I read this book after reading (and loving) The Things They Carried. This book in some ways is very familiar and similar to that. Some of the same characters and similar stories are told. Yet they are told in a different format where reality and the main character’s hallucinations are mixed together. The quote at [...]
Archive > September 2009
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
This is a heartbreaking book. I started it and didn’t put it down until it was finished, even though I was crying through most of it. Still Alice is about Alice Howland, a Harvard psychology professor who has spent the last 25 years working side by side with her husband as professors at one of [...]
Dune Road by Jane Green
This is the newest book by Jane Green that came out over the summer. It is another light, airy, chick lit type of book set in Highfield, Connecticut. For those who have read previous Jane Green books, this town is a familiar one even including some familiar characters from past books. Some of the themes [...]
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
I love books about travel…mostly because I’m unable to travel much myself. In Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert takes us through three very different worlds as she travels from Italy, India and Indonesia in the pursuit of joy and self peace. She reached her early 30s and realized that she did not really want the [...]
The Likeness by Tana French
I recently came across this author at the recommendation of the local librarian and read her first book In The Woods. This second book, The Likeness, features many of the same characters and is just as thrilling of a mystery as the first was. I sped through this story in a day and a half [...]
Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
This book fit in with the typical pattern that Jodi Picoult’s novels follow that includes a courtroom battle along with issues of family, life and love. In Handle With Care the central theme is around Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe’s daughter, Willow, who is five years old at the beginning of the book and was born [...]
God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
I once read in Newsweek where someone commented that this was one of the books that looked good on the bookshelf but that no one really read. I wanted to write about it because I disagree with that and think it has a lot to offer. The language uses a lot of imagery that might [...]
Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
This book has gained in popularity within the last year when the movie version of it was released. I have to admit that I don’t usually watch movies of books that I like. I usually end up leaving the movie angry that they’ve changed something or it isn’t quite how I had pictured it in [...]
Angels by Marian Keyes
This is one of the books that Marian Keyes wrote about the Walsh sisters. I already have written about Anybody Out There? which was about Anna, one of the younger sisters. Angels is about Margaret, or Maggie, the oldest of the Walsh girls. I’ve read all of her books about the Walshes and I have [...]
Where They Lay by Earl Swift
This is a book about a program that I had no idea even existed. The Central Identification Laboratory is a group that has been working to bring back the remains of soldiers that were killed during past conflicts…particularly the Vietnam War. The author details that there were approximately 78,000 American bodies that were never recovered [...]
