The Forgery of Venus: A Novel by Michael Gruber What would it be like to live a life in which you cannot trust your memory or your senses to tell you what is true or even who you are? Charles “Chaz” Wilmot lives that nightmare in The Forgery of Venus, the latest novel by Michael [...]
#59 ~ Gardens of Water
15 Feb By 9 Comments
Gardens of Water: A Novel by Alan Drew Gardens of Water tells the story of how the lives of a working class, conservative Muslim family from outside of Istanbul were impacted by the horrible earthquake of 1999. Sinan Basioglu, a hard-working man with a club foot, tries to do his best by his family and [...]
#55 ~ Stealing Buddha’s Dinner
27 Jan By 5 Comments
Stealing Buddha’s Dinner: A Memoir by Bich Minh Nguyen Sometime toward the end of the year I was adding some books to my library on LibraryThing and wanted to add a book I received from my parents for Christmas the year before. It is a book of vintage postcards from Grand Rapids, my home town. [...]
#54 ~ Dreamers of the Day
31 Dec By Leave a Comment
Dreamers of the Day: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell This novel tells the story of Agnes Shanklin, a dowdy, severely skeptical 40-year-old spinster who still needs the reassurance of her mother’s approval before making any decision. When Mumma and the rest of her family dies during the influenza epidemic, Agnes inherits a small fortune. [...]
Early Christmas Pressies for Literate Housewife
20 Dec By 2 Comments
I have had the most wonderful things happen to me over the past two days – I’ve received two free books in the mail!!! Yesterday there was a package waiting for me from Simon and Schuster. I thought it might be the book that I snagged as part of LibraryThing‘s Early Reviewers group. When I [...]
New Places I Love
2 Nov By 5 Comments
Throughout this year my WWW view of books and reading has expanded a great deal. It’s not long after you start righting about the books you’ve read that you start wandering looking for others who might be like you. I’ve found two great places to go this year that I would love to share with [...]
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