Molly and Jack Boscelli are ranchers in Northern California’s Humboldt County, a region that includes the stunning ancient redwood trees. Molly makes and sells artisanal cheeses from their goat herds as well as fresh milk. Now, thanks in part to Molly’s mother’s decision 30 years earlier to sell some of their trees to loggers, they…
Category Archives: Literary
Rules of Civility
The 1930′s and ’40′s fascinate me. Between the hard times of the Depression to war to the beginnings of changing roles of society, there are so many interesting circumstances, which make for a lovely literary backdrop. Rules of Civility: A Novel by Amor Towles covers one year — 1938 — in the life of some…
Everything Beautiful Began After
A young girl walks in the woods alone. She knows the basic details of how she came to be, but longs to know more of who her father was before she existed. On the walk back home through the dusk, she’s going to ask her father for the story of how he met her mother….
The Art of Saying Goodbye
Paisley Lamm seems like a perfect suburban wife—pretty, young, mother of 2 girls, flirtatious and fun. She’s an instigator, inviting the neighbourhood women to join her in a hot tub for a party, always stepping in with a suggestion that ends up being life-changing and life-saving at the same time. Her joie de vivre is…
Leaving Van Gogh
Leaving Van Gogh was a fantastic book. Carol Wallace transports the reader to the time of the Impressionists in France and she becomes the character who tells the story, Dr. Gachet, which caused me to become even more engrossed in the story (and so I had to keep reminding myself that this wasn’t history but…
The Map of True Places
Zee Finch grew up with a mentally disturbed mother who poisoned herself, witnessed by her daughter, when Zee was 11. Now, as an adult, Zee has become a well-respected psychotherapist with a thriving practice and a close friendship with her boss. But when one of her patients commits suicide, Zee is slammed back into her…
Russian Winter
I like books that feature characters from a different country or culture or with an interesting profession. I enjoy a story that spans across years, revealing secrets and regrets and reality. I enjoyed Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay for all of those reasons and more. Unfortunately, it’s often hard for me to write a review…
The Long Song
On occasion I read books that I feel wholly unqualified to review – I don’t have an English degree, I’m not a teacher or a librarian, I just love books. The Long Song by Andrea Levy, a 2010 Man Booker Prize finalist now out in paperback, falls into this category. The Long Song opens with…
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