The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy My rating: 1 of 5 stars 1 out of 5 stars to Barbara Gowdy‘s novel, The White Bone, a story about a family of elephants wandering around the safari. Yes, that’s right, I’ve given out a 1 star rating… of ~500 books I’ve read,Continue Reading
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese My rating is 3.5 of 5 stars to Abraham Verghese‘s novel, Cutting for Stone, which was a book club selection about 7 years ago. At first, I wasn’t sure I’d like the book, as I expected it to be quite sad. And back then,Continue Reading
Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Diane Mott Davidson‘s “Goldy Bear Culinary” mystery series is one of my early favorites, and I’m sad that the author isn’t writing anymore. There were about 20 books in total, but this review is for #16, Crunch Time.Continue Reading
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling My rating: 4 of 5 stars “OMG — Not another book review on Harry Potter.” *or* “OMG — I LOVE HARRY POTTER” I bet you just said something along those lines… Me too. But I have to do this forContinue Reading
My rating: 3 of 5 stars to I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan, a fiction novel with some elements of fantasy buried about. Sometimes I don’t know how books fall into my lap, sometimes I do. With this one, it flew in the wind, also known as a former book club, andContinue Reading
The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lilian Jackson Braun My rating: 4 of 5 stars Background The summer after I graduated from college, I started missing regular reading… during school, I had less personal choice and recreational reads, as all the college textbooks and novels were the priority. IContinue Reading
All That Remains by Patricia Cornwell My rating: 4 of 5 stars The “Kay Scarpetta” mystery series by Patricia Cornwell was one of the first adult mystery book series I began reading. I also started these very young, around 13 or 14, which may not be the best thing forContinue Reading
Alice in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll and adapted by Jane Carruth My rating: 4 of 5 stars Lewis Carroll‘s Alice in Wonderland is one we are all familiar with at some point in our lives. Many of us have read an abridged version, heard the basics of the tale from friendsContinue Reading
Beowulf by Unknown My rating: 4 of 5 stars Beowulf is thought to have been written around the year 1000 AD, give or take a century. And the author is the extremely famous, very popular and world renowned writer… Unknown. Got you there, didn’t I? LOL Probably not… if you’reContinue Reading
A to Z Favorites: A list of 26 things that I adore, one for each letter, a challenge posed to any readers who would like to participate Yes, you are correct — this is not exactly a characteristic; however, in my defense, for the last 5 Sundays, I’ve provided anContinue Reading