Book Review: Caleb’s Crossing
Another powerful piece of historical fiction from Geraldine Brooks, Caleb’s Crossing is the story of Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard in 1665. The narrator is...
View ArticleBook Review: I Know This Much Is True
Dominick Birdsey, the narrator and main character of Wally Lamb’s sprawling novel, is a man struggling to come to terms with a life marred by tragedy. The novel moves through a year of that life,...
View ArticleMormons: Fact and Fiction
I have been on something of a Mormon binge since I picked up The Night Journal late last year, and I’ve been trading off fiction and non-fiction since then. Crook’s story included a character who had...
View ArticleReading Round Up
My reading hiatus ended! It seems I’ve had a book in my hand every free minute since my last post, usually in the evening or early in the morning before the day really swings into action. Living with...
View ArticleMusing About Monarchs: Richard III
How fortunate that it is Musing Mondays day at Should Be Reading…I’m ready to muse on my last read: The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman. It is billed as the story of Richard III but because it...
View ArticleReading Roundup
Despite being busy with travel, workshops and the farm, I have managed to get some reading done in the past month. I’ve been working along the shelf of English history. Innocent Traitor: A Novel of...
View ArticleMy Favorite Books So Far in 2012
I’ve read two books in the past week that I would declare to be my favorites so far…The Night Circus and The Family Fang. Interestingly enough, both deal with the complicated relationship between...
View ArticleFinally…
I have been reading a bit in this new year, but it seems to take me a long time to finish a book with just a few minutes here and there. Work has kept me busy, and we filled the last three Saturdays...
View ArticleThe Potential Problem with First Person
I seem have to stumbled into a mystery series cycle lately. I read the first two books in the Josiah Reynolds series, set in Lexington, Kentucky. The main character is a middle age beekeeper whose...
View ArticleSmall Print, Lots of Names, Too Many Details
During March, I plunged into reading, tackling some two serious reads as part of several challenges on LibraryThing. I blogged about the idea of reading challenges on my education blog. “Gamifying”...
View ArticleA Little Suspense At the End of the Year
I joined the 75 book challenge at LibraryThing and made it to my goal by mid-October. About half were my “own tomes,” that is books I have owned for some time. Most of those ended up on the give away...
View ArticleFive Favorite Books from 2015
In the spirit of LibraryThing’s Top Five Books for 2015, here are mine: A Man Called Ove: I just finished this in preparation for a book club I’m attending next week. What a wonderful uplifting read!...
View ArticleMid-January Reading Review
I have completed five very different books so far this year, including one audio book: Library of Souls Crossing to Safety Bitter Seeds (audio) A Spool of Blue Thread Venetian Betrayal Here are my...
View ArticleSlow Reading Plus Loving My Library
Finished The Accidental Tourist and liked it more than A Spool of Blue Thread: maybe a stronger plot with clearer connections between the characters. Anne Tyler tells human stories with characters that...
View ArticleLeaderships Lesson from Rebel Yell
NB: Cross posted from In Another Place, my professional blog I have been fascinated with the Civil War since first seeing Ken Burns’ epic documentary. Moving to Virginia fueled that fascination, and I...
View ArticleReading Roundup
Despite being busy with travel, workshops and the farm, I have managed to get some reading done in the past month. I’ve been working along the shelf of English history. Innocent Traitor: A Novel of...
View ArticleMy Favorite Books So Far in 2012
I’ve read two books in the past week that I would declare to be my favorites so far…The Night Circus and The Family Fang. Interestingly enough, both deal with the complicated relationship between...
View ArticleFinally…
I have been reading a bit in this new year, but it seems to take me a long time to finish a book with just a few minutes here and there. Work has kept me busy, and we filled the last three Saturdays...
View ArticleA Prose Poem: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
The year is moving right along, and I have finished my first book. I decided to start with a “challenging” book this year.James Agee and Walker Evans combined stunning words and arresting images to...
View ArticleCorrecting The Flight Path: Review of We Never Asked for Wings
We Never Asked for Wings is a compelling story of a mother and son who were willing to break the rules to make life better for someone else. Letty Esposito was just 16 when her son Alex was born; Wes,...
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