The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson – Book Review
Mikael Blomqvist is a respected reporter and publisher of Millenium, a moderately successful financial reporting magazine that he owns with his long time lover Erika Berger. His career and all of their prospects take a nose dive after he is convicted of making libelous statements against business magnate Hans Erik Wennerstrom. Blomqvist is offered the [...]
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, by Geraldine Brooks – Book Review [TSS]
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, by Geraldine Brooks, sees Anna Frith, a young mother and housemaid in a small village, grapple with the ideas of religion, scripture and the strength of her own faith when an outbreak of the plague cripples the community in which she was born and raised. As the village [...]
Chosen, by Chandra Hoffman – Book Review
Chandra Hoffman’s Chosen arrived as an unsolicited review copy a few weeks ago from Harper Collins, and I wasn’t sure when I would get to it. Any book that promises to examine the adoption issue from all angles is definitely high on my list of books to be read, but it was this review of Chosen [...]
To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee – Book Review
In To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch is a single father raising his two children, Jem and Scout, in Maycomb County, Alabama under the watchful eyes of dear and eccentric neighbors. Atticus rules the roost with a seemingly lenient hands off approach (he has Calpurnia to more strongly keep the kids in [...]
Yummy: The Last Days of A Southside Shorty, by G. Neri & Randy Duburke
Yummy: The Last Days of A Southside Shorty, by G. Neri & Randy Duburke Lee and Low Books – July 30, 2010 – Paperback – 96 pages Source: Review Copy I can’t recall when I first heard the story of Robert “Yummy” Sandifer, but I remember that it was sometime earlier this year. I was [...]
Remembrance, by Jude Deveraux – Book Review
Hayden Lane is a romance writer living in New York City. While writing her next novel, she becomes enamored of the lead male character in the book, so much so that she literally cannot stop writing about him even though her manuscript is long overdue. Through time travel via hypnosis, Hayden finds herself trapped in [...]
Perfect Peace, by Daniel Black – Book Review
Perfect Peace, by Daniel Black St. Martin’s Press – March 16, 2010 – Hardcover – 352 pages Source: Personal Copy Gus and Emma Jean Peace marry for less than perfect reasons (neither has expectations that they will be able to get a better marriage partner) in 1930′s Arkansas , and start a family increasingly populated [...]
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker – Book Review
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker Harvest Books – May 28, 2003 (Original Publication 1982) – Paperback – 290 pages Source: Personal Copy Celie writes letters to God, and her sister Nettie after circumstances separate them, leading to them experiencing vastly different lives. Celie suffers to find her place in a family and then a [...]
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