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Audiobook Review: Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

January 27, 2021 Whitney Review 3 Comments
Audiobook Review: Eligible by  Curtis Sittenfeld

Sadly, at 20% Eligible took a nosedive. It became the most trashy version of The Bachler and strayed so far from Pride and Prejudice that it became unrecognizable. I wanted to follow in Colton’s footsteps and jump over a fence to put as much distance as possible between us. Eligible put way too much focus […]

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Girl Last Seen

October 17, 2018 Whitney Review 1 Comment
Girl Last Seen

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 […]

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Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion

March 29, 2016 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion

I try to find at least one positive thing to say when writing a negative review, but with Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion I am coming up blank.  The characters were all so unlikable and shallow with images of the Kardashians coming to mind.  Due to the lack of caring for anyone in […]

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Review: Snow in Summer

March 29, 2013 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Review: Snow in Summer

Snow in Summer, (which is actually the poor girl’s name) begins with the burial site of her mother and stillborn brother.  Her father is distraught, and any happiness Snow may have had is over with her widowed father going into a five year depression.  Every evening, Daddy goes to his wife’s grave site and one […]

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Review: The White Masai

May 24, 2011 Whitney Review 3 Comments
Review: The White Masai

While on Safari with her then boyfriend, Corinne Hofmann glimpses a  Samburu Warrior, Lketinga and it is love at first sight.  She drops everything in her home of Switzerland and spends the next several months stocking him around Kenya.  Despite a drastic change in living conditions and neither speaking the same language, using broken English […]

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