My Recent Reads and Various Wanderings
How can a single object connect people generations apart? Geraldine Brooks tells a detailed story to answer this question in Horse, her popular novel that follows the journey of three paintings of a great racehorse across centuries of history.
The many characters who shepherd these paintings across time and space are connected to Lexington the horse in overlapping ways.… Continue reading
Some books require just enough suspension of disbelief on the part of the reader to provide an enjoyable escape. The Little Italian Hotel is just this type of book. Ginny Splinter, a dazzling talk show host who seems to “have it all,” finds herself blindsided with a divorce requested by her husband, Adrian, just days before their anniversary.… Continue reading
George Saunders, who is already a prolific short story writer and essayist, released this experimental novel in 2017. I would not necessarily have chosen it for myself, but it was the July pick for the Porter Square Books book club and I found the premise to be intriguing.… Continue reading
It has certainly been a minute since my last book review! “Where has Caroline been?”, you might ask. Well, I spent 723 pages in a tiny British village called Casvelyn, Cornwall, where former Scotland Yard detective Thomas Lynley discovers a body at the bottom of a cliff on his coastal walk.… Continue reading
A couple of years ago, I wrote a book review on The Eyre Affair, the first book in Jasper Fforde’s captivating “Thursday Next” series. Thursday, a literary detective in the SO-27 government agency, previously found herself embroiled in a page-turning series of tumultuous events when Acheron Hades—one of the world’s most notorious criminals—kidnapped Jane Eyre from the classic Jane Austen novel.… Continue reading
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