Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Nevermore: Fortunes, Calamity of Souls, Four Winds

 


Nevermore 12-3-24

Reported by Rita

 

The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies

Explores a century of American history through the lives of Chinese Americans, using the lives of four individuals to depict how an immigrant community survives and ultimately becomes American.

 It is beautifully written, but I thought it got too wordy towards the end.    KN     3 stars

 

A Calamity of  Souls by David Baldacci

In a Virginia courtroom in 1968, a reluctant white lawyer and a dedicated black attorney must bridge their differences to fight for a Black man's life against racial prejudice and powerful forces seeking to undo civil rights progress.

While it started slow, it picked up, and I enjoyed the surprise ending.     - NH     4 stars

 


The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

In 1934, during the Great Depression, Elsa Martinelli, battling against nature on the Great Plains, must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west to California in search of a better life for her family.

Beautiful. A real page-turner. I loved it!     - GP      5 stars

 

Other Books Mentioned

Dogs of the Cariboo and Other Stories by Mary Gentry

Horses of War by Duff Hart-Davis

Blind Spots by Marty Makary

Campbell's Rambles by Patty L. Fletcher

The Best American Travel Writing 2015 by Andrew McCarthy

The Killing Snows: The Defining Novel of the Great Irish Famine by Charles Egan

The Lark by Edith Nesbit

Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo

Trippy by Ernesto Londoäno

Han Fei Tzu Basic Writings by Burton Watson

God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man by Cornelia Bailey

The Bible As It Was by James L. Kugel

Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer

The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki

The Cat Who Saved Books by Såosuke Natsukawa

 

New Books

The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon

The Colony Club by Shelley Noble

One Life by Barbara Winton

Book and Dagger by Elyse Graham

National Geographic Bucket List Family Travel by Jessica Gee

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