by T Wilson | Jan 8, 2024 | Books by the Beach
Senior Book Break December 12, 2023 Subject: Something that makes us merry or in a happy mood. The Hollywood Jinx by Sariah Wilson Our reader read this because she enjoyed The Chemistry of Love so much. It was decided that the author writes a Harlequin type book with...
by T Wilson | Oct 21, 2023 | Books by the Beach
It is with great sorrow that we say goodbye to Donna Rueff, a longtime friend of the library, a member of the Senior Book Break group, and the author of our very popular Books by the Beach book review blog. We all miss her and her absolute and highly- contagious love...
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...
