Book Club

Occasionally you read something that leaves you in a warm state of summer nostalgia and melancholy. As I closed the page on My Antonia, I felt that.

Canterbury Tales is finished! My main takeaway at the end of this book was surprise. Read on to learn why I’ll never look at medieval books the same way

You are confronted by the atrocities of the Russian Communists in the gulags. But most shocking is the expose on the evil that resides in every person.

There’s better than a good whodunnit. Unless it’s a whodunnit with an unexpected plot twist! The Murder of Roger Ackroyd has one of the best.

When I challenged myself to read 20 new-to-me books, I built a list that was mostly fiction. Only two aren’t. This week, I’m reviewing one of these outliers.

There’s nothing like a good whodunnit to while away an idle hour. So I spent an entire day reading one and I can’t say I regret my decision.

Gulliver’s Travels is a classic and well known work. Often called a masterpiece of satire, I had to read it myself and the results were disappointing.

This book brings you to the scary reality that everyone has the ability to act like a prison guard in communist Russia.

One of the benefits of surgery is it gives you plenty of time to read books. So it is that What’s Wrong with the World became by eighth book out of the list.

This was a joy to read. I literally finished it in two nights. Hats off to the Middle English poet who managed to use alliteration so darn much.