Out of Africa
Through sheer serendipity, All That She Carried is the third book in a row I’ve read about the place of objects in our lives and memories. The first two were fiction: Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson and The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk. All That...
The Museum of Innocence is a lovely novel by Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk. Set in 1970s Istanbul, post Ataturk and during several coups, it captures the sense of a country tied to the past while striving for but not quite reaching the future. Pamuk’s...
I must confess I purchased Behind the Scenes at the Museum thinking it was in one of my favorite genre: museum and art-related. However, it was not that at all, but I loved it, nonetheless. The narrator, Ruby Lennox, starts her life at the moment of her conception in...
I chose to read White Mulberry because the author told her grandmother’s story, as I did in one of my own novels, and I wanted to know how she treated her family history. Miyoung, a poor Korean country girl living during the Japanese occupation of Korea just prior to...
Tooth and Claw is the twenty-fifth volume in the Sheriff Walter Longmire series—and like the Hillermans' Leaphorn/Chee novels, I've read and enjoyed every volume. Tooth and Claw doesn’t disappoint. Though it is quite short at 208 pages, it packs a whallop of non-stop...
A Thousand Times Before is a sapphic love and marriage between two women, Ayukta and her wife Nadya. They are pulled apart by one issue: Nadya wants a child, but Ayukta doesn’t. Aykuta has a secret she doesn’t tell her wife until she is about to lose her over the...
I had so much fun doing a big, beautiful, artsy bookish giveaway haul last month, I've decided to do it again! This time, I'm upping the ante by including a $10 Amazon gift card in one of the prize combos. It's only on for eight days, so enter while you can... Good...
Through sheer serendipity, All That She Carried is the third book in a row I’ve read about the place of objects in our lives and memories. The first two were fiction: Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson and The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk. All That...
The Museum of Innocence is a lovely novel by Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk. Set in 1970s Istanbul, post Ataturk and during several coups, it captures the sense of a country tied to the past while striving for but not quite reaching the future. Pamuk’s...
I must confess I purchased Behind the Scenes at the Museum thinking it was in one of my favorite genre: museum and art-related. However, it was not that at all, but I loved it, nonetheless. The narrator, Ruby Lennox, starts her life at the moment of her conception in...
I chose to read White Mulberry because the author told her grandmother’s story, as I did in one of my own novels, and I wanted to know how she treated her family history. Miyoung, a poor Korean country girl living during the Japanese occupation of Korea just prior to...
Tooth and Claw is the twenty-fifth volume in the Sheriff Walter Longmire series—and like the Hillermans' Leaphorn/Chee novels, I've read and enjoyed every volume. Tooth and Claw doesn’t disappoint. Though it is quite short at 208 pages, it packs a whallop of non-stop...
A Thousand Times Before is a sapphic love and marriage between two women, Ayukta and her wife Nadya. They are pulled apart by one issue: Nadya wants a child, but Ayukta doesn’t. Aykuta has a secret she doesn’t tell her wife until she is about to lose her over the...
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