Infinite Books

A blog about my adventures in reading…

Book reviews

  • “The Five-Star Weekend” by Elin Hilderbrand

    Hollis’s life seems ideal: she has a great husband, a heart surgeon,  a beautiful summer house on Nantucket in addition to her Wellesley’s home, and her humble food blog became so popular during the pandemic that now she has many followers who want to “cook with Hollis.”. Sure, not everything is picture-perfect. Her adult daughter

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  • “The Girl by the Bridge” by Arnaldur Indriðason

    A young man walks in the evening searching for poetic inspiration and stops on the bridge over the Pond in Reykjavik. He notices something unusual in the water: a doll, and he retrieves it. Then he sees a dead girl in the pond. Twenty years later, a young woman is found dead, a syringe stuck

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  • “Birnam Wood” by Eleanor Catton

    Did you think that gardening was a peaceful activity? After reading “Birnam Wood,” Eleanor Catton’s latest novel, you will surely change your mind. Birnam Wood is a clandestine gardening collective with a great idea: the group cultivates unused strips of land, abandoned construction sites, and such to grow vegetables. They are young, sharing their idealistic

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