Category: Book Notes
These are notes written for the Aptos Men’s Book Club and others about books I have read.
The Spy and the Traitor
by Ben Macintyre
The book’s great historical and educational value trumps its spy story quality all day long.
A Woman of No Importance
by Sonia Purnell
If you are a World War II buff it’s an important book about a truly remarkable hero of the war.
News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
Captain Kidd is a character who seems made for a movie starring Tom Hanks.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
by John Le Carrè
My bottom line is that Le Carrè appears to be an acquired taste that I have not acquired.
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
by Maggie O’Farrell
Ms. O’Farrell sees herself as a blameless wanderer through a life we all live, full of mistakes and misjudgments, and circumstances we cannot control that endanger us.
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