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 [...]
Posts 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 25, 2010
Character Identification
How do you handle books where you don’t identify with the characters at all? I’ve been stuck in two books the last two weeks, both of which I enjoyed but neither of which I devoured because I could not relate to the plight or the conflict or any of the drama. With Loving Frank, I [...]
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 10, 2010
The Last Bridge Winner!
Thanks to my trusty spreadsheet to count all the comments and tweets and random.org, we have a winner for Teri Coyne’s The Last Bridge! Congrats to Courtney S! I will be emailing you shortly.
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 [...]
May 20, 2010
In My Mailbox #1
It’s a big week here in the stack of spines house. Because I’m a library and library sale junkie, I’ve never done an In My Mailbox post before. So, this is exciting! Most of the action my mailbox gets is in the form of junk mail. _____ I haven’t won a book on GoodReads in [...]
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 [...]
