Tag Archives: Lauren

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Posted on March 6, 2015 by bseat

“Disturbingly fabulous” is what one reader said about this book and I have to agree.  There is the lyrical prose that Flanagan uses while describing the horrors of how the Japanese used POWs to build the Thai-Burma railway, the deep … Continue reading →

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The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Posted on February 27, 2015 by bseat

Rachel is living a lie. Every day she leaves her friend’s home where she has been staying “until she can get back on her feet,”and takes the train into London.  Ostensibly she is going to work, but she lost her … Continue reading →

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The Martian by Andy Weir

Posted on February 20, 2015 by bseat

This book was recommended to me by my daughter so I should have known it would be good, but I am notoriously leery of books that are recommended to me!  So it was very gratifying to find that the story … Continue reading →

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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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The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

Posted on January 23, 2015 by bseat

Our narrator is a repulsive man. A self obsessed pornagrapher and drug user, he is driving on a lonely stretch of wilderness road with an open bottle of bourbon in his lap. As he reaches for it the bottle it … Continue reading →

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All Soul’s Trilogy by Deborah Harkness

Posted on January 9, 2015 by bseat

Witches, magic, hidden manuscripts, a sexy vampire, time travel- it is all here in this wonderful trilogy by Deborah Harkness. Beginning in A Discovery of Witches we are introduced to Diana Bishop, a descendant of  one of the Salem witches … 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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Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

Posted on November 28, 2014 by bseat

When I was about 6 years old and living in Japan, I went on an outing to the zoo with people from my church. We lived far outside of Tokyo, up in the mountains and there were few foreigners in … Continue reading →

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Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer

Posted on November 21, 2014 by bseat

Based on a recommendation from one of my high school friends, (Thanks, Ladd!) I began reading the first of these books, Annihilation and then got so hooked I had to read all the rest.  There is something a bit sneaky … Continue reading →

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