Book Reviews
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
by Margalit Fox, 2021 The Confidence Men is another fascinating war story, this time about two prisoners of war during
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country
by Sierra Crane Murdoch, 2020 Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country caught my
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
by Caroline Alexander The Endurance was published in 1998 and I read it shortly thereafter, handed to me by a
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt, 2002 I first read Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, which I reviewed here. On the recommendation of a
The Goldfinch: A Novel
by Donna Tartt, 2013 This book has been out for several years but I was late in reading it. The
The Winner! Best Book in the Past 125 Years, and 4 Runners-Up
From the New York Times Readers’ Votes… And the winner is…To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, published in 1960.
Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings
My friend Richard Hoch has this to say about Neptune: “Lovers of WWII nonfiction will want to read Craig L.
Best Books in the Last 125 Years: 25 Finalists
From the New York Times Readers’ Survey This list was published on Sunday, November 28, 2021, in the New York
10 Best Books of 2021
From the Editors of the New York Times Book Review As a subscriber of the New York Times, I took
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Welcome to the Rabid Readers Club!
To say I’ve been an avid (rather, a rabid) reader my whole life dates as far back as I can remember—to my jumping-out-of-my-skin with excitement when the Bookmobile would come into my neighborhood. Pippi Longstocking and her wild adventures on the high seas were a huge fascination for me. Such boldness! Such freedom!
Fast-forward to adulthood: I’ve been listening to audiobooks for more than 30 years. I initially started out listening to books on tape, strapping my clunky Sony® Walkman® contraption to my belt as I took long walks for exercise. Listening to books helped take my mind off the heat and humidity while I was exercising, and also was a great escape after the workday. But when Apple Computer® released their first-generation iPod® in 2001, that was it for me—I was an early and permanent convert to books in downloadable format. Audible.com came into being in 1997 and I became a subscriber shortly after purchasing that first iPod. My account says I now have 382 books archived in my library, but that can’t be right—that number sounds way too low, for about 22 years of subscribing!
Anyway, I love to talk about books and share the best ones I’ve read with other rabid readers. I’ll post my favorites here on a regular basis. Anyone who has a comment or who has a book to recommend is welcome to join the conversation!
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