Monday, November 22, 2021

****Look at Us, by T.L. Toma

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  Look at Us is about a couple who are well-educated, have good jobs, and live in NYC with their two children and au pair. The parents live...
Sunday, October 3, 2021

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Curl  by T.O. Bobe A brilliant novel, Curl evokes universal feelings of love and loneliness through the world of Mr. Gica, the greates...
Monday, July 26, 2021

****The Widow by Georges Simenon

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  This was my first novel, of memory, from Georges Simenon’s vast collection. It did not disappoint. Think of Zola’s, Therese Raquin, or ...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

****Eleven Sooty Dreams by Manuela Draeger

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  I am not a fan of dystopian novels (the author defines his work as post - exotic literature, which I'm not disputing; I am merely in...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

****Ere the Cock Crows by Jens Bjørneboe

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LibraryThing.com Early Review Norwegian Literature Three childhood friends. One is a doctor performing “medical” experiments in a Nazi pri...
Friday, July 9, 2021

****Seven by Farzana Doctor

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 LibraryThing Early Review A well written novel that covers contemporary Khatna (female genital cutting) among the Indian Bohras.  The aut...

*****Love Like Water, Love Like Fire by Mikhail Iossel

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 LibraryThing Early Review Memory either confirms or refutes the very fact of our own existence.   Iossel portrays an often absurd and...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

2021 Books Read 01/01/2021-12/31/2021

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*****The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World, by Laura Messina , 2020, Italian Literature  *****In the Shawdow of Young Girls in Flower, by...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

Books Read 8/1/2020-12/31/2020

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****Breasts and Eggs , by Mieko Kawakami , 2020 Japanese Literature  ****Follow Me to Ground,  by  Sue Rainsford, 2020, Irish  Literature  *...
Saturday, August 22, 2020

****The Theory of Flight by Siphiwe Ndlovu

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 LibraryThing.com Early Review  Ndlovu combines her skills as a Zimbabwean filmmaker and writer to tell a generational story depicting extre...