A Great Book,Wonderful...Full Throttle by Robert Edelstein

Just finishing up,a good one: Wendy and the Lost Boys by Julie Salamon

A Good One...My Three Fathers by Bill Patten

Just About to Start...Summer of the Gypsy Moths by Sara Pennypacker

Just finishing up...Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Good,but only uses libs as examples of introverts: Quiet by Susan Cail

On the AMP bookshelf...Nobilitas by Alexander Jacob

What's the Difference between the Aristocratic and the merely Expensive?

It's nice to see The American Monarchy Party is not aloan...

What's the Difference between the Aristocratic and the merely Expensive?

Just Started,looks good The Woman who heard Color by Kelly Jones

PW Reviews 2011 August #2

At the start of this intense and richly detailed novel from Jones (Lost Madonna), Lauren O'Farrell, an art detective, interviews 82-year-old Isabella Fletcher about a missing Wassily Kandinsky painting, a masterpiece last seen before WWII. Lauren's queries open a Pandora's box of agonizing dilemmas. Did Isabella's mother, Hanna, whose synesthesia allowed her to "hear" colors, but dead now 60 years, collaborate with the Nazis in looting Jewish-owned art, or was she a hero, saving "degenerate" paintings from the bonfires? Through Hanna's firm and authoritative voice, we learn of her trajectory from a naïve Bavarian farm girl to an art critic prized by the Nazis, beginning with her impulsive trip to Munich in 1900 and her employment and eventual marriage to Moses Fleischmann, an important art dealer. Hanna eventually catches the attention of Hitler himself. While at times totally implausible (would Hitler have a private lunch with the widow of a prominent Jew?), this story puts a wonderfully imaginative spin on art and history. (Oct.)

Another View of the School Wall