Books Read, March 2024

If you’re looking for something to read — literary fiction, mystery, memoir, spy novel, gardening, road trip books in translation — I have a few to recommend from my March reading. Click through to see, and be sure to check out the bookchat that generally builds in the comments (maybe you’ll leave a comment, even a recommendation of your own). . .

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Reading, November 2023

What is this cat doing, and what does that have to do with my monthly book post? You’ll have to click through to find out (and to find out about a few books I’m recommending).

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October Reading: On Trains, Planes, and Coaches

I read less (and more lightly) in October, thanks to all the travel. A few mysteries, a French novel, and an Italian one (the latter is very good and has been translated into English, recommended).

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Books I Read in July 2023

A musician’s memoir, a mystery in English (set in England); a mystery in Italian (set in Italy); a novel about women’s lives across the classes in India, and two wonderful debut novels set, respectively, in contemporary London and in Paris, France and Nablus Palestine during the first half of the 20th century. I hope you’ll find something to read among these titles, and perhaps add your own suggestions to the ensuing conversation.

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My June Reading, 2023

Some of the books I read in June. Click through to read what I thought about these and about a few additional titles as well. Be sure to check back on the conversation that so often evolves here among readers (and makes my TBR list delightfully and impossibly long!)

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