February 2, 2022, The New York Times I know it's never too late to follow your dreams, but this young author thinks it's never too soon...

2016, Penguin Random House Summer 2021: While waiting for my delayed plane, I am trying to post quickly before I forget the details of...

1869 In 2019, I posted War and Peace, one of my favorite books of all time, with just one sentence promising I would "complete this post...

First published 1878 Thank you for your answers to the survey question: What comes to your mind first when you think of Anna Karenina? ...

2014, Penguin Press Another gift from Julia (thank you!), who reported being hooked on this book by Celeste Ng (pronounced -ing). With...

2019, Random House Julia gave me this novel about a fictional surrogate birthing clinic where women give birth to provide children for...

2004, Picador This fictionalized account of the life of writer Henry James during the years 1895-1899 is oh, so beautifully written....

2019, Harper, HarperCollins Our bookclub rating: 👍 Thanks to my bookclub bestie, Jane, for reminding me of her thoughts on this past...

Simon & Schuster, 2020 Michele says: 👍 In this unlikely combination thriller/whodunnit/remedy for the anxious, a group of people are...

1993, Scribner Reasons to read this book: hope & love (don't expect romance), writing, and humor. For more details and to make up your...

1882, Poe's Poetical Works, Moxon's Popular Poets The other day at lunch, Jo, Annie and I were talking about birds; lovebirds Annie had...

1985, Triad Grafton Although a Booker Prize winner, Hotel du Lac is not my favorite Brookner. Possibly the dreary bleakness of the...

First published in 1929 2019, Persephone Books Thanks to Sue for sending me Expiation, a reflection on social expectations and...

Finitude, 2015 Translated into English by Regan Kramer Dear Mr Bourdeaut, Your book inspired me to write to you. It also inspired me to...

2021, Finitude Not available in English (yet) I picked this book up at the grocery store just to see what it was about. I'd read the...

Thanks to Michele, whose childhood was full of Cleary characters, for sending me this news today. Cleary didn't like the books she read...

1848 Anne Brontë was an honest and courageous author who wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to warn against the danger of marrying the...

2019, Bloomsbury Publishing Kat sent me this book after my father died, which touched my heart. Reading gave me somewhere to go no matter...

1997, Jonathan Cape I found this book (also a movie) in my office at Jo’s house. I’d call it a psychological thriller, but it’s not...

No et moi, 2007, Editions Jean-Claude Lattès No and me, 2010, Bloomsbury No and me is the story of a gifted but socially awkward middle...