Historian Explores Jesus’s Arrest, Trial, and Execution Rating:★★★★ Finished: March 21, 2018 [Image from Amazon] As the subtitle explains, this book is an historical … Continue reading
Reading: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Rating ★★★ Finished: March 3, 2018 My review and rating – as for all my reports – reflects how I react to the book and should not be seen some … Continue reading
Reading: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Rating ★★★★ Finished: January 27, 2018 As in Little Fires Everywhere the driving event of the novel is on the first page: “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.”[p 1] Lydia is a high school teen … Continue reading
