Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Author: Stieg Larsson Published: 2008 Genre: Mystery, Thriller Rating: 4 of 5 Much has been written about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, especially now that it is available in paperback and the follow-up book, The Girl Who Played with Fire has been released. I’ll keep my synopsis [...]
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Review – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Posted in Fiction, Mystery, Review, Thriller on August 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Review – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Posted in Fiction, Review, Young Adult on August 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Title: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Author: Sherman Alexie Published: 2007 Genre: Young Adult Rating: 4 of 5 After some prompting from a teacher, Arnold Spirit, Jr. decides to leave his reservation’s high school and enroll in the neighboring community’s all-white high school. All he really wanted was a better education, but [...]
Review – Zorro
Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Review on July 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Title: Zorro (audiobook) Author: Isabel Allende Published: 2005 Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: 4 of 5 Isabel Allende’s Zorro could have been titled The Making of Zorro. Rather than repeating the already-legendary exploits of Zorro, Allende tells the creative and captivating story of how Diego de la Vega became the Zorro we recognize from TV, movies, [...]
Book Club Review – The Book Thief
Posted in Book Club, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Review, Young Adult on July 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Title: The Book Thief Author: Markus Zusak Published: 2005 Genre: Historical Fiction, Young Adult Rating: 5 of 5 (re-read) The Book Thief is, hands down, one of my favorite reads. Ever. I have been a Book Thief evangelist for the past year, trying to tell everyone I know that they must drop everything and go [...]
Review – Drood
Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Review, Thriller on July 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Title: Drood Author: Dan Simmons Published: 2009 Genre: Mystery, Historical Fiction Rating: 2 of 5 I feel I should begin this post with a caveat. Anyone who knows my reading habits well knows that I am a very serious Charles Dickens fan. As far as I’m concerned, he is the standard to which all other [...]
Review – The 13 Clocks
Posted in Fantasy, Fiction, Review, Young Adult on July 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Title: The 13 Clocks Author: James Thurber Published: 1950 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Rating: 3 of 5 The 13 Clocks is a fairy tale-like story about an evil and cold Duke, his captive and beautiful niece-Princess, and the mysterious stranger who seeks to marry her. To free the Princess, the stranger must complete an impossible [...]
Review – The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Posted in Fiction, Mystery, Review on July 5, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Title: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Author: Alexander McCall Smith Published: 1998 Genre: Mystery, Fiction Rating: 3.5 of 5 Using her inheritance, Mma Precious Ramotswe established the only female-owned detective agency in Botswana – the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. Business is initially slow, but soon she has a nice flow of cases to [...]
Review – The Witches
Posted in Fantasy, Fiction, Review, Uncategorized, Young Adult on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Title: The Witches Author: Roald Dahl Published: 1983 Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Rating: 3.5 of 5 The Witches is about a young orphaned boy who learns about witches from his grandmother, a retired witch hunter. His grandmother teaches him how to distinguish witches from other normal women, and soon, the boy finds himself hiding and [...]
Review – The Age of Innocence
Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Monthly Classic, Review on July 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Title: The Age of Innocence Author: Edith Wharton Published: 1920 Genre: Fiction Rating: 4.5 of 5 This Pulitzer Prize winner examines New York’s upper crust society through the life and decisions of Newland Archer. Archer hails from one of New York’s top families and his engagement to sweet May Welland sets him up for a [...]
Book Club Review – The Alchemist
Posted in Book Club, Fable, Fiction, Review on July 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Title: The Alchemist Author: Paulo Coelho Published: 1988 Genre: Fiction, Fable Rating: 2 of 5 Finally, after years of listening jealously to my mother-in-law’s book club experiences, I pulled a group of girlfriends together for our own modest little book club. Our inaugural meeting was in June and the first book for discussion was The [...]
