2011, Knopf The Buddha in the Attic opens in the early 1900's. A boat full of young Japanese "picture brides" are on their way to the...

2020, Alfred A. Knopf This is one of several books I've read recently which I would like to post quickly. Why quickly? I'll try to...

2014, Granta Books This account of a woman's struggles related to career, marriage, motherhood and infidelity is written in short...

1977, Random House I found this book in a cozy used bookstore café in Annapolis, Maryland, during a visit with my lovely friend Jessica....

1967, Heinemann 2004, Persephone Books Ltd "Utterly compelling,” said the note attached to my gift copy (thank you, Sue!) of Hilda...

1966, Random House This brilliantly written fictionalized version of the 1831 massacre of more than 50 whites by a group of slaves in...

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz 2011, Macmillan Welcome to Friends are reading...,...

The Dreamer’s Digest 2017, Blessing Okoro Blessing Okoro is a former student of mine who impressed me with her determination. She wrote...

2012, Harper Collins In 1949, in Lake County, Florida, Thurgood Marshall and other lawyers defended the Groveland Boys, four young black...

Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success By Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty 2013, The Penguin Press After watching The Last Dance on Netflix...

On July 2, 2020 my Mom died. Life goes on, it always does, but everything is different in a sometimes slight but always very real way....

A Start in Life (1981), Providence (1982), A Misalliance (1987), Jonathan Cape Ltd Anita Brookner books are a rather odd mix of...

Hello readers! After a 2-month hiatus during the Covid crisis, my friend Jo welcomed me back to the "office", a room in her house where I...

2013, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Before we can expect social change, prostitution must be recognised for the abuse that it is. -Rachel...

2006, Editions Grasset & Fasquelle Available in English, King Kong Theory Diane received this book as a birthday present and left it...

2005, Editions Julliard, Paris In in another chance encounter, I happened to see this book in a pile at Jo’s house. (Jo is my friend who...

2019, Grasset, Paris Worth reading. Jane lent me this book since it was sold out at my local bookstore. She mailed it to me after...

2019, Le Cherche Midi, Paris (The world according to Amazon). Not available in English. So read on! I bought this book at the Gare du...

2014, Sort Of Books, London In Last Days of the Bus Club, the fourth book in the so-called Driving Over Lemons Trilogy, Stewart's...

An Optimist in Andalucia 1999, Sort Of Books, London My colleague Michele left this book in my work cubby. My first thought was “Nope,...