Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Some people need killing: a memoir of murder in my country, by Patricia Evangelista

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  Reporter and filmmaker Patricia Evangelista provides an upfront view of the war on drugs brought by former Filipino President Rodrigo Du...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Horse, by Geraldine Brooks

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  I really enjoyed this book by Geraldine Brooks. She uses a style that was successful in People of the Book, writing from several viewpoint...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Rotten evidence: reading and writing in an Egyptian prison, by Ahmed Naji

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  In this engrossing memoir, Egyptian journalist Ahmed Naji shares his nearly year-long experience in prison after his conviction for viol...
Friday, September 8, 2023

Spies of no country, by Matti Friedman

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  This was a fascinating history about four spies working in Arab countries as Israel was being formed as a nation. The spies were very youn...

The way through the woods, by Colin Dexter

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  Colin Dexter's writing just gets better and better with each new book. The plot is complicated and the culprit is difficult to identif...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

The jewel that was ours, by Colin Dexter

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  This is another complex mystery set in Cambridge at the end of the 1980s or early 1990s. Inspector Morse is called in to solve the theft o...

Harlem shuffle, by Colson Whitehead

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  I really enjoyed this crime novel set in 1950s and 1960s Harlem. Ray Carney is a furniture salesman with a side job as a fence for stolen ...
Friday, August 4, 2023

La Duchesse: The life of Marie de Vignerot, by Bronwen McShea

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  While much is known about the French clergyman and statesman Cardinal Richelieu, very little is known about his favored niece, Marie de ...