If you’ve ever dreamed of living in the Amazon with native tribes while researching fertility drugs–then “State of Wonder” by Ann Patchett is your book. Marina and her colleague, Anders, are researchers at a pharmaceutical lab. But when Anders travels to South America to check up on the researchers, he dies–and is buried in theContinue reading “Book Reviews: Hit and Miss”
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Book Reviews: Vanishing Children
Both of the books this week are about young girls that go missing. (I think it must be time for my daughter to go back to school.)Anyway. The first book is “Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter” by Tom Franklin. In the ’70s, middle-class white boy Larry Ott was friends for a brief time with Silas Jones, theContinue reading “Book Reviews: Vanishing Children”
Book Review: Short Stories
I’m really not a fan of short stories. I guess I’m just not intellectual enough to understand things that are brief and vague. I need things spelled out for me in novel length. However, the short stories in “Swim Back to Me” by Ann Packer were well-written tales of loss and heartbreak, and the day-to-dayContinue reading “Book Review: Short Stories”
Book Reviews: Supernatural Turnings
I’ve always wanted to be a witch. There are many who believe I’ve accomplished that goal. I picture myself as an enchantress with beautiful red, curly tresses, casting spells and helping those in need. I’m a good witch, of course. In “A Discovery of Witches” by Deborah Harkness, a young college professor tries to surpress herContinue reading “Book Reviews: Supernatural Turnings”
Book Reviews: An Orphan and a Teenage Girl
Oliver Twist Two or three times a year, I’ll dive into a literary classic. Often it’s Jane Austen or Mark Twain but this month was Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist“. Big fan of old Charles, I am. But I’d never read “Oliver Twist” and decided it was high time I did. A vast amount of swooning,Continue reading “Book Reviews: An Orphan and a Teenage Girl”
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