Monica West reviews books for InDepthNH.org. Monica is known for her love of history and her lifelong love for reading. She has a bachelor’s degree in History, with a minor in English. “My years of reading for leisure and pleasure have given me the insight to read a book and analyze the author’s baggage, cargo and ability to write the language of his/her mind and utilize the gift of prose to educate and entertain the reader. Go get a book, read it and enjoy the adventure.” Contact Monica at mawest@tds.netFiona Davis Weaves a Fascinating Tale About NYC’s Dakota in ‘The Address’
Who betrays who and who wins in the end kept me reading every page, turning them as fast as I could.
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‘The Glass Universe’ Will Make You Love the Night Sky
The women at Harvard who studied the stars were called ‘computers.’
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Monica Reads: We should all go to lunch with Katharine Graham
This book is fascinating, historical, absorbing, and the most interesting read of this year.
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‘The Unexpected President’ Is Salacious and Intriguing
Some will say the politics of the times was much like today and some will say we learned a lot from that era and we are taking this governmental experiment to new heights.
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‘Camino Island’ Is An Unexpected Delight
You will be delighted with this wonderful read that is not exactly what we expect from John Grisham.
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‘No Ordinary Time’ Is No Ordinary Book
If you like history, if you like reading, if you want to know about the years that Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt lived in the White House, you will love reading this book.
Don’t Be Lonely A Lonely Traveler at Christmas
She and her other sisters and a brother had bought a house in Rhode Island and were looking for another disabled woman to share the home with their sister. The sisters would hire some help for round-the-clock supervision and all the sisters and brother would be involved in her life at a closer range.
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My Public Library Helped Make Me Who I Am Today
Her name was Miss Ryder and she was the librarian at Richards Memorial Library in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, where I grew up. It was the beginning of my literary life and Miss Ryder was as excited about teaching me the library ropes as I was to learn.
Monica Reads: A Novel To Change Your Mind
Good versus evil and hope triumph over fear in this well-written book We Were Strangers Once by Betsy Carter. The story takes us to the United States and Germany during the 1930s and to the beginning of the Second World War.
Make Contact Today With ‘Point of Contact’
Every reader knows Tom Clancy books. This a new book in the Clancy series about Jack Ryan, Jr. It is a good read and you will want more.
‘The Whistler’ Takes Readers On An Exciting Ride
Readers are introduced to some very interesting characters who play the lawyer’s game of hide and seek. Who is the whistleblower?
Must Read, Must Act: ‘The Death and Life of the Great Lakes’
MONICA READS: The author, Dan Egan, has created a living testament to the Great Lakes and how we take care of them and the water-rich resources we have.
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Monica Reads: Get To Know ‘The One Man’
Does one man make a difference in history? Is Nathan Blum the one man to make a difference or is it Alfred Mendl? How do Leo and Greta and Greta’s husband figure in the intrigue.
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Monica Reads: ‘Jason Turns 10’ Is Well Worth The Tears
“Where young boys grow up unseen by the rest of the world, untouched by the good things that go on around them, where mothers disappear and then die, where baby sisters are taken away, and boys are blamed for things they didn’t do.” Jason is crying and cannot be consoled.