I have read every book by Daniel Silver in the series about the Israeli spy Gabriel Allen. As usual lots of twists in the book.

Is history repeating itself? In 1926, five women disappeared and now during a movie shoot the disappearances are happening again. I enjoyed this book

Renoir painted three Jewish sisters as children.  Learn their fates in this book.  I found it interesting.

This was an excellent mystery and one with an unusual wetting; a moor in England. Combine that with a hound that glows in the dark and you’ve got yourself an interesting start. The mystery progresses at a good pace with good characters. If you like traditional mysteries, I highly recommend this one.

This is such a wonderful cozy book that will have you emotional by the end. It’s a short read that flys by with how engaging the characters are.

Could not put this one down. One of the best writers of our generation!!!

A historical fiction novel about Lale Somolov’s experience as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners. It is also a love story under the most horrific conditions.

This is such an amazing book. I did this as an audio book and the reader reads the book beautifully. It is the story of a young girl in high school who is struggling with being the object of male interests, of her own feelings, and of her religious mother’s requirements. It is insightful and moving and there were parts where I did not want to stop. This is a definite must read.

Since I really liked his book The Midnight Library, I was looking forward to this one. But I was disappointed when I started reading and saw that it was just a compilation of feel-good sayings and stores, many of which are just obvious like Only you can be you and It does not matter what other people think. And while each sentiment by itself could be helpful if they were, say, on a calendar where you got one idea a day and then spent the day thinking about that, here you are bombarded with one after another. It was just not for me.

What a great book! And what really make it interesting is the way it is set up. It starts out as the beginning of an MFA grad student’s dissertation but then evolves into the book itself. And while it starts off as third person narrative, at some point it becomes first person, which just adds a whole new layer to the story. And to say that the story is about a man cheating on his wife and the wife maybe cheating on her husband (you’ll have to read in order to make sense of that) does not begin to do it justice.