Reviews by Claire M. (Sarasota, FL)

If you'd like to be able to easily share your reviews with others, please join BookBrowse.
Order Reviews by:
The Lotus Eaters: A Novel
by Tatjana Soli
The Lotus Eaters (1/30/2010)
I’m fairly well informed on Vietnam and our war there and it has been of abiding interest given the loss of friends and relatives who died for it or of it as well as my own activism during the time. I looked forward to reading this novel and I have had the damnedest timemore
An Edible History of Humanity
by Tom Standage
Food through the Ages... (4/3/2009)
Without great thought most of us have perhaps thought that history has influenced food but the opposite is true - food has written history. Who would be thinking farming was an alien activity 10,000 years ago? The mutations of corn, rice, wheat and other grains over themore
To Siberia: A Novel
by Per Petterson
To Siberia (11/9/2008)
Having taught in Siberia for six months I came to know its harsh cold intimately. Petterson's ability to evoke time and place brought me back to the realities of living in a place defined by its starkness and reactions to being occupied. This is wonderful storytelling and Imore
  • Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3

BookBrowse Book Club

  • Book Jacket
    The Cover Girl
    by Amy Rossi
    Find them early enough, and they will always be her girls.

Members Recommend

  • Book Jacket

    The Magician of Tiger Castle
    by Louis Sachar

    The author of Holes returns with a magical adult debut about forbidden love and a kingdom on the brink of collapse.

  • Book Jacket

    Too Old for This
    by Samantha Downing

    A retired killer's secret is at risk when a visitor arrives—her only option? Another murder.

  • Book Jacket

    When the Cranes Fly South
    by Lisa Ridzén

    A powerful debut about an elderly man’s fight for independence, and an emotional tale of love, family, and redemption.

  • Book Jacket

    The Possession of Alba Díaz
    by Isabel Cañas

    When a demon awakens in a Mexican mine, a young woman must seek help from the one man she shouldn’t trust.

  • Book Jacket

    This Here Is Love
    by Princess Joy L. Perry

    Three people—two enslaved, one indentured—struggle to overcome the limits and labels of their painful shared pasts.

Win This Book
Win All the Men I've Loved Again

All the Men I've Loved Again by Christine Pride

Christine Pride's solo debut explores a woman's love triangle in her 20s that unexpectedly resurfaces in her 40s.

Enter

Book
Trivia

  • Book Trivia

    Can you name the title?

    Test your book knowledge with our daily trivia challenge!

Wordplay

Solve this clue:

I N R S

and be entered to win..

Your guide toexceptional          books

BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.