book review
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Bedside Books
I finished reading Earth Weeps Saturn Laughs by Abdulaziz Al Farsithis. This book is an interesting style, with each chapter narrated by a different character, but I found it jarring. It read more like an anthology than a story. I… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
I finished The Light Between Oceans, and it is my favorite book so far in my 80 books around the world challenge that I hadn’t read before. Such an insightful book, and I highly recommend it. My favorite quote is:… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
I am in Australia on my literary journey with the novel The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman. I have just started it, but according to Google, leaving out any spoilers, it is: “Setting: Janus Rock, a remote and… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
On day 8 of a power outage in Northwest Indiana, I am making serious progress through the large book The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton. My favorite quote from this week is: “Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
My current book, The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, came at a good time. It is a huge, interesting mystery just in time for a power outage here in northwest Indiana. We had a crazy wind storm with 100 mile an… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
I finished reading The Code of the Woosters, written in 1938 by British author P.G. Wodehouse. All of his books are very entertaining in the dry British fashion. I am currently reading the novel Independent People. According to Google, it… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
I have been listening to the audio version of Storm Pegs, the only way I could access it from my library, and was a bit into the book before I realized the author isn’t from Shetland, the country she is… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
The book The Name of the Rose by Italian Umberto Ecowas not my favorite, pretty cynical, but it does have a great description of writing historical fiction craft in the prologue. Great advice! And it did keep me guessing until… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
I am plugging along through my literary journey to India with the novel The Suitable Boy. I am about a quarter of the way through this large but intriguing novel that follows three families during the 1950’s. Here are some… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
I always read more (and therefore get less sleep) when life gets busy, and this May has been no different. A friend of mine said they call it Mayhem, and that sounds about right. Anybody else? On my continuing 80… Continue reading
