Books are life. Everything else is mere details.
Not only does Gilion host the European Reading Challenge and TBR 26 in 26 Challenge on her Rose City Reader blog but also Book Beginnings on Friday. While I’m no stranger to her European Reading Ch…
After after much slogging I finally finished Mischling. Since then have turned by attention back to The Haves and Have-Yachts and Once Upon a Time in Russia and also started reading Mary Modern. H…
In an earlier post I mentioned how thankful I am to my local librarians for their excellent book recommendations. In the almost 10 years I’ve lived in this rural location I’ve yet to re…
After finishing The Scheme, Palace of the Drowned, Back to Moscow and The Book of Lost Names I’ve since moved on to The Haves and Have-Yachts, Mischling and Once Upon a Time in Russia. Howeve…
Two years ago when Cathy of 746 Books announced she’d no longer be hosting the annual 20 Books of Summer reading challenge I figured that was the end of it. Once again thanks to Annabel of AnnaBook…
The librarians at my small town public library have recommended a number of fine books over the years. Had it not been for them I might never had discovered Robert Karjel’s 2015 thriller The Swede,…
10 years ago almost to this day I borrowed a library copy of Guillermo Erades’s 2016 novel Back to Moscow only to later return it to the library a few weeks later ignored and unread. For year…
Once again I’ll be participating in the Big Book Summer Challenge. This marks the fourth time I’ve taken part in this reading challenge and it’s been a lot of fun. Co-hosted by Su…
I’ve been trying to diversify my consumption of historical fiction by reading novels set during a variety of historical periods. However, sometimes even I fall for one of those novels set dur…
Over the years I’ve read a number of historical novels set in what’s now the Czech Republic. As far as settings go there’s been some variety. As for the somewhat distant past it&#…
Yes, I’m still working my way through Sheldon Whitehouse’s The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court as well as Christine Mangan’s Palace of the Drowne…