Category: Reading Journal

Playground by Richard Powers was my book club’s selection for June. Most people in the group were underwhelmed, but I think that’s because they…

Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia by Elizabeth Catte was my book club’s selection for May. Although the accounts of the…

Highlights: Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a posthumous novel by the great writer that probably shouldn’t have been published by his heirs….

The Vegetarian by Han Kang. I was asked to moderate a discussion of this book in February, so I needed to reread it. It…

Knife: Meditations after an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie was my book club’s selection for November. The memoir is a gripping account of the…

It was a busy month and I got shockingly little reading done, but these are three significant books. North Woods by Daniel Mason was…

I was traveling at the end of August, so didn’t get my reading list posted for the month. Here’s a double entry: The High…