Kindred


Book Reviews

Kindred takes place in 1976 and in 1815.  Dana a young African-American woman periodically experiences dizziness and black outs which enable her to go back in time to 1815.  The experience of going back to the slave days is shocking and terrible for her in the beginning.  She is extremely distressed since she has no […]

February 15, 2022

24 Books to Christmas – Day 19


24 Books to Christmas

Today’s recommendation is a book by Philip Roth, the prolific 20th century American author who died last year in the month of May.  Now I’m sure some of you might be ready to sign off my post, since you’ve seen I’m plugging a book by Roth.  I beg of you to stay with me and […]

December 19, 2019

24 Books to Christmas – Day 12


24 Books to Christmas

Epic novels are my jam.  This epic novel, I’m recommending today, I had the pleasure of reading for a second time this year.  That’s The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.   This story is told from multiple points of view – Orleanna, Nathan Price’s wife , and their four daughters.  We never hear the voice of […]

December 12, 2019

Barkskins


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Barkskins is Annie Proulx’s fifth novel, which was released in January 2016.  Epic, powerful, and engaging from page one, Barkskins follows two Frenchmen René and Duquet who are indentured to a seigneur Trépagny in New France. There they are to become barkskins, wood cutters.  From these two men the reader follows their lineage and the […]

March 6, 2017

Beauty is a Wound


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August 4, 2016

My Book Club Shortlist 2016-2017


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June 26, 2016