by Donna Rueff | Jan 20, 2020 | Books by the Beach
by Lara Prescott (2019) If you love Doctor Zhivago, you will love this book. Add the story of the Cold War era CIA espionage used to circumvent serious Soviet obstacles to publication of Boris Pasternak’s Nobel prize-winning novel, and you’ll love Prescott’s debut...
by Donna Rueff | Dec 6, 2019 | Books by the Beach
by Hendrik Groen (2017) Trigger warning: if you feel offended by such words as “old,” “geezer,” “coot,” and “codger,” you may be excused from reading this blog and the book under discussion. (Thanks to Rolynn Anderson for the “trigger warning” reminder.) If you decide...
by Donna Rueff | Nov 10, 2019 | Books by the Beach
by Shaun Bythell (2017) Let’s be honest: we bibliophiles can be a bit eccentric. We love to be surrounded by books, often to a point of excess that non-bibliophiles don’t understand. Many of us take a book with us wherever we go in case we have a short wait here and...
by Donna Rueff | Oct 10, 2019 | Books by the Beach
by Carl Sandburg (2013) In my February 2019 blog, I talked a bit about the civil unrest that arose in the U.S. in the years immediately following WWI. That incident in Tulsa, Oklahoma, took place in 1921, but there were dozens of other riots and attacks that occurred...
by Donna Rueff | Sep 10, 2019 | Books by the Beach
by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb (July 2019) I admit I have a deep affection for southern France. Any book about Provence with all its flowers, scenery, food, history and culture along with its temperate climate on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea interests me....
by Donna Rueff | Aug 10, 2019 | Books by the Beach
by Sofia Lundberg English Translation 2019 On her tenth birthday in 1928, Doris Alm’s bibliophile father gave her a red leather address book. “You can collect all your friends in it.” Pappa smiled. “Everyone you meet during your life. In all the exciting places you’ll...
