First Sentence A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which, to look ahead. Reasons to Listen to The End of the Affair Colin Firth brings life into his performance and found myself going back on more than one occasion to listening […]
What to Expect A suspenseful mind-bender Pictures of Matt Damon dancing in your head Wickedly good writing Oh No He Didn’t! Quick Thoughts The Talented Mr. Ripley was well written and was very suspenseful. Unfortunately, because I had seen the movie, the shock of some of the plot points were lost for me. Fortunately, […]
Review Braving the Wilderness takes on the subject of belonging. I typically wouldn’t have picked up a book that to me, falls into the self-help category but I decided to give it a try as I work my way through Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club Selections. I really had to slog my way through the book […]
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 […]