Title The Rose Code Author Kate Quinn Copyright 2021 Type Historical Fiction View/Purchase Amazon Finished Reading February 9, 2022 Rating ★★★★ This historical fiction novel explores the lives of 3 young British women, Osla, Mab, and Beth, from 1939 to 1947 as they work in the war effort at Bletchley Park in England. Osla is… Continue reading The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
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Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
Title Oh William! Author Elizabeth Strout Copyright 2021 Type Fiction Purchase/View Amazon Finished Reading December 10, 2021 Rating ★★★★ This is Elizabeth Strout’s third book centered on Lucy Barton. First was a book of short stories: My Name is Lucy Barton (2016), followed by Anything is Possible (2017), and now Oh, William (2021). In this… Continue reading Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
Reading: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Amor Towles’ novel A Gentleman in Moscow is a fantastic novel, so when he published this book I jumped on it. In terms of characters, plot, and setting the two novels could not be more different. Instead of focusing (mostly) on one man living in internal exile in a Moscow hotel for years, Towles’ new novel follows four boys on a journey from a Nebraska farm to Manhattan and then California.
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Reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
reading multiple novels by the same author, so I was excited when I picked up this novel by the author of “All the Light We Cannot See”. Although the plot of this new novel could hardly be more different from the first, there are still themes and motifs that carry through.
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Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
As the adage goes: be careful what you wish for. After finishing Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig on September 1 I was wishing for a novel that was more plausible. Well I got that wish with Saint Maybe which is so realistic that at times it borders on grim. Bee Bedloe looks at her family through rose colored glasses:
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