North Woods -- highly recommend. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes violent, always interesting. The main character is a cabin founded in the early colonial days of new england, then moving chapter by chapter going through what happens at the same site. Very cool idea, executed with amazing writerly skill.
Riveting story. I couldn't put this book down. Kristen Hannah never disappoints with her storytelling. The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature.
Honestly, all her books I've read are so far. One was set in WW2, one during the Vietnam War, and the other during the Dust Bowl. They aren't peaches and roses though, but the stories all grip the emotions.
I just finished Robert Dugoni's latest thriller, A Killing on the Hill. He's such a superb storyteller, regardless of the genre he writes about. This one has a mix of suspense, humor, romance, and interesting characters that really make the story fun to read. I've read most of his books, from spy thrillers to legal and crime thrillers, to stand alone novels, and enjoyed this book as well. This one is a historical legal thriller revolving around a murder in a club only a privileged few could afford during the Great Depression. Profanity Hill was an underworld magnet for vice crimes, and the accused murderer a mobster and club owner claiming self-defense for murdering a former prizefighter. The story's told through the eyes of a small-time beat, a hungry and ambitious young reporter. A tip led him to be the first reporter at the scene of the crime. In a city steeped in Old West debauchery, Shoe's first homicide has everyone talking, and quickly becomes the Trial of the Century in Seattle.
I've read a couple of Dostoevsky's, Peter Attia, and a Carl Sagen this year, I just googled "good books" and bought them. I don't know what I'm searching for but I'll let y'all know when I find it.
I just read The Midwife of Auschwitz by Anna Stuart. I've read a few books on the holocaust, and this one was gripping. It was about all the pregnant women and over 3,000 babies delivered by a midwife in the concentration camps of Auschwitz. It's such a horrific story, but needs to be heard. It's a story of survival of the fittest to put it lightly.
I bought the St Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica set last night. I don’t know why. Was feeling like a bad catholic, I guess.
For something a bit different I highly recommend this book. I really enjoyed it, and the parts narrated by the octopus were fantastic. It's such a great heartwarming story.
I laughed, cried, and was deeply disturbed reading this book, but it's also a story of inspiration and hope, and deeply moving. It's a story of two girls, a slave and slave owner, as they grow up, and their deep desires to escape from their situations. The novel is historical fiction. "A powerful, sweeping novel, inspired by real events, and set in the American Deep South in the nineteenth century, The Invention of Wings evokes a world of shocking contrasts, of beauty and ugliness, of righteous people living daily with cruelty they fail to recognize; and celebrates the power of friendship and sisterhood against all the odds."
Another great thriller from Robert Dugoni. I've read 25 of his books and have loved them all, regardless of genre. He's one of my favorite writers. This is an older book, but it didn't disappoint.
