October 10, 2011 – 2:35 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores Chosen by my book club, I admit to being a bit intimidated by the book’s abundant classic prose. I had the good fortune of having the audio and print version at my disposal. Listening was a great way to sort out the characters and establish the plot line. Soon I was reading [...]
Shop Indie Bookstores Put yourself in this woman’s place. Each morning you wake up and find yourself sleeping next to a complete stranger. You are reminded each day by a phone call from a doctor you don’t remember to read your journal, the one and only connection you have with the past. This taut paced [...]
January 18, 2011 – 2:22 pm
Shop Indie Bookstores Set in rural Mississippi,this book begins with the shooting of Larry Ott, a loner suspected of raping and killing a girl when he was in high school. No body was ever found and now another girl is missing. Silas Jones, the constable looking into the shooting, carries secrets of his own about [...]
Shop Indie Bookstores The second in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy and my favorite (so far). The story picks up with ‘punk hacker savant’ Lisbeth Salander being the prime suspect in the brutal murders of two journalists that were investigating a sex trafficking scandal. Salander, intent on clearing her name, must go underground to elude detection [...]
This is the prequel to the world wide best seller The Shadow of the Wind. Set in Barcelona in the 1920′s and 1930′s, this dark, gothic love story/mystery revolves around a young novelist, David Martin, who is commissioned to write a story like no other. 4 stars! Book Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon This post was [...]
April 21, 2009 – 12:38 pm
I enjoyed reading this book and loved Wiggins use of language and thought process. She made me think differently about quite a few things. That said, I got bogged down in the middle of the book with a little too much description. I was fascinated with her fictional depiction of Edward Curtis’ life (early western [...]
