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An extraordinary story

Revisado: 03-14-25

I love everything about this brilliant book. The fact that I am only reading it now, 30 years after it was published, tells me that I have to be more careful and informed about finding the world’s best books. I am intentionally avoiding saying anything about it in detail since I would leave it to the reader to discover.

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Compelling, frightening and true

Revisado: 02-26-25

The story started slowly in an impressionistic way that I initially found hard to follow, but as the story progressed the pace and the style became meaningful and compelling as the reader puts the pieces together. Although I didn’t feel so at first, I came to experience that the writing is brilliant. The lives of the characters became real and I see in them experience of all people in similar settings and situations. I don’t want to give anything away so I’m intentionally not providing details.

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Powerful, complex, deep, brilliant

Revisado: 05-08-24

I’ve been reading all of Louise Penny’s Three Pines books in order, slowing down to savor the last few. I don’t want them to end. Since childhood, I love reading mysteries. It is not the crime that is so interesting but the search, the discovery and integration of facts, the interplay of the characters, and a resolution that brings things together in a coherent way that makes them so fascinating. Penny weaves themes of courage, love, wisdom and worthwhile human values to create powerful multilayered dramas that have applicability to our own lives. When I finish the last one of the series, I’ll probably go back and reread them. They are classics that we can read not just for the outcome, but also for the simple joy of the process of reading.

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Like David Copperfield, but with a life of its own.

Revisado: 04-28-24

Brilliant idea well executed and well read by the narrator. Profoundly enjoyable and thoroughly insightful.

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Life’s longing for itself

Revisado: 12-16-23

The Fraud read by the author, who gives original and authentic voices to each of the characters, is a remarkably compelling, complex and absorbing story set in the time of Dickens. In addition to grappling with truth, justice, history, racism and classism, writing, fiction, family, friendship and love, it explores the meaning of life, I didn’t want it to end.

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Outstanding One of the best

Revisado: 11-01-23

This book shows the continued growth of and mastery of her craft by Louise Penny.

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Outstanding story of the Troubles

Revisado: 06-12-23

Compelling book. I’ve visited and taught Ireland as a professor of law for many years. My wife found the cottage where her grandmother was born, now a ruin, but on land now owned by her cousins, I learned my father was stationed in Derry during WW II. I was raised Protestant, she Catholic. It’s time to put sectarian divisions behind.

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Profound insights perfectly read

Revisado: 03-12-23

This has become my “go to” book. After more than six months of listening to it almost daily, I’ve begun to sit Zen.

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Brilliant story about love and its illusions

Revisado: 11-05-21

Set in the context of a spy story, this is a brilliant novel about the meaning of life shaped by senses of duty, nostalgia x10, loneliness and love and its illusions. I hope I haven’t said too much already.

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Inspiring

Revisado: 10-25-19

A compelling story of a life well lived in the service of intellect, humanism, country and family.

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