2024 Christmas Book Review Roundup
If you have a hard-to-buy-for book lover on your Christmas list, here is a vetted list of 34 books I’ve read this year that I can highly recommend! Those of you who follow this blog know that I write periodic book reviews during the year. Where does the time go? I couldn’t possibly write reviews […]
The Other Einstein
by Marie Benedict, 2016 If you enjoyed the book Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, and if that book made you mad about the way women in science were treated in the 1950s and 60s, then take a step back about 50 years and prepare to get even madder. The Other Einstein, released in 2016, […]
My Friends
by Hisham Matar, 2024 My Friends is Hisham Matar’s third novel and was longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. It covers the tumultuous decades just before and after the Arab Spring in Islamic countries and in the surrounding countries where those fleeing persecution took refuge. The main character, a young Libyan student named Khaled, is […]