Super good reads: 5 stars!
25. Lily White, by Susan Isaacs
28. The General’s Labyrinth, by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
31. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
32. Laughing Boy, by Oliver la Farge
35. Back When We Were Grownups, by Anne Tyler
36. Too Late the Phalarope, by Alan Paton
44. Pudd’nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain
46. Killing Floor, by Lee Child
Loved these books, too: 4 stars
27. Woman in the Window, by A.J. Finn
30. Memories of the Ford Administration, by John Updike
33. How to Make an American Quilt, by Whitney Otto
40. When We Were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro
45. Breath, Eyes, Memories, by Edwidge Danticat
47. The Third Man / Fallen Idol, by Graham Greene
Thoughts about some of the books I read Second Quarter 2020
28. The General’s Labyrinth, by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
I give it a reluctant 5 stars. It’s called a novel, but it doesn’t read like one. Not a page turner by any means. It reads like biography, and in this case the biography of the last days in the life of Simón Bolivar, El Liberator. Márquez narrates a story of Bolivar’s 7-month journey down the great river Magdalena from Bogota to