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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Donna Leon, “Willful Behavior”
I thought I had read my way through Donna Leon’s books but here is one from 2002 that I missed. Willful Behavior involves the murder of an appealing young woman, Claudia Leonardo, one of Paola Brunetti’s students. As always, Commissario … Continue reading
Bo Caldwell, “The City of Tranquil Light”
I would have said that a novel about missionaries in China would not be something I loved. On the face of it, the subject sounds earnest and possibly dull. But then there’s this title, The City of Tranquil Light: so … Continue reading
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Tagged Bo Caldwell, Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Julia Glass, “The Widower’s Tale”
Near the end of The Widower’s Tale, in a segment narrated by the widower of the title, he says, “I have always been an avid and fairly ecumenical reader of fiction: I relish the pretend, the invented, the convincingly contrived.” … Continue reading
Fred Vargas, “Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand” or “Sous les vents de Neptune”
Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand opens on a frosty October day with Parisian police commissaire Jean-Pierre Adamsberg in the basement of his office building, leaning against the inactive boiler. He is not especially perturbed by the cold; it … Continue reading
Katharine Davis, “A Slender Thread”
It’s a pretty good recipe for a novel: take a group of attractive characters, subject them to a new kind of pressure, and see what happens. Joanna Trollope has been writing versions of this book for years, and Julia Glass … Continue reading
Edmund de Waal, “The Hare with Amber Eyes”
I read much less nonfiction than I do fiction. I suppose I am always looking for a story, and nonfiction so rarely provides a narrative thread that I find appealing. But I’ve had Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber … Continue reading
A Cup of Tea with That?
I read a lot of books by English authors; here are some of my favorites. Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, In Tearing Haste Jane Gardam, The Man in the Wooden Hat Stella Gibbons, Nightingale … Continue reading
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Susan Hill, “The Woman in Black”
I am not a great fan of ghost stories. I am perfectly capable of scaring myself into a state without any help from the professionals. But once again, I am putty in the hands of those people at Amazon. I … Continue reading
Craig Johnson, “Another Man’s Moccasins”
Being a methodical kind of girl, I tend to read series mysteries in order, the way their author wrote them. But I got sidetracked somehow with Craig Johnson and leapt to Junkyard Dogs before getting to Another Man’s Moccasins. Of … Continue reading
