Mostly Fiction Book Reviews
This is a community of book reviewers that has been going since 1998. You can read more about them on their About Page, but really you should just plunge right in to their book reviews. They review both fiction and non-fiction, and they have a great archive of reviews. Plus, they’re pretty [...]
I’ll be honest, the first few stories in this collection didn’t draw me in and I was actually just about to give up on the book, but I found Jeff Greenwald’s Mother, India to be a treat. Not only were the descriptions of travel in India great, but the way he relayed both his experiences [...]
This book started out with a feel almost like Desperate Housewives (which, by the way, is one of my guilty pleasures), but then it evolved into something deeper, or maybe wider, and more complex. This was the story of lives intersecting, the bonds, friendships, love, families, responsibility, and forgiveness which that entails. It was touching, [...]
This week’s additions to the collection seemed to contain a number of novels dealing with love and loss (such as Enger’s Undiscovered Country and Maloy’s Every Last Cuckoo). Among these is Emily Chenoweth’s Hello Goodbye. In it, Helen Hansen, a mother and wife in the prime of her life, is diagnosed with an inoperable brain [...]
Pay it Forward author Catherine Ryan Hyde’s newest novel, Chasing Windmills, is an engaging, though somewhat predictable, love story. The main characters, Sebastian and Maria, are two young people trapped in oppressive and controlling situations. Sebastian is just shy of 18, living as a virtual prisoner under the dominance of his overbearing father. Since [...]
I love blogs (like last week’s featured Book Club Girl), cataloging web sites (like Good Reads), and other social book sites for their ability to let people share their opinions on books from all over the world. This week I’d like to feature a couple of book review apps that are slightly different.
The first is [...]
I was lucky enough to get away for a long weekend in Bar Harbor and Acadia, Maine recently, and while I was there I enjoyed a book fitting of the surroundings: The Story of Mount Desert Island by Samuel Eliot Morison. I have visited Mount Desert a few times and been intrigued by the history [...]
I love fairy tale adaptations, like those of Gregory Maguire, Robin McKinley, and Donna Jo Napoli. East by Judith Pattou was also quite enjoyable. There’s something about putting a new twist on something old, along with thinking outside the box, that appeals to me.
Recently, I caught sight of some early advertising for Turgeon’s Godmother. Something [...]
Lee Child’s new Jack Reacher novel, Gone Tomorrow, is being released tomorrow! This thirteenth in the series is described as a “gritty, gripping masterwork of suspense” (Amazon.com). Early one morning on a nearly empty Manhattan subway car, the former army MP notices a woman passenger he suspects is a suicide bomber. He confronts her, setting [...]
Friday seems to be a good day to introduce a different kind of post. Every Friday from now on I hope to highlight a new book/reading-related resource for your viewing pleasure. It might be a blog, a web site, or even an upcoming TV show. Whatever it is, it’ll be something I like and think [...]
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