Alison Reads

The fourth and last of the “Sisterhood of the traveling pants” series. The girls are now 19, the summer after their freshman year in college. Carmen goes to drama camp, Bridget joins an archaelogical dig in Turkey, Lena takes art classes, and Tibby stays in New York. I didn’t like the constant switches from one […]

Nine-year-old David’s mother has recently died in a fall at work and he has gone to live with his grandmother, seeing his father only on weekends. Thirteen-year-old Primrose lives with, but despises, her flaky fortune-teller mother. They become friends, sneeking out each night for adventures. Over the course of a summer they heal from their […]

A history of Regency England, c.1810-1820. King George III goes mad and his son Prince George takes over as regent. A very good social and political history of ten troubled years. Read by Simon Prebble, who does an excellent job.

Israel Armstrong, an underemployed English librarian, takes a job in rural northern Ireland, only to find that the library has been closed and all its 15000 books have disappeared. Everything goes badly for him as he tries to locate the missing books and come to terms with driving an ancient bookmobile. I’m not sure if […]