Ruth Hogan’s novel is a cozy, multi-layered love story about a woman who inherits a gorgeous home full of catalogued found objects that she is tasked with returning to their…
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Guncle
June 14, 2022If you’ve never read Patrick Dennis’s Auntie Mame, you might miss out on some aspects of Guncle. So go read that, then listen to the Broadway musical (Angela Lansbury and…
Eight Detectives
May 28, 2022The blurbs on the back are all true: this is one of the most creative detective novels I’ve read lately. There are homages to Christie, Chesterton, Conan Doyle, Marsh, etc.…
The Paris Apartment
May 13, 2022After a semester so busy with literature courses that I had no time to read anything just for fun, I am finally back! For the record, The Paris Apartment is the title…
Enter a Murderer
January 16, 2022The second detective novel by Ngaio Marsh featuring the almost imperturbable Roderick Alleyn does not disappoint. This one develops the friendship between Detective Alleyn and the journalist Nigel Bathgate. I…
A Man Lay Dead
December 29, 2021This is the first Roderick Alleyn mystery novel by Ngaio (“Nigh-O”) Marsh, published in 1934. Marsh is considered one of the great “Queens of Crime” from the Golden Age of…
The Vanishing Half
August 3, 2021This makes an interesting companion piece to the last novel I read, Homegoing, as it, too, is about two sisters who grow up in completely different worlds. Here, we have…
Homegoing
June 20, 2021Phenomenal storytelling–I was mesmerized by the very balanced structure of the text. There’s an elaborate family tree at the front of the book that I kept returning to, as I…
Sleeping on Jupiter
June 2, 2021I liked this book, and I read it rapidly. I did think that Manil Suri’s review in the NYT was unfair. Roy did not leave as many loose ends in…
The Mother-in-Law
May 20, 2021Another neighborhood book club pick that provided a pleasant escape from reality while also reminding me to be grateful for my reality. My mother-in-law is the best, and I’m pretty…