Month: April 2025
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Book Review: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
This book was recommended to me several years ago by my grandmother. I remember her speaking about it with enthusiasm, and as far as I can recall, this was one of the last books I remember her talking about. I’ve put it off because I liked having that book recommendation frozen in time, but I…
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Book Review: The Last Pope by Luis Miguel Rocha
Well… I feel a bit strange writing this review now in light of Pope Francis’ passing (although I finished the book earlier this month). While this book is set before his Papacy, it’s strange timing on my part as I’ve had this book on my shelf for a little while now…
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Book Review: The Wedding People by Alison Espach
I didn’t pay too much attention to this book when it was first published. I’m not one who gravitates toward wedding stories and, for whatever reason, I thought this was a murder mystery, and I had already read a book with this presumed premise I envisioned…
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Book Review: The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan
Yet again, I procrastinated reading a book that I’ve been actively wanting to read for several years. In this case, I’m going to use the excuse that I was letting this age like wine on my bookshelf. I enjoyed Mark Sullivan’s Beneath A Scarlet Sky so much that I think I was a little nervous that another…
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Book Review: Saturday by Ian McEwan
Listen. The Child in Time is one of my favorite books. It was so much a favorite that I binge-bought a bunch of Ian McEwan’s books. It was so good that I have been afraid to pick up another for fear no other book would live up to its memory. But I finally did, because I bought…
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Book Review: Etiquette for Lovers and Killers by Anna Fitzgerald Healy
A seaside town in the 1960s is perhaps the perfect place for a murder. For Billie, a murder mystery is an exciting change of pace in her humdrum life. But that change of pace puts her in a precarious predicament…
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Book Review: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
This is a book I’ve been wanting to read for a while now, but I’ve put it off. This, unfortunately, allowed too much time to build my expectations to a point where I left little room for anything but those expectations to be met…