by Andrea | Sep 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Not Quite Dead Enough – Rex Stout, 1944 I adore detective Nero Wolfe and his faithful assistant Archie Goodwin, and have read so many of these in the past year, including three this month. The plotting is very good and the characters are...
by Andrea | Aug 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Here’s why I track my reading from the 14th to the 13th of each month, rather than by month: when my last baby was born (two years ago now), I started stacking up the books I read as I read them and taking a quick photo at the end of each month. So I have all these...
by Andrea | Aug 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
by David Mitchell – Random House, 479 pp plus reader’s guide Even halfway through this 479-page novel about Dutch traders in early 19th-century Japan, I was still thinking of giving up on it. The first chapter was a nightmare to read and I had to...
by Andrea | Aug 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide – Charles Foster 2016, Metropolitan Books, 217 pp plus notes Wow. I first heard of this book via Charles Foster’s short segment on This American Life in 2016. The segment was...
