Carol Banach: 2017

Reading updates

Carol's bookshelf: read

by Anthony Doerr

I recommend this novel if you enjoy a magnificently written story and promise to not skim through it. One of the few books in which I purposely slowed down to better enjoy and appreciate the author's beautiful writing. I did put it down ...

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

by Edith Hahn Beer

Never thought I'd like, or even bother reading another Holocaust book; however this nonfiction book was well worth my time. This story is told by a Jewish woman survivor who took numerous chances to hide her identity in order to survive....

Brewster

by Mark Slouka

After hearing an interview with the author on NPR, I pushed this one in front of several "to-reads" on my list. I was intrigued with the story mainly because it is not "chick-lit". A male author; narrated by a 16-17 year old teenage boy ...

The Kashmir Shawl

by Rosie Thomas

Room

by Emma Donoghue

very good read. Enjoyed it the second time around. Subject matter difficult but not unrealistic.

tagged: favorites and re-read

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Thursday, May 18, 2017

Lab Girl

Sunday, April 2, 2017

H IS FOR HAWK