Heartburn by Nora Ephron
I haven’t read anything by Nora Ephron but came across Heartburn as an audiobook read by Meryl Streep and it … More Heartburn by Nora Ephron
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Dr No by Percival Everett
God help us. Nothing happened. p278 I am a very recent reader of Percival Everett, starting with The Trees which … More Dr No by Percival Everett
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
On my third attempt I managed to get into the book and I am so glad I did. I loved … More Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Americana (and the act of getting over it) by Luke Healy
Healy has never hiked or really camped but decides to walk from the Mexican border up to the Canadian border … More Americana (and the act of getting over it) by Luke Healy
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
You would expect a book of import from a Nobel Prize winner for Literature and that is what you get … More Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Last Highway by R. J. Ellory
You don’t come across many writers from Birmingham (UK) that write about the Appalachians in the United States but that … More The Last Highway by R. J. Ellory
Either/Or by Elif Batuman
This book took a rather long time before I started to understand what it was about. I was going to … More Either/Or by Elif Batuman
The Snake Head by Patrick Radden Keefe
On June 6th 1993 near Breezy Point in New York, a ship, the Golden Venture, ran aground and amidst many … More The Snake Head by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Elwood Curtis is a young black man who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time: he is … More The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
I loved Less is Lost just as much as I loved the first book: Less. In Less is Lost we … More Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer