I have only heard great things about The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows and have been wanting to read it for some time. In all honesty, I must admit that it didn’t grab me right away. It took me more than three weeks to get past [...]
Yesterday I reviewed the book The Secret Keeper by Paul Harris, a new book that takes place during the Sierra Leone civil war as a journalist investigates the murder of his past girlfriend. In my review, I said the book had “a great storyline, believable characters, and set against a volatile background of war, greed, [...]
The Secret Keeper by Paul Harris is a different type of reading for me than what I am normally used to. While it takes place in Africa (and I’m all over books sets in Africa), it’s more of a mystery thriller, a genre that I usually avoid. I’m not really sure why, I don’t think [...]
The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories by Catherine Brady is a collection of eleven short stories set mainly in the San Francisco area and are an intimate portrayal of the characters relationships with each other and how those relationships are tested when faced with dilemma’s, change, discontent, responsibility, despair, self-doubt, and faith.
From the book [...]
I find it interesting that I should read Capote in Kansas by Kim Powers after reading The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff as both are fictionalized accounts of well known people. It brings up the whole what is real and what is fiction thing all over again.
Capote in Kansas is about two friends, both [...]
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