Notes on Books & Life
I read The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair on my Sony Reader, thanks to NetGalley. It’s out tomorrow, June 15, from Grand Central Publishing. About the Book: Rakhee Singh is a young woman when, as The Girl in the Garden opens, she leaves her fiancé and engagement ring behind and sets off to …
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The Great Lenore by JM Tohline found its way to me via Atticus Books. It’s out this Wednesday, June 15! About the Book: Instead of the usual summary, I thought I’d share the first few lines of The Great Lenore from the ARC I read: “When I met Lenore, she’d been dead for four days. …
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Welcome, Cutting for Stone reading buddies! As usual, if you haven’t read Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese and plan to, you might want to skip this post and its comments, as spoilers are fair game. So far I’ve read through part 2, page 223 in my paperback copy. I was told on several occasions …
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The Classics Reclamation Project is my personal challenge to read and enjoy the classics. I came across One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (whose name I can almost spell now without looking it up) while perusing my library’s downloadable audiobooks. It was a classic, it was narrated by Frank Muller …
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden found its way onto my TBR list after I read Nymeth’s review over on things mean a lot. About the Book: Annie and Liza are seniors in high school when their paths first happen to cross at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They are immediately drawn to one …
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