Not everyone who grows older wants to know more about the aging process…… The author envisions old age as an opportunity for healing and renewal.
BOOK REVIEW: You’ll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Stories of Elizabeth Taylor, with an introduction by Margaret Drabble — March 2019
Jane highly recommends reading not only this book, but all of the other books written by Elizabeth Taylor, the novelist.
THOUGHTS ON A LIBRARY BOOK BY SUSAN ORLEANS — February 2019
Our Library Director, Pam, so loved this book that she has affixed a signed sticky note by the frontispiece with the message: “If you love libraries I highly recommend this book!”
BOOK REVIEW – LOVE AND FATIGUE IN AMERICA BY ROGER KING — February 2019
Love and Fatigue in America is a story of how a British man (the author) comes to teach in the US and develops ME/cfs (Chronic fatigue syndrome)…. He shares his knowledge of coping with his readers.
BOOK REVIEW: I’ll Think It, You Say It, by Curtis Sittenfeld — December 2018
The plots keep you turning the pages, always wanting more, in the manner of high-level genre fiction by writers like John Grisham and Michael Connelly. When I re-read them, the stories were just as good the second time around. So why don’t I like them better?
BOOK REVIEW: Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday — September 2018
“It’s hard to believe that this is a first novel, the writing is so assured, fluid, and well-paced.”