by Donna Rueff | Jan 13, 2023 | Books by the Beach
By Eva Jurczyk (2022) December 2022 “Who doesn’t love a mystery involving rare books and bad librarians?” says Karen Joy Fowler’s blurb for this book’s jacket. While most of us who read this blog are familiar with the lending library, there’s another type of library...
by Donna Rueff | Sep 30, 2022 | Books by the Beach
by Sue Halpern (2018) October 2022 As you stand amid the rubble that was once your perfect life, what you always wanted and worked hard for, you wonder: what just happened here? Do I cry? Scream? Drown my sorrows in wine or Haagen-Dazs, or both? Leave the country?...
by Donna Rueff | Sep 3, 2022 | Books by the Beach
by Larry McMurtry (2008) September 2022 Someone has to say it: Larry McMurtry was an over-achiever! ONE successful career is enough for most people, but not for McMurtry, who died in 2021. He’s most widely known for his popular books and other written materials about...
by Donna Rueff | Aug 1, 2022 | Books by the Beach
The Book Collectors by Delphine Minoui (2017) and Syria’s Secret Library by Mike Thomson (2019) August 2022 One day during a pause in bombing in the Syrian civil war, a young Syrian man on the rebel side took a walk through the devastated town of Daraya, his...
by Donna Rueff | Jul 11, 2022 | Books by the Beach
by Kerri Maher (2022) July 2022 Sylvia Beach, an American, fell madly in love with Paris when vacationing there with her family in her mid-teens. She spent nearly 15 years devising various plans for moving to Paris, finally settling on the idea of opening a French...
