Monthly archive for January2018

MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON by Elizabeth Strout “There was time, and it was many years ago,” Lucy Barton tells us at the beginning of this slender book, “when I had to stay in a hospital for almost nine weeks.” Her room, in New York…

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I’ve taken to posting reviews on Goodreads, initially as a way of simply keeping a record of what I’ve read. Soon, though, I was writing more about the books: main characters, plot synopses, observations about the writing style, my own reactions. They were turning into…

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