Books High and Low

Thursday, April 23, 2026

On all fronts: the education of a journalist, by Clarissa Ward

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I really enjoyed this memoir by journalist Clarissa Ward, currently the chief international correspondent for CNN. She studied comparative l...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

107 days, by Kamala Harris

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This is a thoughtful and intimate look at the short presidential run of Kamala Harris in 2024. The chapters are numbered by how many days ar...
Friday, April 17, 2026

Tabula rasa, by Ruth Downie

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I really enjoyed this sixth book in Ruth Downie's Medicus series about a doctor in the Roman army in the 2nd century. In this book Gaius...

Murder in Mesopotamia, by Agatha Christie

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The narrator of  Murder in Mesopotamia  is Nurse Amy Leatherman who has traveled to Mesopotamia to accompany a patient, planning to travel h...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

Her hidden genius, by Marie Benedict

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This is a very good fictionalized examination of Rosalind Franklin's career as a scientist in 1940s and 1950s England and France. She ca...

Real tigers, by Mick Herron

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This is the third novel in the Slow Horses series by Mick Herron. It continues the story of a bunch of exiled MI5 officers who are assigned ...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Shut up and read: a memoir from Harriett's Bookshop, by Jeannine A. Cook

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This is an interesting and heartfelt memoir by a woman who has founded three bookstores that operate not only as bookstores but also as comm...
Friday, March 27, 2026

The husbands, by Holly Gramazio

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I really loved this fantasy about a woman who gets a new husband every time he goes into the attic. She tries out some of the husbands for a...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

A new lease of death, by Ruth Rendell

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In this second book in Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford mystery series, both Inspector Wexford and his DI Mike Burdon take a back seat i...

Grit: the power of passion and perseverance, by Angela Duckworth

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In this book, University of Pennsylvania psychology professor Angela Duckworth shares her own and others' research about what makes some...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

Being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end, by Atul Gawande

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  This is a very moving book about what people need to think about as they approach end of life. Author Atul Gawande is a surgeon, writer, a...

Semper fidelis, by Ruth Downie

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  In this fifth mystery in the Gaius Petreius Ruso series about a doctor attached to the Roman army in 2nd century Britain, Ruso uncovers co...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

The ABC murders, by Agatha Christie

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I really enjoyed this mystery, Agatha Christie's 11th with Hercule Poirot and the first featuring a serial killer. Poirot's friend C...
Sunday, February 22, 2026

The wedding people, by Alison Espach

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  This is a page-turner of a novel that I just couldn't put down. College professor and recently divorced Phoebe goes to a resort hotel ...

The power of habit: why we do what we do in life and business, by Charles Duhigg

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In an engaging and entertaining collection of stories and research, author Charles Duhigg shares how habits form and how they can be changed...
Saturday, February 7, 2026

Dead lions, by Mick Herron

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  I really enjoyed this second book in the Slow Horses series by author Mick Herron. The story begins when a retired spy notices a former So...
Friday, January 30, 2026

Remarkably bright creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt

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  I really loved this first novel by author Shelby Van Pelt. It's about a woman named Tova Sullivan who has endured significant loss ove...

Mayra, by Nicky Gonzalez

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I did not love this horror novel about a young woman, Ingrid, who goes off to the Everglades for a weekend visit with Mayra, a friend she ha...

Among friends, by Hal Ebbott

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  I did not care for this book at all. Two families have been friends since childhood, but the adults all seem to resent and even dislike ea...

Master slave husband wife, by Ilyon Woo

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  I really enjoyed this true story about a husband and wife, both enslaved, who escape the south by disguising themselves as a master and sl...
Monday, January 19, 2026

By the second spring: seven lives and one year of the war in Ukraine, by Danielle Leavitt

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  This is an amazing work of contemporary history. In it, author Danielle Leavitt profiles seven Ukrainians during the first 18 months of th...
Monday, January 5, 2026

Slow horses, by Mick Herron

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  I've been reading about what a great TV series this is, but since I don't currently subscribe to Apple TV, I decided to read the b...

Caveat emptor, by Ruth Downie

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  I continue to be impressed with the excellent writing in this series.  Caveat emptor  is the 4th in the Medicus series which follows a 2nd...

Murder in the forum, by Rosemary Rowe

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In this 4th volume in the Libertus Roman series, author Rosemary Rowe has presented us with the sudden death of Perennis Felix, a high-ranki...

Death in the clouds, by Agatha Christie

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  This is the 10th Hercule Poirot mystery that I've read and features Poirot solving a crime that took place in an airplane cabin while ...
Friday, December 19, 2025

Dispatches from the couch: a neuroscientist and her therapist conspire to reboot her brain, by Stacey Hettes

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  Dispatches from the couch is about the author’s three-year odyssey in therapy to address her issues resulting from sexual abuse when sh...

We were liars, by E. Lockhart

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  I didn't care much for this book the second time around (I read it before back in 2014). The main character, Cady, is a member of a we...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Murder in the dollhouse: the Jennifer Dulos story, by Rich Cohen

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Murder in the dollhouse is a true crime non-fiction book about the disappearance of a wealthy socialite from Connecticut. Jennifer Dulos gr...
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