Tag Archives: reinvention
Let it Be by Chad Gayle
This is the third post in the three-part series dedicated to self-published and new authors. Today, I’m reviewing Chad Gayle’s Let it Be. You can visit Chad at http://chadgayle.com/let-it-be/ Let it Be, Chad Gayle Bracket Books, 135 pages ISBN 9780988661011 During … Continue reading
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer Riverhead Books, 468 pages ISBN 9781594488399 Summer camp gives kids the chance to try out a brand-new identity with new friends in a new place, if only for a week or two before returning home. For … Continue reading
The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion HarperCollins, 324 pages ISBN 9781443422666 Genetics professor Don Tillman organizes his fridge around a seven-day preplanned supper rotation. He follows a rigid daily schedule, considers a Gore-Tex jacket perfectly acceptable attire for fine dining, and … Continue reading
Daughters-in-Law, Joanna Trollope
Daughters-in-Law, Joanna Trollope Touchstone, 336 pages ISBN 9781451618389 Anthony and Rachel Brinkley have an enviable life. Anthony still lives in the Suffolk farmhouse where he grew up, and turned his boyhood passion for sketching wildlife into a career as … Continue reading
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively Grove Press, 208 pages ISBN 0802135331 Slowly, in a London hospital, the renowned historian Claudia Hampton lay dying of cancer. She is in the last stages of the disease; her body has lost the ability to … Continue reading
The Matter with Morris by David Bergen
The Matter with Morris, David Bergen HarperCollins, 254 pages ISBN 9781554687756 Fifty-one year old Morris Schutt has created a beautiful life. His insightful, funny writing has made him one of the most popular columnists at his Winnipeg newspaper. He is … Continue reading
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
The Orchardist, Amanda Coplin HarperCollins, 426 pages ISBN 9780062188502 William Talmadge is a man of the land. In 1857, when he was nine years old, he came to this patch of earth in Washington State along with his mother and … Continue reading
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
Where’d you Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple Little, Brown and Company, 326 pages ISBN 9780316204279 When Bernadette Fox graduated from architecture school, she established herself quite firmly as a genius of found materials. An abandoned bifocals factory, under Bernadette’s vision, became … Continue reading
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce Bond Street Books, 320 pages ISBN 9780385677691 Ever since Harold Fry retired, one day seems to blend into the next. He wakes up in his southern English village, showers, shaves, gets dressed, … Continue reading
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