The Dinner by Herman Koch takes place over the course of one meal between two brothers and their wives. The novel begins with an aperitif, being an introduction to the couples and casual small talk. When we reach the succulent main course we learn the true reason for the evening out; to talk about their […]
I should probably prefix this review by saying I had brain surgery when I was a teenager due to uncontrolled epilepsy so when going into a book about a teen girl who had epilepsy having the two hemispheres severed because of said condition, I knew I was bound to critique and be realistically critical. And I was. […]
My family has gone away for Christmas every year since I was little, and each year there seems to be one book that is floating around the airport. Last year while waiting for connections everyone was reading Stephen King’s 11/22/63 (including myself) this year, it was Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. Gone Girl seemed to appear […]
All of Lexie’s roommates were creepy, Abby appeared to know more than she lets on almost acting like a know-it-all Donna Reed, keeping everything orderly, watching all her ps and qs. Justin, is a squirrelly little thing, jumping at the slightest noise and willing to please. Raphael, really fades into the background, and sometimes I […]
Before I Go To Sleep is to be likened to the film, Memento, only without Guy Pierce and on crack. Remember, crack is wack. Christine Lucas, gained amnesia after a hit and run accident and can only hold one days memories at a time, when the clock strikes midnight, her brain hits rewind to play […]
I really enjoyed Dark Places, it is one of the few books that shows the heroine in a bad light and at times I was so annoyed by her lack of direction that I wanted to throw the book against that wall. But that doesn’t mean I stopped reading it, quite the contrary, I ate […]
What was I thinking? I read The Silence of the Lambs in a wooded, secluded area. It was like taking a shower after watching Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Creepy. Back in the day before cell phones, my family went on vacation in the same wooded area that I read Silence of the Lambs. My mom read […]
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest is the last novel in the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson. The third installment picks up where The Girl Who Played With Fire left off, our hero Lisbeth Salander hanging on through life and death after being shot in the head. When she is “captured” and taken to […]
I was still on the edge of my seat while reading The Girl Who Played With Fire I did find some of the plot to be rather tangled and the link between Bjurman and the sex trade to be rather poor and took me some time to completely understand it as it wasn’t written in […]
Lisbeth Salander is the Nancy Drew for adults, she’s quick on her feet using her intellect to solve crime and revenge those who have wronged her. She may not be as attractive as Nan is described with her piercings and tattoos but is beautiful in her own way. I see Lisbeth Salander as a hip […]