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...

It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty...And Other Tragedies of Married Life, 1968 People & Other Aggravations, 1970 1999, Persephone Books Ltd....

Did you know that young readers are creating a sensation posting short videos of themselves reading and recommending books on TikTok ?...

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

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion Vintage, 2013 This title may hit you wrong if you're religious, but...

1985, Bracken Books I bought this book for my Mom in England while traveling with Sue in 1985, and recently decided to read through it...

Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse 2019, Harper We2 bookclub rates this book: Christine: This data-driven...

Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe 2003, William Morrow and Company We2 bookclub rating: Two...

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

My Dad passed away on January 10, 2021, a little more than 6 months after my Mom. He loved singing, laughing, talking, trees, flowers,...

2019, Editions Gallimard (The Cid's Last Winter) not available in English Gérard Philipe (1922 - 1959), the brilliant French actor of his...

with David Teboul 2019, Les Arènes The title translates "Dusk at Birkenau", but no English version seems to be available (although Kindle...

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...

2002, 2020, Editions Plon Avocate Irrespectueuse (Disrespectful Lawyer), Not available in English. If you're like my mother was, as soon...

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...

1857 The Professor was Charlotte Brontë's first novel, written before Jane Eyre but published posthumously. It's a love story between the...

1953, William Heinemann Ltd I was entirely fascinated with this biography of the Brontë family focused mainly on Charlotte. Margaret Lane...

2011, Knopf The Buddha in the Attic opens in the early 1900's. A boat full of young Japanese "picture brides" are on their way to the...