If given the opportunity to travel back in time would you risk changing history and its potential future, or would you let sleeping dogs lie? This is the question Jake Epping is faced with. After finding a portal into the past Jake is transported into September 1958, with a mission– prevent the JFK assassination. Easier […]
The Great Gatsby starts out slow, like the tortoise and the hare slow, but like the tortoise its a winner. Like I said, The Great Gatsby takes a while too easy into until Daisy’s husband Tom is seen having an open affair it was a bit like wallpaper paste. But then Tom slugs his annoying, […]
I felt I Am Half-Sick of Shadows had a little Sunset Boulevard vibe to it, only Flavia is not found in a swimming pool. Phyllis Wyvern, while still pretty and popular on screen has started to age and watches old silent pictures of herself during her “hay day”. Unfortunately, the film reels are how she […]
At the end of The Voice on the Radio Reeve’s lawyer sister Lizzie divulges that Hannah died five years ago. So really, I’d like to know who is receiving these checks. Anyway, why wouldn’t Reeve just tell Janie this and save them all the trouble. I know why, because a) Janie wouldn’t listen and b) […]
The Voice on the Radio could have come off like a rehash of The Face on the Milk Carton, but it didn’t, I was riveted once again. Janie’s story was told in a new refreshing voice as fascinating as it was the first time. Although, I had a hard time getting past what a prick […]
The Springs, are decent people who had the worst luck fall upon them, obviously after hearing their daughter is alive and well welcome her back with open arms. Unfortunately, Janie is unwilling to accept these changes and chooses to live in her seemingly perfect past. Most of the story revolves around Janie’s adjustment, and whenever […]
The Buddha in the Attic was an interesting plot in theory but felt like the story was told in fragments almost as if the narrator forgot what they were going to say and just trailed off. I think the part that bothered me about this novel is that there was no designated main character […]
David Sedaris’ Christmas stories have me torn. My favorite of the six short stories is his retelling of his holiday job as Santa’s Elf. He turns a humiliating job into well, not so humiliating. Sedaris recounts the beauty of people watching. The various Santas and their different approaches with the anticipated children and the parents […]
I’d Know You Anywhere is a chilling tale I could not turn away from. It was disturbing and vulnerable all at once — I didn’t realize that could be possible. The characters are well developed with their personality traits invoking the proper emotion appropriate for the subject matter at hand, bring the novel to life. […]
Like all books or movies that have a tragic ending the story begins with Janie Johnson having a perfect life, loving friends and family, good grades and a crush on the boy next door. All around Janie comes off as the average “girl next door”. But her world comes crashing down when lactose intolerant Janie […]