Three Days in June is a short, optimistic affirmation of live, love and family. The novel is quintessential Ann Tyler, with seemingly straight forward characters and situations reflecting the complexities of life.
The novel starts, on a day in June,
It is 2021 and Rachel Murray is an Irish journalist, married, pregnant and living in London, when her 2009 self presents itself in a pub and she decides to tell her story.
In 2009, Rachel was a college student living
“The Great Mistake” is a really interesting piece of historical fiction about the almost forgotten Andrew Haswell Green. The novel begins when Mr. Green, at the age of 83, is gunned down in front of his home on Park Avenue
While it is pretty likely that anyone reading this is already familiar with the Wells process, I am going to start with a short history lesson.
Way back in 1972, the SEC created an Advisory Committee to take an objective
“Playground” is a futuristic story about the wonders of the ocean, the possibilities of artificial intelligence, mankind’s insatiable desire to monetize nature and the barriers of race and poverty in interpersonal relations. And more than all of that, Playground is
I have watched enough medical shows over the years, from the awesome St. Elsewhere to the never-ending Grey’s Anatomy, to have heard umpteen times that the Hippocratic Oath includes the admonition that doctors “do no harm.” While, apparently (according to
“Table for Two” is a wonderful collection of six short stories and one novella. The short stories all take place, at least in part, in New York City and the novella, which is one of the most enjoyable things I
The wren, the wren is a complex novel about family. Nell, age 22, is struggling with her career as a writer and social media influencer. She is pondering the differences between people and the way they think “We don’t see
Let me just start this post by saying this is not the sort of novel I usually read. It is a feel good novel and some might say perhaps a little too tied together. However, there is something special about
This Other Eden is a work of historical fiction based on the story of Malaga Island from the mid-1800s to 1912.
This Other Eden begins when Benjamin Honey, a former slave, shows up on an uninhabited Island with “his wife,