Out of Africa
In the Country of Others is about Mathilde, a young Catholic French woman, falls in love with Amine Belhaj, a Muslim Moroccan soldier who is fighting in France during World War II. She moves to Morocco when he is released from his military service. Briefly they live...
As someone whose ranching family lived through the Dust Bowl and its series of droughts to the point of nearly losing land that had been in the family since the 1870s, I found Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s fascinating. Author Worster does a bang-up job...
I am not usually one for humorous books, but Tartufo caught my eye, largely because it is set in Italy where I lived for a number of years. The village of Lazzarini Boscarino is dying. Young folks have all left, heading to Milan or other big cities. The old mayor died...
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 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...
In the Country of Others is about Mathilde, a young Catholic French woman, falls in love with Amine Belhaj, a Muslim Moroccan soldier who is fighting in France during World War II. She moves to Morocco when he is released from his military service. Briefly they live...
As someone whose ranching family lived through the Dust Bowl and its series of droughts to the point of nearly losing land that had been in the family since the 1870s, I found Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s fascinating. Author Worster does a bang-up job...
I am not usually one for humorous books, but Tartufo caught my eye, largely because it is set in Italy where I lived for a number of years. The village of Lazzarini Boscarino is dying. Young folks have all left, heading to Milan or other big cities. The old mayor died...
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...
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