Month in Review: October 2018
I link up to two wonderful book blogs Feed Your Fiction Addiction and The Book Date to share my monthly reading. Books Reviewed Netgalley Ratio [wppb progress=90 option=flat color=#877aa7 text=”71/80″]
Month: October 2018
The Real Lolita
Quick Impressions Had I done to Dolly, perhaps, what Frank Lasalle, a fifty-year-old mechanic, had done to eleven-year-old Sally Horner in 1948? The Real Lolita is eye-opening and a fascinating true crime novel. While the novel does switch between Nabokov writing the book and the horror of Sally Horner “the real Lolita” I felt that […]
Weekly Wrap-Up #117
Weekly Wrap-up is where I share happenings on the blog, books I have read or acquired recently. I link to Caffeinated Book Reviewer and The Book Date Off the Blog I had an uneventful week this week. However, over the weekend I’ve been participating in a review-a-thon and thus far I have written 4 reviews […]
Maisie Dobbs
Review Maisie Dobbs is a cute cozy mystery. However, I found the mystery part got lost in the stream of Maisie’s history. It felt like the author had forgotten what genre she was writing and merely popped back in last minute. On a positive note, I found Maisie and her assistant Billy to be engaging […]
Review-a-thon October 2018
The Write On Review-a-thon is a monthly, low-key event to help you stay on top of your review pile. Join however you’re comfortable (via blog, on the #boutofbooks-ers facebook page, or whatever works for you) and get motivated to keep your reviews up to date! Brought to you by Reading the Paranormal and the #boutofbooks-ers […]
The Last Mrs Parrish
Review The Last Mrs Parrish started out strong. It dropped breadcrumbs I eagerly picked up in my quest to learn what Amber’s motive was. Sadly, that trail quickly dried up and I began sighing like Bella Swan in Twilight. The novel became like any other domestic thriller. However, despite the fact that the plot had […]
The Trespasser by Tana French
Reasons to Trespass on The Trespasser Not since Cassie Maddox in The Likeness have we had a female detective in the Dublin Murder Squad series and Tana French delivers with Antoinette Conway. She is smart, snappy, and doesn’t take anyone’s crap. She was just what I had been hoping for. Never fear, we still have Stephen […]
Weekly Wrap-Up #116
Weekly Wrap-up is where I share happenings on the blog, books I have read or acquired recently. I link to Caffeinated Book Reviewer and The Book Date. Off The Blog I participated in Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon yesterday. I didn’t get as much reading done as I would have liked but I was able […]
Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon October 2018
Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon is upon us and I am ready to get started. Reading List: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear White Fang by Jack London The Coming Storm by Michael Lewis The Return of the […]
Into The Wild
Reviews Done Quick I picked up Into The Wild while at my family’s cabin in Northern Wisconsin. From a landscape perspective it seemed like a perfect match. All I can say is thank goodness it is short. As usual, Jon Krakauer’s writing was spot on, it was his subject matter that was the problem, Christopher […]