Tag Archives: Sharon

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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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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The Bone Tree by Greg Iles

Posted on June 19, 2015 by bseat

In this second installment of a trilogy which began with Natchez Burning, Iles takes us deeper into the morass of racism, hatred, violence and corruption that lies underneath a thin veneer of southern gentility in Mississippi.  Penn Cage, who is now the … Continue reading →

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The Prophet by Michael Koryta

Posted on June 12, 2015 by bseat

Michael Koryta is one of a few writers who shifts from genre to genre even though it is considered career suicide to do so. Koryta however, seems to actually thrive on it!  Known as a crime/suspense novelist, Koryta shifted into … Continue reading →

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Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Posted on June 5, 2015 by bseat

It is 1966 and a woman and her husband attend the opening  at MOMA of a photographic exhibit by Walker Evans. The exhibit is of portraits Evans took of ordinary New Yorkers on the subway using a hidden camera. Among … Continue reading →

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The Black Count: Glory Revolution Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

Posted on May 29, 2015 by bseat

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction and no where is that more thoroughly proven than in this book about the life of General Alex Dumas. Dumas was born in the Caribbean to a mulatto slave woman and a aristocratic Frenchman, … Continue reading →

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