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Daniel Da yasiyatere — Locked room-type mystery short stories. Father Brown is a self-effacing character. One of the early (1911) mystery classics.

Jason Coté jasoncoteeditor — In this sad, yet poignant tale, we slowly watch the happiness of this newly married couple slip away. The beginning paragraphs offer up a clue as to the root of their problems—sexual inexperience and lack of communication. But in the pages that follow, we see how the two met, how they gradually reached the point of marriage, and that the seeds of their future discontent sprouted long before that fateful night. I liked the author's style of gradually unfolding the actual events of that night: from the opener, followed by the courtship in its various stages, until finally we see the disaster on Chesil Beach. The author then gifts the reader with the "near misses" of their lives afterwards, and we cannot help but wish that somehow, the two of them would find each other again—improved by age, wisdom, and experience. But alas....there is no happy ending here. "On Chesil Beach" could be a cautionary tale for those who would ignore or choose not to engage in serious communication in the beginning of a relationship. But the time period (pre-sexual revolution) is an indicator of why and how these two failed at this task. Five stars.

Mary Nash _oonyen — A beautiful book that mines the notions of narrative and authority and their intersection.

Tomasz Fedyszyn _ — I expected much more from this book but was instead a tad disappointed. From dust jacket: "Alex Dingwall-Main, a distinguished landscape architect working in Provence, is accustomed to odd garden requests from his demanding clients. But when a rich and eccentric Frenchman asks him to find the oldest olive tree in the world to grace his exquisite courtyard in southern France, the author finds himself on an improbable adventure spanning the Mediterranean coast of Europe. In this quixotic, lyrical, and evocative odyssey, we encounter millennia-old olive groves, unscrupulous dealers, mafioso-like skullduggery in the plant world, secret festivals, divided families, hidden villages, farcical disasters, and miracles in holy places. Alex finally locates a three-thousand-year-old olive tree miraculously shaped like an angel, but he is stymied when the farmer tells him he will not sell him the tree unless he buys the two-thousand-acre farm that surrounds it...not to mention the entire nearby village, for the local people believe a drop of rain that has touched the leaves of the Angel Olive will cure anything, from snakebite to the common cold."

Bambi Boland bambiboland — I read the whole series of James Herriot novels when I was in high school. Wonderful stories.