

One Stop West of Hinsdale by Valerie Kuhn Reid
My blurb for Valerie Kuhn Reid's masterful memoir: "One Stop West of Hindale is a book of longing. Shifting with eerie ease between...

lisa Stathoplos
Aug 5, 20251 min read


This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
I could live in so many of his extraordinary sentences. The Irish can write, man.

lisa Stathoplos
Apr 28, 20251 min read


One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (The Master)
One of few I have read multiple times.......

lisa Stathoplos
Mar 17, 20241 min read


The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Yet another wondrous surprise! Is it his style — unconventional? The story? Bewitching. The characters? They live in my dreams. It is all...

lisa Stathoplos
Mar 17, 20241 min read


North Woods by Daniel Mason
Finalist (deservedly!) for the Pulitzer Prize, how to describe this utterly unusual, engrossing and exquisite read? I will fail...

lisa Stathoplos
Mar 17, 20241 min read


If you have not heard of Virginia Hall.......
.....you must read this riveting story about the likely least known spy who helped to alter the fate of the Resistance in France in World...

lisa Stathoplos
Feb 27, 20241 min read


Isabel Allende, a longtime favorite!
Allende demonstrates once more why she is such a beloved and internationally acclaimed author in this heartrending yet uplifting novel of...

lisa Stathoplos
Feb 27, 20241 min read


Gretchen Legler!
A deeply moving memoir/autobiography of an exceptional woman's quest to find herself and her life. I want to be a spider in Gretchen...

lisa Stathoplos
Feb 27, 20241 min read


Abraham Verghese at his finest.
Breathtaking. Seven hundred and fifteen gorgeous pages that will sweep you away to another continent, another time, another world, and...

lisa Stathoplos
Feb 27, 20241 min read


Extraordinary book
"It won't be over until we talk." (Colum McCann, Apeirogon) It might be a good time for everyone able, to read this fictionalized but...

lisa Stathoplos
Feb 27, 20241 min read



