My rating: 3 of 5 stars to Audrey Niffenegger‘s novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife, published in 2003 and later made into a movie. This one is a hard book for me to rate. There was so many great things in it, but there was also a lot that made me stepContinue 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
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
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
Smokin’ Seventeen by Janet Evanovich My rating: 4 of 5 stars Stephanie Plum certainly has a lot of people in her life who want to tell her what to do. I’m not sure I’d handle it as well as she does… and she doesn’t always handle it well. But that’sContinue Reading
My rating: 3 of 5 stars to Jeffrey Eugenides‘s The Marriage Plot. My book club selected this a few years ago, given they had all previously read Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides before I joined. I’ve since moved and not with that book club anymore, but I keep in touch withContinue Reading
My rating: 3 of 5 stars to David Gibbins‘s Atlantis, the first in the “Jack Howard” action adventure thriller series. I chose this book while walking around an airport, looking for something to read while on a 6-hour flight across the country. I’m a fan of the suspense / thriller genre,Continue Reading
My rating: 4 of 5 stars to Kate Morton‘s The Distant Hours, a beautifully written and compelling story of sisters, mothers and daughters across two different time periods set in London and rural England. Why This Book? I’d read one of her other books, The Forgotten Garden, and fell in loveContinue Reading
Abigale Hall by Lauren A. Forry My rating: 3 of 5 stars to Lauren A. Forry‘s Abigale Hall, a mystery and suspense novel I received via NetGalley and Skyhorse Publishing as an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) in exchange for a fair and honest review. Thank you to both for this opportunity,Continue Reading
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich My rating: 4 of 5 stars Pure gold in humor! 4 unforgettable characters: Stephanie Plum, Joe Morelli, Ranger and Grandma Mazur. Let’s do a lil’ recap: Stephanie: Your everyday girl… with great humor, a bit of sass, lots of determination and an inabilityContinue Reading