First Sentence A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which, to look ahead. Reasons to Listen to The End of the Affair Colin Firth brings life into his performance and found myself going back on more than one occasion to listening […]
What to Expect A suspenseful mind-bender Pictures of Matt Damon dancing in your head Wickedly good writing Oh No He Didn’t! Quick Thoughts The Talented Mr. Ripley was well written and was very suspenseful. Unfortunately, because I had seen the movie, the shock of some of the plot points were lost for me. Fortunately, […]
Review I first heard of The Good Neighbor at a trip to Costco. I always check their book section and I grabbed ahold of this book as quickly as a child would candy. However, having just gotten into audiobooks I decided to see who narrated it. LeVar Burton. My boyfriend and I looked at each […]
Goodreads Progress First, is it odd that I am comparing an Oprah Book Club Selection to a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick? The reason I thought of Icy Sparks while reading Where the Crawdads Sing is because both Icy and Kya were ostracized as children for being different and therefore kept to themselves. This unfortunately led […]
Review Maisie Dobbs is a cute cozy mystery. However, I found the mystery part got lost in the stream of Maisie’s history. It felt like the author had forgotten what genre she was writing and merely popped back in last minute. On a positive note, I found Maisie and her assistant Billy to be engaging […]
Book Impressions With the likes of the Cleveland Three, and Elizabeth Smart in the news, kidnapped women who eventually are found is a hot topic. Girl Last Seen was more on the cold side. The characters were all one dimensional, particularly the two missing girls. Because of the lack of development I didn’t form a […]
Reviews Done Quick All The Light We Cannot See was one of the most hyped-up books when it was released in 2014 and even won a Pulitzer Prize. Sadly, I didn’t see it. I tried desperately but I just couldn’t get into it. It felt pretentious and had an Oscar (or in this case Pulitzer) […]
8 Reasons not to Adopt Orphan number 8 The author draws you in with shock and awe plot twists such as, the reason why Rachel and her brother were put in an orphanage. However, once the shock has disappeared there is little left to keep one reading on. Rachel’s reminiscences grow repetitive and long-winded. and […]
The Short of It Cleopatra’s Daughter had been nesting on my bookshelf for several years. Honestly, I could have waited a bit longer. It read like a young adult novel but instead was misleadingly marketed towards adults. I didn’t think the characters, particularly Selene were well-developed or even grew as individuals. When I find it […]
When I was eleven, and a new resident of Missouri my family made a weekend trip to Hannibal, the boyhood home of Samuel Clemens AKA Mark Twain. You would think as a reader, I would have loved this, and at first I was excited. However, that excitement ended soon after we arrived. We toured the […]