international authors
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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 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
I am currently reading A Grain of Wheat by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. This novel is set during the state of emergency in Kenya’s struggle for independence, from 1952–59. It follows a character with a secret from his time… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
I finished The Lion Women of Tehran, and loved it! I am always amazed at the cyclical way that some relationships continue, like the two main characters in this book. It is sometimes wild to see who my husband and… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
Hi all! What are you reading? I am finishing my literary travel through Turkey with There Are Rivers in the Sky. This is my favorite book so far, besides Anne of Green Gables, which I have read many times before.… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
I made Chile my next stop in my literary adventure, with the novel Eva Luna by Chilean author Isabel Allende. It follows the life of a young, orphaned storyteller who navigates poverty, political turmoil, and personal adventures in a South… Continue reading
