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Category Archives: book review
A book about a special garden on Kauai
When our middle boy graduated from high school on 2013, we went to Kauai for two weeks. One day we toured the garden established by the Allertons when they settled in Kauai in the late 1930s to escape repressive laws … Continue reading
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The Charlotte Bronte I did not appreciate
Summer is such a wonderful time for teachers to read books we otherwise don’t have time for during the school year. This is a new biography of Charlotte Bronte which Haverford Township Free Library had on its new book shelves. … Continue reading
Summer reading at last!
Folks sometimes ask during the school year, “What are you reading?” They expect me to reel off a long list of titles with short critical assessments. That is not the answer they get. “Right now, nothing.” This is always true … Continue reading
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How to imagine an affair between Edgar Allen Poe and Francis Osgood?
That is what Lynn Cullen’s book Mrs. Poe creates. It is told from the point of view of Francis Osgood, who was herself a poet. It begins in the winter of 1845 and end in the winter of 1847. I … Continue reading
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Human – Digital Centaurs!
Clive Thompson has a book called Smarter Than You Think which adds to the debate about whether computers are making us stupid. I first encountered this book in a review in the NYT (the place where I learn about new … Continue reading
My Forbidden Face — initial response
I have started to read a memoir written by a teenager who lived through the Taliban occupation of Kabul in 1996. The memoir is called My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman’s Story by Latifa. This … Continue reading
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Great Arab Conquests (again)
I have read a couple more chapters in this book — which is thick with detail. I cannot honestly remember all the names of people and places. But what I take away is that the expansion of Islam was facilitated … Continue reading
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Istanbul as a Setting for Mystery
This mystery by Jenny White is her first novel after a number of non-fiction books on Turkish society and history. She supposedly has a professorship in Anthropology at BU. The book was saturated with intimate details of Turkish dress, customs, … Continue reading
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Italy and China
I devoured the two books, “Women of the Silk” and “The Birth of Venus” in a few days. I can feel the pace of school slow as Christmas break approaches. I have more time to read. Or did I read … Continue reading
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Princeton and Florence: Treasure Hunter Novel
n short succession I read two books focusing on the same fascinating time period — the late fifteenth century Renaissance. The first was a novel by the collaborating authors Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason was a mystery set in contemporary … Continue reading
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