As with all my annual reading lists, this one comprises books I read in 2018, regardless of when they were published. In past years I’ve limited my list to 15 books, broken down into the best (10) and honorable mention (5). This year I found it particularly hard to distinguish between those two divisions. I […]
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It’s been a while since I wrote about my love for Big Books (tomes of 500 or more pages). Here are the five most recent ones I’ve read. A Column of Fire by Ken Follett, 928 pages This is the final entry in Ken Follett’s Kingsbridge trilogy. (The first two are Pillars of the Earth,
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Since I’m choosy about what I read and mostly read only books I’m interested in, it’s often difficult to choose the titles that belong on my year-end “best books I read this year” list. And this year the task was particularly difficult. After much adding and subtracting, I’ve finally hit on this list of the
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Every December 31st I sit down with the list of books I read that year and choose the best ones. I usually end up with 10 bests plus 5 honorable mentions. I include this many because I’m fortunate enough to be in the time of life when I can choose to read whatever I want,
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My husband and I are getting ready to leave on a one-month vacation. I’ve already decided what clothes and accessories to pack, but I’m stressing out about what reading to bring along. I’m talking about those big, frothy stories that you can dive into on a long plane trip or while sunning on a ship’s
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The idea of time travel has fascinated artists, scientists, and historians for centuries. Authors have used the possibility of traveling through time to explore some of the big questions of human existence. Here are five examples. Time and Again by Jack Finney When a secret government organization recruits advertising artist Si Morley for its time
Shortly after the deaths of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds on subsequent days, Susan Dominus examined the strained relationship between this mother and daughter in the New York Times: Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, a Mother-Daughter Act for the Ages. Dominus writes: There is something about celebrity mother-daughter acts like the one lived by Ms.
Of the 42 books I read in 2016, these are the top 15 (listed alphabetically by author): Cook, Thomas H. The Chatham School Affair du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca French, Tana. Broken Harbor Haruf, Kent. Our Souls at Night Hawley, Noah. Before the Fall Knowles, John. A Separate Peace Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar Stedman, M.L.
LITERARY HUB’S BEST BOOKS OF 2016 The staff of Literary Hub offer their choices of the year’s best books in a list vastly different from typical best-seller lists. The Top 10 Library Stories of 2016 OK, this isn’t a best books list, but it IS a book-related summary of the year’s events. Great Reads An
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