Written Reviews

Alice Munro: “Lying Under the Apple Tree”

June 14, 2024

Betsy continues her trek through Alice Munro’s work by looking at “Lying Under the Apple Tree,” from The View from Castle Rock.

Goerge Eliot: Silas Marner

June 13, 2024

Carrying on with my year with George Eliot, I read and thoroughly enjoyed Silas Marner.

Camille Bordas: “Chicago on the Seine”

June 10, 2024

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Camille Bordas’s “Chicago on the Seine”

Alice Munro: “Fathers”

June 7, 2024

Betsy continues her trek through Alice Munro’s work by looking at “Fathers,” from The View from Castle Rock.

Ann Patchett: Commonwealth

June 6, 2024

Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth might be my favorite of her books that I’ve read so far.

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