Category Archives: 4 stars

Lauren Winner’s website I heard Lauren Winner speak at the Faith & Writing Festival one year. It was several years ago and she seemed quite young but I liked her a lot. I liked the way she just said whatever, … Continue reading →

“Fresh Air” interview w Isaacson Steve Jobs is a fascination. He was so mysterious. You heard so many rumors about him, you saw him on t.v., you heard him quoted, you were amazed at the products his company produced, he … Continue reading →

New York Times Article I liked Joan Didion’s book The Year of Magical Thinking and I liked this one, too. They are similar in that they are both memoirs about the death of a beloved family member. Magical Thinking was written during … Continue reading →

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=mavis-moon&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1463604734&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrOur book club chose this “old school” book. Alexandre Dumas is most famous for having written The Three Musketeers. This book is much shorter than that one. It’s set in Holland, and the title is referring to an actual flower. … Continue reading →

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=mavis08-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1400075769&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrI enjoyed this book. The main character is Greenie, wife of Alan, mother of George. They live in a small apartment in New York. Greenie started her own business as a baker, and Alan is a psychoanalyst. George is 4 … Continue reading →

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=mavis08-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0812976363&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrI liked this book a lot. At first I thought it was kind of confusing. There were a lot of characters, and their names were either Japanese or Dutch, both kind of strange to remember, although the Dutch ones had … Continue reading →

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=mavis08-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0812981227&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrSo very British. That’s this novel — Anglophiles, you’ll love it. I was trying to underline very British-sounding sentences but, of course, I got caught up in the story and only remembered once or twice. Here are a few. And … Continue reading →

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=mavis08-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0425238695&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrI finished The Postmistress this week. I liked it a lot. It definitely kept me turning the pages. In fact, I finished it very late at night because I didn’t want to stop reading. The book starts with a kind of … Continue reading →

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=mavis08-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1400064163&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrUnbroken is by Laura Hillenbrand, who wrote Seabiscuit. I like both these books. Hillenbrand is a good writer who can make non-fiction interesting. I don’t read as much non-fiction as fiction but I’ve always liked biographies because they are still … Continue reading →

http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=mavis08-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0312429983&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrThe librarian at Sinaloa recommended Wolf Hall to me, and then so did several other people. It’s about Thomas Cromwell, a novel but historical fiction. When I first opened the book I was worried I might not be able to keep … Continue reading →