Why, Yes, There Is A Book In My Purse ... Always.
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Recent 5-Star Fiction Reads
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuin Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Native Son by Richard Wright The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark The Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien The Trials of Apollo Series by Rick Riordan Recent 5-Star Nonfiction Reads 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson Are Women Human? by Dorothy L. Sayers Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow by David Stenn Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Gentle and Lowly by Dane C. Ortlund Humble Roots by Hannah Anderson Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church by Diane Langberg The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois What is a Girl Worth? by Rachael Denhollander Working Days by John Steinbeck All-Time Favorite Novels Charlotte's Web by E.B. White Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The Likeness by Tana French For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw Mystic River by Dennis Lehane Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers The Pathfinders series by Lori Benton Philip Marlowe series by Raymond Chandler Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Quiet American by Graham Greene Shane by Jack Schaefer Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis The Virginian by Owen Wister Watership Down by Richard Adams What's Mine's Mine by George MacDonald |
“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.” What Brings Me Back To An Author of Fiction I love sensing the author knew the characters first, before the plot or the storyworld. I love sensing the author knows more about the characters than he's going to tell me in this book. I love deep point of view. I love realistic human dialogue. I love prose with a voice (I can't define "voice," but when I read a good one, I latch on with giddy loyalty). I love characters with individualizing details. I love being trusted to understand the themes with out the author's assistance. And (believe it or not) I love word economy. |
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