Sweet and wistful. Slow (appropriate for a tortoise) paced story. A Giant Tortoise is removed from her birthplace and eventually ends up on the grounds of a large private estate in California. There she lives a long long life as a captive solita...

Published in 1959, My Side of the Mountain is about Sam Gribley, one of 9 kids plus two parents, living in a crowded New York City apartment. Sam is unhappy so he runs away with $40, a pen knife, a ball of cord, and an ax, and some flint and stee...

I enjoyed Cold Mountain. I can see where some readers may consider it slow moving. It is a slow moving book. But that pace makes perfect sense in the context of the story. A Confederate soldier, wounded in action, deserts and begins the long l...

Historical fiction inspired by Sarah Grimke, a true person who lived in Charleston in the early nineteenth century, born into an influential and wealthy family. In this well written and hard to put down novel, readers are introduced to Sarah at th...

For the most part this is a fun, fast, easy to read story about a young woman named Mara, who is searching for her path, and she isn't having much luck. She lands a gopher job on a home maker-over/ ghost hunting reality TV show. The haunts are p...

Well. This is a Ray Bradbury book unlike any other that I have read. Another reviewer used the term 'fever dream' and i think that is as good a description as any. Set in Hollywood, 1954, a young screenwriter and his model crafting best friend ...

Very powerful and moving historical fiction novel based on true stories of enslaved people. This book is not pleasant to read. It is violent. It describes some of the most terrible things humans can do to other humans. The stories are presen...

Discovering The Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle was one of my typical accidental discoveries. Someone in a FB group mentioned reading a book from their birth year which pinged my memory, and I thought of yeah, I need one of those too. I di...

Record of a Spaceborn Few is book 3 in the Wayfarer Series, in which I read out of order with books 3 and 4. Whoops. (It was not a problem). This book focused on humans beings, who long ago left a dying Earth aboard a fleet of space vessel, Exod...

I was this week years old when I learned that George Eliot is the pseudonym the author, Mary Ann Evans, adopted because of the prejudice against women authors at the time. (Mid 1800's) Silas Marner is set in early nineteenth century England, dur...