Jonathon Evison | FictionThis is just a bit of a reluctant four hearts, but still closer to 4 than 3! Benjamin Benjamin has just trained as a caregiver, and begins working with Trevor, a young man with Muscular Dystrophy. No surprise, their relationship is challenging, but a strong bond does grow. There are two interwoven…
Steven King | FictionJake Epping, a reluctant time traveler, travels to September 9, 1958, multiple times to prevent the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Of course, the butterfly effect causes changes in the present-day world (2011) and the past is “obdurate” and not wanting to change. As a result, Jake must come back home…
Steven King | FictionJake Epping, a reluctant time traveler, travels to September 9, 1958, multiple times to prevent the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Of course, the butterfly effect causes changes in the present-day world (2011) and the past is “obdurate” and not wanting to change. As a result, Jake must come back home…
Ivan Doig | Nonfiction/MemoirDoig is a stunning, beautiful writer! Here’s one example from page 16; you can find such examples on most every page. “School struck me as the kind of job where you weren’t allowed to do anything; I had free time in my head by the dayfull, and spent it all in being…
Bill Clinton & James Patterson | FictionAh, I breathe a sigh of relief after the last James Patterson I read (see my review on Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas) This is James Patterson back at his best. Just enough complexity and intrigue; a page turner near the end; relationships that have soul and heart; a vivid…
Erik Larson | NonfictionThunderstruck, the interwoven stories of Guglielmo Marconi, credited with the invention of the wireless, and Hawley Crippen, a physician, perhaps eventual murderer, isn’t Dead Wake or Devil in the White City. I was disappointed that the narrative lacked a strong sense of mystery and urgency. Thunderstruck read more like history than narrative…
Rakesh Satyal | FictionThis is the Deschutes County Library 2018 community read. And so I really WANT to give it four hearts, but it doesn’t quite slide into that category for me. No One Can Pronounce My Name is the story of Indian-Americans living in Cleveland. Some lived in India earlier in their lives; some…
Phil Knight | MemoirShoe Dog is fun! It certainly doesn’t read like an autobiography of a mucky-muck corporate exec, Founder, CEO. And yet, it is! I love the way Knight laughs at himself, shares his faux pas and mistakes, his weirdness, his worries. As a professional coach of entrepreneurs I was intrigued by his lack…
Timothy Snyder | NonfictionThis tiny book is big on making one think. It is only 126 small pages. The author, Timothy Snyder, is a Professor of History at Yale University and has written numerous historical books. On Tyranny is 20 lessons. In each lesson, 1-9 pages long, he writes of a historical event — tyrannical…
Mark Sullivan | Literary Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Biographical and Historical Fiction …. WHATEVER!!!!Pino Lella, at seventeen years old, led Italian Jews across the snow-capped Alps to safety in Switzerland., wearing hiking boots and skis. And then he became a spy for the Allies in the resistance. This is his story – 23 months of his…