Mexico’s Rainy Season is Here
Are you suffering through a heat wave? I sympathize; ours came in June and now the beloved rainy season has come to cool things off. Afternoons are still very warm, but mornings and evenings are…
Category: Books I Love
The Couple at the Gordito Stand
Shall we say they’re from Sweden? Denmark? Finland! I’m reading The Witch Hunter by Max Seeck (creeeeepy—police procedural, not horror—at least not the supernatural type), which takes place in Finland, so let’s say Finland. Both…
The Cat versus The King
I recentlay read two books on writing, and they couldn’t be more different: Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody and On Writing by Stephen King. King is a panster; Cat! gives the…
Review of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments Nan A. Talese / Doubleday New York 2019
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood is a continuation of The Handmaid’s Tale. The main voice in this novel, that of Aunt Lydia’s statue, has Atwood’s irony, as well as her great skill as a storyteller….
Novel Review: The Nightengale By Kristin Hannah St. Martin’s Griffin (NY) 2015
This is a historical romance novel about World War II and the Nazi occupation of France. As far as I know, the novel accurately depicts life in occupied France: miserable conditions, food shortages, Nazi soldiers…
Books I Read Recently – Mini-Reviews
Like many of us bookworms, I’ve been reading a lot during this stay-at-home order. Here in Ajijic, my friends and I usually buy used books and pass them around. Once in a while, we’ll get…
Losing Beckie
I’m reading Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, a fabulous memoir by Alexandra Fuller. It takes place in Africa—Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi. Just shy of half-way through the book—spoiler alert—the narrator is supposed to…