First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, 1990 Short stories. A revelation for me. Beautiful writing. True. Rhythmic. Pay attention, if you...

Chatto & Windus, 1971 Comparing Murdoch with Lessing... Scenes which made me think of Doris Lessing: -Mrs. Carberry vs retarded son in...

1881 Twain criticizes old England and humans in general through the eyes of a child. Very enjoyable. Recommended to me by my son's friend...

1930 Hard to get into, didn’t really like, shallow feeling. Same for On the Road by Kerouac, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (hard to follow,...

1946 Did not enjoy Delta Wedding. Story of family wedding told from perspective of a 9-year-old girl. Interesting concept but felt like...

Doubleday, 2016 The Underground Railroad becomes a real train ride to freedom from Georgia through the Carolinas, Tennessee and Indiana,...

Dell, 1981 Reacting to the incredulity of his high school students that the holocaust could have happened under the apathetic eyes of a...

Jonathan Cape, 2007 An account, astounding in its frankness, of the expectations and apprehensions of two inexperienced newly weds as...

Anchor Books, 2007 Time has passed since I read this book so my review may be a bit sparse. Fascinating elucidation of the history of the...

2016, Alfred A. Knopf (USA), Viking (UK) Beautiful book, best I've read in awhile. While reading I was reminded of the truth of Tolstoy...

Scribner, 2000 I read King's Carrie when I was 13 years old.  Having outgrown Harlequin romances,  I'd recently borrowed Sidney Sheldon's...

William Morrow Paperbacks, March 2016 Thomas Jefferson’s daughter gives the reader her perspective in this historical fiction...

The New Press 2010 Revised edition with forward by Cornel West 2012 Explores the War on Drugs politics. Shows how the War on Drug is...

Victor Gollancz, 1951 Very well written and entertaining book. The ambiance is rather spooky, sometimes perverse. Marriage is portrayed...