When I heard Linda Castillo had another Kate Burkholder thriller up her sleeve, I knew I had to read it. Pray for Silence, her debut novel, was such a delightful surprise for me. Before that I hadn’t read many thrillers and decided if I ever needed pulled out a book slump that a thriller would [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Fiction’
June 30, 2010
Review – Loving Frank
I underestimated just how tragic Loving Frank is, both the book and the act. In one of the most fascinating and horrifying works of Historical Fiction I’ve come across, Nancy Horan weaves an emotional tale fraught with themes as close as interpersonal relationships and large-scale as the early Twentieth Century Woman Movement. What does it [...]
June 11, 2010
Review – The Heretic’s Daughter
The Heretic’s Daughter takes place during the years preceding and at the beginning of the Salem Witch Trials, but I think it does a disservice to the novel to market it as a Salem Witch Trial story. To say that time period is overdone would be a tad of an understatement, no? So imagine my surprise [...]
June 4, 2010
Review – Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road is a book about depressing people leading depressing lives. Suburban and tragic is about the best way to describe The Wheelers, with a bit of ethereal wit. I wanted to be depressed right along with them, to be totally honest; they made me want to form a melancholy club. Lately I’ve found myself [...]
June 2, 2010
Giveaway – The Last Bridge
I have fantastic news, dear readers! In honor of Teri Coyne’s The Last Bridge that is now available in paperback, she has graciously offered a copy for Stack of Spines to host our first giveaway! I read and reviewed The Last Bridge in 2009 when it was first published, so please be sure that I [...]
May 24, 2010
Review – Nineteen Minutes
I’ve been on a school shooting book kick, which is perhaps sad and somewhat bizarre, reading both fiction and non, (as exhibited here and here) so I of course had to add queen of societal conundrum and commentary Jodi Picoult’s Nineteen Minutes to my ABC Challenge list this year. I’m not sure what I expected – I’d [...]
May 22, 2010
Review – Heart of the Matter
Emily Giffin amazes me. Her #1 criticism must be that four of her five books are themed around adultery in some way or another, and all contain the messy potential breakup of families and friendships. And yet, I am still drawn to her books with their neatly themed covers and carefully thought out characters. Heart [...]
May 17, 2010
Review – The Secret Life of Bees
I think this book has been on my mental to-read list for the longest amount of time – 5 years at least. I am sad I waited so long to get to know the characters that Sue Monk Kidd so eloquently crafts within these pages. The story itself is relatively simple and is the perfect [...]
May 10, 2010
Review – The Handmaid’s Tale
I am not sure what to think of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s almost so scary you don’t want to fully process the gravity of the society that the unnamed women live in. A place where nearly all women are un-named and live in some form of sexual slavery and freedoms were taken away [...]
April 23, 2010
Review – We Need to Talk about Kevin
I had no idea Lionel Shriver was female. The entire time I listened to this book on audio I was picturing a male writer describing visceral and extremely deep and fundamentally female emotions as well as the kinds of things mothers are not “supposed” to say. I was puzzled and amazed that a male writer [...]
