Category Archives: Literary Fiction

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Posted on February 13, 2015 by bseat

What a stunning surprise to open a recently written book whose style is reminiscent of of a great 19th century novel by Dickens or Wilkie Collins!  With an intricate plot of grave misunderstandings, murder, a missing person, a great love, … Continue reading →

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All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Posted on February 6, 2015 by bseat

In a small town in Germany a young boy and his sister, find a radio. The boy, Werner, is remarkably adept at figuring out how to repair it and soon he and his sister and the other orphans who live with … Continue reading →

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Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian

Posted on December 5, 2014 by bseat

Seventeen year old Emily, was living a fairly normal teen age life  in Vermont before the accident. Her parents led busy lives working full time at the local nuclear power plant and she was going to school. She could have … Continue reading →

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To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris

Posted on November 14, 2014 by bseat

Sometimes a book’s categorization is elusive. Sometimes you just have to enjoy the book without trying to make it fit a mold.  To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is just such a book. It’s a little bit syfi, a … Continue reading →

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Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates

Posted on November 7, 2014 by bseat

Early in the morning, Arlette fearfully wakes up her husband Zeno Mayfield and tells him that their daughter, Cressida, never came home. Her bed was not slept in and Juliet, her older sister, never heard her from her the night … Continue reading →

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You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Posted on October 10, 2014 by bseat

Grace Reinhardt Sachs and her husband Jonathan are living the New York life.  Grace is a well known therapist and author of several books and Jonathan is an oncologist at Sloan Kettering Hospital. Their son, Henry is a fourth grader … Continue reading →

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Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman

Posted on September 26, 2014 by bseat

One of the last things her grandfather did was give Natalie a necklace and ask her to find the owner and return it.  He had acquired the rather remarkable necklace with the peacock design during the war in 1945 and … Continue reading →

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Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch and translated by Sam Garrett

Posted on September 19, 2014 by bseat

Dutch novelist, Herman Koch, who memorably explored the dark recesses of a parent’s love for their child in The Dinner returns with another variation on this theme in Summer House with Swimming Pool. Dr. Marc Schlosser, the protagonist of our … Continue reading →

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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Posted on September 12, 2014 by bseat

A. J. Fikry, owner of Island Books on Alice Island, Massachusetts, has been having “a no good, very bad” couple of years.  First the love of his life, his wife, died in a tragic traffic accident.  Then came the economic … Continue reading →

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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Posted on September 5, 2014 by bseat

Ursula Beresford Todd was born on a snowy February day in 1910, and then she died. On the same snowy day in February, 1910, Ursula was born again, into the same loving family as before.  She does not realize that … Continue reading →

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