Margaret's Book Reviews
A Cleft In The World by Elizabeth Sumner Wafler She Writes Press, 2023 In her previous novel Georgie Girl, Elizabeth Sumner Wafler introduced us to a sensitive girl who grew…
The Years by Annie Ernaux Seven Stories Press, 2017 A memoir is a snapshot of a person’s life. An autobiography is an attempt to relate the trajectory of a whole…
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Russian Messenger, 1878 Does anyone dare to write a review of Tolstoy’s epic Anna Karenina?
The Dictionary Of Lost Words by Pip Williams Affirm Press 2020, and Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, 2021 Who controls what words go into the dictionary?
An Immense World by Ed Yong Random House, 2022 Did you know that a squid feels pain? And that it appears to feel pain in all parts of its body?…
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence St. Martin’s Press, 2022 The treeline is the line between climates temperate enough for woodland,…
By Madeleine Watts, Catapult Books, 2021 Let me read anything by Madeleine Watts. Please. This debut novel reads like a memoir, and perhaps, like many first books, it draws on…
By Suzanne Simard, Alfred A. Knopf, 2021 The title of this book intrigued me. I had read Suzanne Simard’s long article, The Social Life of Forests, in The New York…
By Charlotte McConaghy, Flatiron Books, 2020 It’s not often that I read a book that grabs me by the lapels of my shirt and pulls me in to face an imaginary…
By Susan Juby, Harper Collins, 2011 From the time of the last recession comes this very funny book by an author who usually writes YA (Young Adult) fiction.