Books

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach was a nice companion to the movie I saw last year. As with any book, it offered in depth internal dialog and background that a movie could never serve.  The movie condensed a couple characters and removed complete story lines. The book was quite full in comparison […]

Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #1) by Laurell K. Hamilton was recommended last spring when the last Sookie Stackhouse book was released. With no new Charlaine Harris vampire novels in the queue, we fanswere looking for something else in the genre and the Anita Blake series was an option. I resisted for a while

When the movie Cloud Atlas was reviewed last year on Fresh Air by David Edelstein, the message was clear: You’re Better Off Reading The Book. So I put my name on the list at the library. The story begins with a mid-19th century tale with he language being similar to Moby Dick. I was confused

Because I so enjoyed listening to David Rakoff’s storytelling on This American Life, I wanted to hear Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel by in his native voice. I already had an unusual relationship with this book, having read this aloud to myself since it was written in iambic pentameter and I wanted

I am easily swayed by what my fellow Goodreads group members read. I get daily updates of what my “book friends” want to read and what they have finished reading. When I see that at least two people have read a book, I become curious about it and often put it on my “to read”