Food

Subject: Food Fast and Delicious Mexican Meals by Alice Guadalupe Tapp and California Soul by Keith Corbin Our reader remembers tasting the most glorious fresh corn tamales in San Diego in 1975. He has been hunting for them ever since. His search led him to these two...

August 2024 Odd Couples

Senior Book Break Subject: Odd Couples A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Count Alexander Rostov, born into Russian aristocracy, finds himself in Moscow at the time of the Russian Revolution. Sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the luxury hotel, Metropol, he...

Ancient Egypt

Crocodile on The Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters Our heroine is Emily Peabody in the first of six books. Our reader said she did not get to Egypt till 20 pages before the middle of the book. She found it very wordy, tedious, and skipped around even within a paragraph. ...

April, 2024 — Plants

Subject: Plants Note: GBCL after title means it is available in our library. Skin and Other Stories by Roald Dahl This is a short story, The Sound Machine, about a man named Klausner, who gets to wondering about why humans are not able to hear dog whistles. What if...

March 2024 – Plants

Subject: Plants Note: GBCL after title means it is available in our library. Skin and Other Stories by Roald Dahl This is a short story, The Sound Machine, about a man named Klausner, who gets to wondering about why humans are not able to hear dog whistles. What if...