My Rating 4 out of 5 stars I heard about this book from my sister-in-law who was describing this as being one of the scariest books she’d ever read. She said she read it in like the 6th grade. After some searching (no eBook, no library copy and it is out of print) I was able to find [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Book Review: The Other by Thomas Tryon
Posted in 4 Stars, Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery/Suspense on December 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Book Review: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Posted in 2.5 Stars, Book Reviews, Light Dramatic Fiction on December 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My Review: A regrettable 2.5 out of 5 stars I say regrettable because I had HIGH hopes for this book. This author is one of my favorite novelists of all time. If you’ve never read Middlesex, it was the winner of the Pulitzer prize in 2003 and is my second most favorite book ever. It’s just so [...]
Book Review: I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
Posted in 3 Stars, Book Reviews, Mystery/Suspense on December 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My Rating: 3 out of 5 stars I live outside of Cleveland, Ohio. I few months ago I heard that they were filming the adaptation of this book in my area. Tyler Perry is starring as Alex Cross and you can see some details on the filming here. That peeked my interest so I thought I would read [...]
Book Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Posted in 3 Stars, Book Reviews, Science Fiction on December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Expectations are everything in life, aren’t they? I got about 25 pages into this book annoyed that this author thought we readers were so naive. Then I realized that this is a book written for young adults. I was expecting ‘grown up creepy’ instead of ‘tween creepy’. Tween creepy – [...]
Book Review: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Posted in 4 Stars, Book Reviews, Historical Fiction on December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My Rating: 4 out of 5 stars This book is about the life of Hadley Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s first wife. If you know anything about Ernest Hemingway, you know that he was a famously troubled and eccentric writer in the 1920s. So it’s obvious that his wife would have a great story to tell. But relationships are always more [...]
Book Review: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Posted in 2.5 Stars, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction on December 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars This novel follows two intertwining stories: all of the construction for the opening of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and a serial killer living in Chicago at the same time. Both aspects of the story are true. I picked this book up because someone told my friend it was their favorite book of all [...]
Book Review: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Posted in 3.5 Stars, Book Reviews, Historical Fiction on December 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars This historical fiction is narrated by Dinah, daughter of Jacob . As in the Jacob, brother of Esau, son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham. She tells of her life as a young girl growing up in Mesopotamia amongst her father’s small tribe of wives and children. The red tent is, literally, the place [...]
