Let me jump right in here. Summer is rushing past, but it’s August…time of getaways, time of the solar eclipse. We all want to hide out once in a while, and August is the time to do it. Here are some books for the journey. Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: […]
Alan Cumming, Ambition, and Survival, Ann Cleeves, book reviews, Don't You Cry, Harlan Coben, Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Jessica Knoll, Lie In Plain Sight, Maggie Barieri, Mary Kubica, memoir, Missing Presumed, mostly mysteries, Not My Father's Son: A Memoir, Peter Robinson, Peter Stark, summer reads, Susie Steiner, The Luckiest Girl Alive, The Moth Catcher, thrillerThe curtain has fallen on another year of great books, and it’s time to take stock of what has passed. Nearly six months ago I did a little mid-year check in, and I realize that most of the great books I read last year were during that first six months. For personal reasons, I sought escape […]
Ann Cleeves, Barbara Havers, Cormoran Strike, crime fiction, Elizabeth George, female sleuths, Louise Penny, mysteries, mystery series, Peter Robinson, Robert Galbraith, Thomas Lynley, William Kent Krueger