Can you find your true self in living out your best friend's wishes? The narrator of The Locked Room, the last novel in Paul Auster’s innovative New York Trilogy, attempts to answer that question. A man named Fanshawe has gone missing, leaving his wife, child, and a...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 142: Ghosts (New York Trilogy #2) by Paul Auster
by MHill | May 19, 2024 | 2024 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Paul Auster, Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Wisdom From Kammbia Novella Review
Ghosts is the second novel in Paul Auster's innovative New York Trilogy. As a tribute, I've decided to revisit his most celebrated work and share my impressions after three decades later after since my initial reading. Blue, a private detective, has been commissioned...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 54: Beton Rouge by Simone Buchholz
by MHill | Aug 22, 2020 | 2020 Book Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Beton Rouge by Simone Buchholz is my second read for Women In Translation Month 2020. I read the first Chastity Riley novel translated into English, Blue Night, last year and connected with the protagonist. Chastity Riley is a prosecutor in Hamburg and along with her...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 21: Blue Night by Simone Buchholz
by MHill | Aug 12, 2019 | 2019 Book Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Last year, I began attempting to read fiction beyond America. I believe it's important and necessary to read novels from around the world to widen my view of how stories are told. I read two novels from France...
Book Review 121: The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
by MHill | Nov 24, 2017 | 2017 Book Reviews, Louise Penny Gamache Novels, Marion's Favorite Books
I have become a Louise Penny fan! I wanted to make that statement clear from the opening sentence of this review. The Beautiful Mystery is the third Louise Penny novel I've read in 2017. Starting with The Long Way Home and A Trick of the Light, the Inspector Gamache...
Book Review 106: The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
by MHill | May 7, 2017 | 2017 Book Reviews, Louise Penny Gamache Novels, Marion's Favorite Books
One of the pleasures of doing book reviews is getting to discover a new author and escaping into their fictional world. I have been hearing about mystery novelist Louise Penny on the What I Should Read Next podcast by several readers. Anne Bogel, the host,...