Book Notes

She looks for relief among some of the old ones – 

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Below are links to some in-depth posts on books, film and television that I’ve written over the years. I’m going to start pulling links together today (4/22/2019) and just take my time with it. Let’s get going.

Oh, and please know: these are randomly pulled – there’s no order here, at all. I’m just making my way through my blog and other sites.

Fiction:

Vespers in Vienna by Bruce Marshal (1)

Vespers in Vienna by Bruce Marshall (2)

The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope

The Hack by Wilfred Sheed – 1

The Hack – 2

The Hack – 3

Walker Percy: A Courageous Life

The Comedians by Graham Greene

The Good Companions by J.B. Priestley

The Professor’s House by Willa Cather

The Blood of the Lamb by Peter de Vries

Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh

A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene

The Pied Piper and The Trustee From the Toolroom by Nevil Shute

The Little Misery by Francois Mauriac

The Sun Cure by Albert Noyes

Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos

On Graham Greene

David Lodge

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy

Black Robe by Brian Moore

Frost in May by Antonia White

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Burglar by David Goodis

Dark Passage by David Goodis

House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea

Gone so Long by Andre Dubus III

Raising the Dad by Tom Matthews

Dorothy B. Hughes:

• Ride the Pink Horse
• The Expendable Man
• In a Lonely Place

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Twenty years of Harry Potter

Harry Potter – written in the midst of the original publication of the series for OSV.

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

The Professor’s House by Willa Cather

Dog of the South by Charles Portis

Gringos by Charles Portis

No Name by Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

Short stories by de Maupassant

Two posts on Bel Ami by de Maupassant:

Bel Ami 1

Bel Ami 2

Washington Square by Henry James

Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene

The Girl on the Via Flamina by Alfred Hayes

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver

Followers by Megan Angelo

Work Shirts for Madmen by George Singleton

The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher Beha

Black Wings Has My Angel by Eliot Chaze

A Rogue’s Life by Wilkie Collins

The Queens Gambit by Walter Tevis

Sachiko by Shusaku Endo

House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The Old Maid by Edith Wharton

The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford

Flesh and Blood by Francois Mauriac (1)  and (2)

What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

A Wreath for the Enemy by Pamela Frankau   and (2)

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

Serenade by James M. Cain

Motley Stones by Adalbert Stifter

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead 

Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen (1) and (2)

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham

The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

Non-Fiction:

Brand Luther by Andrew Pettegree

An Empire Divided by J.P. Daughton

Harriet Martineau on travel

Harriet Martineau in America

Disrupted by Dan Lyons

Niagara by Ginger Strand

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker

The Vapors by David Hill

Splash! 10,000 Years of Swimming  by Howard Means

Dirt by Bill Buford

Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife by Ariel Sabar, part 1

• Part 2

In Context: Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, and Their World by Marc O’Keefe

Philosopher’s Holiday by Irwin Edwin

That Summer in Paris by Morley Callaghan(1) and (2)

Plunder by Cynthia Saltzman

Extra: Notes and Highlights from various books I’ve read on Kindle