Category Archives: Fiction

The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami

Posted on October 9, 2015 by bseat

I don’t know about you, but as a reader I often fall into a rut.  I will find a certain author or genre that I like and will read them almost exclusively until I am bored or forced to read … Continue reading →

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The Murderer’s Daughter by Jonathan Kellerman

Posted on October 2, 2015 by bseat

Prolific authors can sometimes be intimidating, especially if they write a series. Although you might want to read their books it is hard not to feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of books you will need to read!  Kellerman is … Continue reading →

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Perfidia by James Ellroy

Posted on September 25, 2015 by bseat

The reading life sometimes raises interesting conundrums. Originally, I believed that once I started a book I should finish it.  Just like the “clean plate” rule my parents instilled in me for eating food, I approached my reading in the … Continue reading →

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The Burnable Book by Bruce Holsinger

Posted on September 18, 2015 by bseat

Agnes, watched from a deep hedge while a nobly born woman was brutally murdered. The man who did it seemed familiar to Agnes but she can’t quite place him. There is no doubt the man was after something because after … Continue reading →

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The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu and Translated by Ken Liu

Posted on September 4, 2015 by bseat

The search for alien life has been going on for more than thirty years, but if you are like me you don’t think about it about it very much, except when you watch the movie Independence Day and see the … Continue reading →

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All The Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer

Posted on August 28, 2015 by bseat

Six years after the dreadful hijacking in Vienna and the resulting loss of life of those on the plane, Henry Pelham is traveling to California to visit, Celia, a former colleague and lover who was working in Vienna with him … Continue reading →

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Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Posted on August 21, 2015 by bseat

“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” And with these two sentences we dive deep into the life of a family, who until this moment do not realize how broken they are. The Lee’s are a Chinese American … Continue reading →

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Some Luck by Jane Smiley

Posted on August 14, 2015 by bseat

Life on a farm in Iowa from 1920 to 1953 wouldn’t seem like a great topic for the first of three novels, but Jane Smiley proves that memorable characters, a deep understanding and appreciation for the rhythms and values of … Continue reading →

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Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon

Posted on August 7, 2015 by bseat

Alex Meier has made a devil’s bargain. In exchange for making the McCarthy Committee’s investigations into his youthful fling with communism before World War II go away, the CIA wants him to return to Berlin and act as their spy. … Continue reading →

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Heresy by S. J. Parris

Posted on July 24, 2015 by bseat

Bruno Giordano, a former priest and now excommunicant, has been running from the Inquisition in Italy because of his proclivity for reading books that are considered heretical, like Erasmus’ Commentaries or Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. Finally, after many narrow escapes … Continue reading →

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