The 6:41 to Paris by Jean-Philippe Blondel My rating: 4 of 5 stars Another delightful […]
Author: jstielstra
Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I currently live an old farmhouse on 7 acres of Kansas prairie well-stocked with birds. Our house is filled with two dogs, six cats, and books without number. And dust bunnies.
Exposed – Jean-Philippe Blondel
Exposed by Jean-Philippe Blondel My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read this in one […]
The Porpoise – Mark Haddon
The Porpoise by Mark Haddon My rating: 4 of 5 stars A retelling of the […]
Code Blue: America’s Medical Industrial Complex
Code Blue: Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex by Mike Magee My rating: 4 of 5 […]
Lost work of art…science… history…
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/04/lost-book-cuban-botany-found-illustrations-women-in-stem/ Anne Wollstonecraft, an American woman living in Cuba in the early 1800s, produced an […]
Hieronymus Bosch: Complete Paintings
Hieronymus Bosch: Complete Works by Stefan Fischer My rating: 3 of 5 stars For serious, […]
Giving up the Ghost – Hilary Mantel
Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir by Hilary Mantel My rating: 5 of 5 stars […]
A day late…
But this is one of my favorite tributes to Quatorze Juillet… yes, the one from […]
A new Bruno: The Body in the Castle Well
The Body in the Castle Well by Martin Walker My rating: 3 of 5 stars […]
Learning Curve…
As a career librarian, I’ve progressed from encyclopedias, card catalogs, hardbound multi-volume indexes and microfilm […]