I love to read!  Ever since I was a little girl, I have enjoyed getting lost in the pages of a good book.  And I love to talk about books almost as much as I love to read them!  Here on this page you’ll find links to my “reviews” of some of my favorite books.  Enjoy, and feel free to give me a shout if you’ve read any of these and want to chat, or if you have a recommendation to share with me!

CLASSICS
I, Claudius, by Robert Graves
The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

LITERARY FICTION
Arcadia, by Lauren Groff
A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True, by Brigid Pasulka
Baker Towers, by Jennifer Haigh
Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer
News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories, by Jennifer Haigh
Shine Shine Shine, by Lydia Netzer
Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovksy
The Dean’s December, by Saul Bellow
The Oracle of Stamboul, by Michael David Lukas
The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey
The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise, by Julia Stuart
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce
Time and Again, by Jack Finney
We, the Drowned, by Carston Jensen

GENRE FICTION
Elizabeth I, by Margaret George (historical fiction)
The House at Tyneford, by Natasha Solomons (historical fiction)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, by Cathyrenne Valente (young adult)
The Spellman Files, by Lisa Lutz (mystery/detective fiction)

NON-FICTION
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie
Paris to the Past, by Ina Caro
Eighty Days, by Matthew Goodman
Quiet, by Susan Cain
The Sweet Life in Paris, by David Lebovitz

PEANUT’S PICKS
A Book of Sleep, by Il Sung Na
Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey
Dear Zoo, by Rod Campbell
Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson
When We Were Very Young, by A.A. Milne

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