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 [...]
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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 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 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 13, 2010
Review – In the President’s Secret Service
I picked up this book because my mother-in-law brought it to town with her during this last trip. And since I can’t resist the pull of a normally hush hush topic, I had to read it. In the President’s Secret Service had such potential. SUCH potential. In reality, the book was put together so poorly [...]
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 [...]
May 3, 2010
Review – Committed
I have a girl crush on Elizabeth Gilbert’s voice. She seems like such an interesting lady and her warm writing style envelops me like a warm throw blanket and a cup of hot tea. I jumped on the Liz love bandwagon after reading her smash hit Eat, Pray, Love and enjoyed every minute of her [...]
April 3, 2010
Review – Bright Lights, Big Ass
Jen Lancaster is a hoot. There is really no other way to describe her. Her first memoir, Bitter is the New Black, focuses on her six figure dot com lifestyle and subsequent bout with unemployment. Bright Lights, Big Ass details her real life in Chicago that is nowhere near as glamorous as all the cool [...]
