Review: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris My rating: 5 of 5 stars What can I say? This is classic David Sedaris book – witty short stories, wonderful quick reads. He packs so much into such compact stories! He has you laughing at the absurdities of his life because you recognize some […]
Review: In the Time of the Butterflies
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez My rating: 3 of 5 stars I finally got through this book – it is a fictional novel that is based on historical figures, the Dominican Mariposa sisters. The author herself is Dominican and her family left as political refugees. Through research she found her family’s […]
Review: The Dogs of Babel
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a super quick read (took me a week) after taking forever on my last book. A unique take on a tragic love story with a sub-plot diversion. Very well written, very introspective. Narrator and main character Paul was very well […]
Review: Looking for Jake: Stories
Looking for Jake: Stories by China Miéville My rating: 3 of 5 stars I came into this book not really knowing Mieville’s style. These stories were all dark and several had a post-apocalyptic feel. Not necessarily a feel-good series of short-stories but not all books should be. Since the subject was not light and airy […]
Book Review: The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold My rating: 3 of 5 stars Interesting concept but I struggled with the idea that the narrator, a murdered 14 year old girl, could be so seemingly nonchalant about her murder. I would have liked to see more dimensionality in her character, more anger, less acceptance. A good idea […]
Review: Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited
Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited by Elyse Schein My rating: 4 of 5 stars A fascinating true-story recounted by the twins themselves. Separated at birth and adopted by separate families who were not aware they were adopting one half of a set of twins, Paula & Elyse find each other in […]
Goodreads.com & some book reviews
So I gave up my People magazine subscription once again and received my husband’s 2nd hand Kindle reader (he upgraded to the latest). I was hesitant at first about switching to the Kindle but it has won me over in one major way… it’s so slim and compact that it fits in my purse better […]
I love L’Engle!
My favorite childhood author, Madeleine L’Engle, passed away earlier this month. I read her Time Quartet when I was in late elementary/early middle school and devoured several more of her books that were not in the series. I had Kenny buy me the series again a couple of years but they had been collecting dust […]
First Book Reviews of 2007
I have finished a few books these last couple of months and wanted to share my reviews so here are the first four books for this new(ish) year… Why Do Men Have Nipples? was a bunch of fun questions related to the human body – sort of like cocktail party questions, you gotta have a […]
I *finally* finished Book #8!
It took me forever to finish my latest book, Cuba and the Night by Pico Iyer. Being Cuban-American, I always gravitate toward fictional stories based in or about Cuba. This was no exception. It was set in the 80’s, during the days of the Cold War and Reagan. The story is mostly narrated from the […]
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