2020, HarperCollins I think I'm being, as usual, quite overly optimistic thinking I can do this post before boarding my plane in about an...

1942, Williams Verlag 2013, University of Nebraska Press Translated by Anthea Bell In this autobiographical text which has been called...

2021, Summertime North Carolina Shibumi shading my chéri Chéri charading Crabby couple Cute couple All the cousins at once, but aunt not...

Bella Figura: How to Live, Love and Eat the Italian Way 2018, Bloomsbury Journalist Kamin Mohammadi is overworked, overweight and just...

2014, Penguin Press Another gift from Julia (thank you!), who reported being hooked on this book by Celeste Ng (pronounced -ing). With...

2019, Random House Julia gave me this novel about a fictional surrogate birthing clinic where women give birth to provide children for...

Read this book! My neighbor lent it to me following an across-the-rose-bushes discussion about topics ranging from the search for a...

Gale Cengage Learning, 1992 My physical therapist, a big fan of relationship books, told me all about this one while massaging my...

2020, Melville House Publishing Hello readers, as you can see I'm not exactly up to date. I would have liked to published this Ruth Bader...

2004, Picador This fictionalized account of the life of writer Henry James during the years 1895-1899 is oh, so beautifully written....

2019, Harper, HarperCollins Our bookclub rating: 👍 Thanks to my bookclub bestie, Jane, for reminding me of her thoughts on this past...

Simon & Schuster, 2020 Michele says: 👍 In this unlikely combination thriller/whodunnit/remedy for the anxious, a group of people are...

Flatiron Books, 2020 Michele says: 👍 This book about a mother and son immigrating to the US from South America is a thriller, but at the...

2019, Bantam Press Michele's review: 👍 This chronicle of Yip-William's fight to live her life to the fullest in the face of terminal...

1993, Scribner Reasons to read this book: hope & love (don't expect romance), writing, and humor. For more details and to make up your...

1963, Julliard Anne Philipe wrote this moving book after the premature death of her husband, actor Gérard Philipe, at age 37. It is...

1882, Poe's Poetical Works, Moxon's Popular Poets The other day at lunch, Jo, Annie and I were talking about birds; lovebirds Annie had...

1985, Triad Grafton Although a Booker Prize winner, Hotel du Lac is not my favorite Brookner. Possibly the dreary bleakness of the...

Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids 2015, Picador Julia read this collection of essays...

First published in 1929 2019, Persephone Books Thanks to Sue for sending me Expiation, a reflection on social expectations and...