This month’s Book Club Read is a memoir by Jennette McCurdy titled “I’m Glad My Mom Died”. I was drawn to it by the title when I was perusing the Goodreads Choice awards for 2022. It won the 2022 award for Best Memoir & Autobiography. This is a genre that I do not often read…
Category: Reading
Reading, in general
Humor, History, and a Heavy Heart
Maus is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman. I picked it up, used, years ago and read it a couple of times. Once to enjoy and a second time to absorb the fictionalized biography of a very dark time in the world seventy years ago. To me it was a reminder of the importance…
Circuit Makati
It’s been years in the making, but our home away from home is finally finished and we are spending our first time back in the Philippines since 2019 getting reacquainted with the area. There is an entirely new mall with several bookstores and lots of new restaurants. We are set to meet up with family…
The Durrells
I recently finished watching The Durrells in Corfu on PBS. It was one of those stories that inspires me to lead a more interesting life (in the 1st quarter of 2021, after living through 2020, that would not be much of a challenge). After being recently widowed, a woman decides to move from England to…
Book Club News – November 2020
Seeing the breath of education and feeling the soul of an institution called a school I have always been partial to international literature because reading it opens my mind and my eyes to things different from what I see in my everyday world. A friend of mine on Facebook recommended this book by an Indonesian…
Book Club News – March 2020
I picked up an interesting read at Macawber’s book store before he closed for business, THE KITCHEN BOY, by Robert Alexander, is spell binding from many directions. While it is fiction, there is a lot of historical fact embedded throughout. It continues my focus on International reading, as it is set in Russia during the…
Book Club News – August 2019
This month Griffonneur Press bookclub is reading more from The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – THE HOUSE OF UNEXPECTED SISTERS, by Alexander McCall Smith. I picked it up from Valley Bookseller in Stillwater on a book run there in June 2018. It’s been in my “To Read” book pile since then, so I’m happy…
Book Club News – July 2019
The official GriffonneurPress book club has been stuck on anime the last few books, but today we’ve moved on. We’re reading THE TENOR WORE TAPSHOES by Mark Schweizer. It’s the third Hayden Konig mystery, punished by St. James Music Press. It was a random pick from Once Upon A Crime bookstore and a bit off…
Take Pride in Everything
June is commonly known as Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans, Queer Pride month around the world. It was chosen based on the timing of the Stonewall Riots, which are thought of as the birth of the gay rights movement in the US and subsequently the world.