Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars As England’s greatest specialist in criminal detection, Sherlock Holmes is unwavering in his quest to capture the killer responsible for terrifying London’s East End. He hires an “unfortunate” known as Mary Ann Monk, the…
Amy Poehler’s ‘Yes Please’: Audiobook v. Paperback
“It’s called Yes Please because it is the constant struggle and often the right answer. Can we figure out what we want, ask for it, and stop talking? Yes please. Is being vulnerable a power position? Yes please. Am I…
Review: ‘Life After Life’ by Kate Atkinson
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she…
Review: ‘Dark Places’ by Gillian Flynn
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January…
Review: ‘Perfect’ by Rachel Joyce
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was in order to balance clock time with the movement of the earth. Byron Hemming knew this because James Lowe had told him and James…
Historical Fiction Review: ‘The Wild Girl’ by Kate Forsyth
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Once there were six sisters. The pretty one, the musical one, the clever one, the helpful one, the young one…and then there was the wild one. Dortchen Wild has loved Wilhelm Grimm since she…
Review: ‘HHhH’ by Laurent Binet
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Everyone has heard of Reinhard Heydrich, “the Butcher of Prague.” And most have heard stories of his spectacular assassination at the hands of two Czechoslovakian partisans. But who exactly were the forgotten heroes who…
Review: ‘The Penelopiad’ by Margaret Atwood
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars “In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope – wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy – is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the…
Review: ‘Gone Girl’ by Gillian Flynn
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears…
Review: ‘11.22.63’ by Stephen King
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was shot –…
