Marie's book garden

The Residue Years , by Mitchell S. Jackson I always enjoy reading stories about my hometown or seeing it on film (e.g., Grimm), so that...

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics , by Daniel James Brown If you'd told ...

A Book of Uncommon Prayer: 100 Celebrations of the Miracle & Muddle of the Ordinary , by Brian Doyle I got the delicious opportunit...

Pope Francis: Untying the Knots , by Paul Vallely As I wrote recently on my main blog, I recently heard journalist Paul Vallely at the Se...

The Circle , by Dave Eggers An excellent choice for a book group discussion, The Circle  is like a 1984 , updated to the Internet age. Yo...

Rose Under Fire , by Elizabeth Wein By the author of my #1 favorite last year Code Name Verity , Rose Under Fire is another novel set in ...

The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen , by Syrie James Jane Austen imitators abound, especially in recent years, and I am a bit of a snob about ...

Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World , by Alan AtKisson As a sustainability communicator, I'm glad I r...

The Glass Castle , by Jeannette Walls I first read The Glass Castle soon after it was published in 2006, but as I wrote in my review for a...

Half Broke Horses , by Jeannette Walls My book group selected The Glass Castle for March, and since I had read that book many years ago, ...

Evil at Heart , by Chelsea Cain I read these books because they're set in Portland and I got the privilege of hearing Chelsea Cain spe...

Animal Dreams , by Barbara Kingsolver I first read Animal Dreams soon after it was published in the early 1990s, but I reread it in Febru...

Prime Time , by Jane Fonda The ageless Jane Fonda breaks our lives into three acts, and she focuses most of this book on Act III. Weaving ...

Keeping the House , by Ellen Baker Each chapter in Ellen Baker's novel begins with an excerpt from a 1950s homemaking guide...about h...

Here are the best books I read in 2014. Click the title to read my review. They are listed in approximate order of how much I liked them (#1...

The Kizuna Coast , by Sujata Massey Hooray! Rei Shimura is back! I've been reading Sujata Massey 's Rei Shimura detective series...

Golden Boy , by Abigail Tarttelin Trigger warning: rape I loved this book about an intersex English teenager. Max Walker is his fami...

Never Let Me Go , by Kazuo Ishiguro Perhaps I expected too much. I've read Ishiguro before, although it was many years ago. We even sa...

The Hundred-Foot Journey , by Richard C. Morais I found this at the library and thought I'd read it before seeing the movie, as is my ...

The Lost Child of Philomena Lee , by Martin Sixsmith With the success of the movie "Philomena," this book was reissued as Philom...