by Donna Rueff | Jul 2, 2021 | Books by the Beach
THE PARIS HOURS by Alex George (2020) July 2021 Paris in 1927 was perhaps the most exciting and vibrant city in the world. It was a magnet for talented artists, musicians, writers, and various other creative souls. Hemingway had just married his second wife and...
by Donna Rueff | Jun 2, 2021 | Books by the Beach
THE WOMEN WHO WROTE THE WAR by Nancy Sorel (1999) AND YOU DON’T BELONG HERE by Elizabeth Becker (2021) June 2021 I dedicate this month’s blog to the memory of murdered Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi and to the courage of jailed Belarussian dissident...
by Donna Rueff | May 3, 2021 | Books by the Beach
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (2020) May 2021 Nora Seed’s life was on a downhill trajectory. She was being professionally treated for “situational depression,” but it wasn’t really helping. She lost her job and her only paying piano student, so had no income. ...
by Donna Rueff | Apr 3, 2021 | Books by the Beach
LITTLE BOY by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2019) April 2021 Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti, perhaps the best-known American bookstore owner/publisher of the second half of the 20th Century, died on February 22, 2021 at the age of 101. He was also a poet, novelist, artist,...
by Donna Rueff | Feb 28, 2021 | Books by the Beach
THE GIVER OF STARS by Jojo Moyes (2019) and THE BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK by Kim Richardson (2019) March 2021 How exciting that we have TWO BOOKS to read about this month! By some gift from the Universe, both books about the same obscure subject were published...
