Review I first heard of The Good Neighbor at a trip to Costco. I always check their book section and I grabbed ahold of this book as quickly as a child would candy. However, having just gotten into audiobooks I decided to see who narrated it. LeVar Burton. My boyfriend and I looked at each […]
First Sentence In the tunnel where I was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheatre, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl had been murdered and dismembered. Review Alice Sebold is a powerful writer. Be it fiction or memoir she has […]
Goodreads Progress Have you ever wondered how long it takes to dig a grave? Wonder no longer. It takes an age. However long you think it takes, double that. That opening line had me at hello and grabbed my attention as to learn not only who she was burying but why. I couldn’t help but roll […]
Reasons to Read A Man Called Ove If you love character-driven, heart-warming reads A Man Called Ove is a must Ove is a rarity as he is a loveable curmudgeon and his story is like an onion, with each layer invoking more emotion. Fredrik Backman has a very subtle sense of humor that could bring […]
I’m going to be honest, I hated Guards! Guards! It was disjointed, the characters were undeveloped and this branch of Fantasy is not my jam. If it had not been for my boyfriend, who loves this series, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels would be gone from my shelf like Mary Jo and the car. Yet due […]
Featuring A legal battle Spoiled middle-class family Poor decisions Nature vs Nurture The Characters: Do not read Little Fires Everywhere for the characters. They are all pretty self-absorbed and are only looking out for their best interests. This is definitely true for Elena and Mia, the matriarchs in their respected families. Why is it that so […]
Review I was surprised at myself for picking up The Lying Game as I did not care for In a Dark, Dark Wood, but I thought I would give Ruth Ware a second chance as I had been impressed with her way of creating suspense. I found that to be true in The Lying Game […]
Goodreads Progress First, is it odd that I am comparing an Oprah Book Club Selection to a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick? The reason I thought of Icy Sparks while reading Where the Crawdads Sing is because both Icy and Kya were ostracized as children for being different and therefore kept to themselves. This unfortunately led […]
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 […]
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 […]