The Namesake is a full length novel written by Jhumpa Lahiri. Her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 and has been much loved by many. The Namesake is a beautiful book that has sense become a movie. I haven’t seen the movie, but I love the book. This [...]
Archive > July 2010
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
I have yet to read The Time Traveler’s Wife, but I had heard good things about it and when I saw Her Fearful Symmetry on the library shelves, I picked it up. I’m happy that I did even though it contains a ghost haunting those left behind and an ending that I never would have [...]
Day After Night by Anita Diamant
I loved The Red Tent by Anita Diamant so I was excited to see her new book at the library. It would also fall into the historical fiction category. But it in no way caught my heart the way The Red Tent did. Day After Night focuses on four female refuges after WWII. They all [...]
Just Like Family by Tasha Blaine
I truly feel that so much of how you like a book has to do with the timing of when you read it. I have recently had my first baby and have contemplated childcare choices while looking at my return to full time work. This is a book about nannies and how they work to [...]