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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Book Impressions With the likes of the Cleveland Three, and Elizabeth Smart in the news, kidnapped women who eventually are found is a hot topic. Girl Last Seen was more on the cold side. The characters were all one dimensional, particularly the two missing girls. Because of the lack of development I didn’t form a […]
Reviews Done Quick All The Light We Cannot See was one of the most hyped-up books when it was released in 2014 and even won a Pulitzer Prize. Sadly, I didn’t see it. I tried desperately but I just couldn’t get into it. It felt pretentious and had an Oscar (or in this case Pulitzer) […]
8 Reasons not to Adopt Orphan number 8 The author draws you in with shock and awe plot twists such as, the reason why Rachel and her brother were put in an orphanage. However, once the shock has disappeared there is little left to keep one reading on. Rachel’s reminiscences grow repetitive and long-winded. and […]
The Short of It Cleopatra’s Daughter had been nesting on my bookshelf for several years. Honestly, I could have waited a bit longer. It read like a young adult novel but instead was misleadingly marketed towards adults. I didn’t think the characters, particularly Selene were well-developed or even grew as individuals. When I find it […]