Well-written police novel set in northeastern Iowa. Recommended by Bo upon hearing that Jen and Brooke moved to Iowa.
March 24, 2007
Known Dead by Donald Harstad
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March 24, 2007
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
A beautifully spiritual book; set in 1956. A minister in Iowa is
writing a memoir for his late-in-life, young son as he faces death to
record for him what he would have told him if he had lived.
March 24, 2007
The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr
Story of the discovery of a long lost painting by Caravaggio. A page-turner about a true story of scholarship.
March 24, 2007
A Small Island by Andrea Levy
Set in Jamaica, but mainly in London during and after World War II.
Notable for the variety of voices: Jamaican man, very ambitious
Jamaican woman, British woman from the farm who made it to London, her
older husband during the war and returned to a new London.
March 24, 2007
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
Audiobook. Wonderful. Bits of stories that go nowhere. Writer in Brooklyn
recovering from serious health problem discovers a magic notebook in a
disappearing stationery supply store…..
March 24, 2007
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Whimsical look at the return of Odysseus. Terrific.
March 24, 2007
1968 by Mark Kurlansky
It was engrossing to relive the times. Broad take on the upheavals, links political events in Europe, Mexico, U.S. Makes me want to read Cod, the Story of a Fish.