Category: Book Review
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Review: Tattered Coat
See my review of a new historical novel, Tattered Coat, by Mike H Mizrahi. A terrific read.
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Riccardino: A novel way to end a series
I have been an avid fan of Andrea Camilleri’s Montalbano series since the first novel was translated into English by Stephen Sartarelli. Montalbano’s impudence in the face of self-serving bureaucrats has always been entertaining. Most plots were intricate and well resolved. The descriptions of Sicilian seafood specialties often sent me to my cookbooks in fruitless […]
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Review: “We Have Been Harmonized.”
We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter My rating: 5 of 5 stars You are on social media and type the words, “I disagree.” They disappear. You retype them, and they again disappear. The state has decided that the phrase no longer exists. You are called in for questioning because […]
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My capsule review of “Yellow Bird”
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch My rating: 5 of 5 stars A well-written account of a Native American woman who becomes fixated on the disappearance of a white oilfield workers whom she has never met. In her quest to solve the mystery, she […]
Lewis, the Scrivener 