2016, Harper I found this book in my daughter’s apartment, peeking out of her roomate's shelf in the room I was borrowing. I hadn’t...

2015, Quercus Editions Ltd, London How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do...

2018, Fayard In Ce que je peux enfin vous dire (What I can finally tell you), which I bought in the supermarket over a year ago,...

2020, nopublisher A non-book post Yesterday I was talking with Dylan on the phone and he surprised me by saying he’d actually started...

2013, Scribner France: Zéro Déchet, 2013, Editions des Arènes Bea Johnson is a French woman living in the USA. She and her family have...

First published 1957, Victor Gollancz Ltd This thriller is a story of stolen identity between an Englishman and Frenchman, John and ...

2006, Morgan Read Books Are men stronger than women? Some say obviously, others say no way! Michelle Wolf in her stand-up on Netflix...

2014, Spiegel & Grau A Story of Justice and Redemption Julia lent me this book which she read for a law class. Bryan Stevenson is a civil...

2011, Vintage Books 2012, film by Ken Burns, see trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU_kgdeB8yM) I was compelled to read this...

2018, Librairie Arthème Fayard Not available in English Welcome to 2020. Here's my first post of the year. Some of my readers wish I...

2019, Macmillan I highly recommend this book about how our personal data is processed, stored, and made available to governments and...

L'Harmattan, Paris, 2006 While in her 80s, my husband’s great aunt wrote this book about surviving and surpassing a strict religious...

Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy Crown Publishers, 2016 A Mother’s Reckoning is written by the mother of Dylan Klebold who, along with...

The hidden truth about Elli Vossen, the youngest helper of the Secret Annex 2015, Dutch publication, Bep Voskuihl Producties bv,...

Faber & Faber Ltd, UK 2018 HarperCollins Publishers, USA 2018 The first chapter of this book is called "Falling House"; I read just over...

Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions 2018, Bloomsbury Circus If you have ever been down, or felt lost,...

Editions du Seuil, 2017 Marie-Aimée told me about this non-fiction book one day while we were having lunch together. The story sounded...

Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, Paris, 2019 Ginette Kolinka, 94, was deported to Birkenau from France in 1944. She never spoke of her...

Bright White Light, LLC, 2008 In earlier posts I admitted my aversion to dialogue between animals and humans; however, I don't take issue...

Gallimard, Editions Verdier, 1998 My daughter Julia recommended this short book, after reading it for a class. In 1931, natives of the...