By: Ian McEwan Rating: 1 star I really struggled to get through this book. It’s the story of a young girl who witnesses an event in the 1930’s that defines her future, though the event (as she tells it) was entirely fabricated. Lots of personal tragedy for the involved parties, etc. Now, I have accepted […]
Book Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
October 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
By: Stieg Larsson Rating: 5 stars This book joins the list of favorite books this year. It was a captivating story that only took me a few days to read–simply because when I was about halfway through, it got so good that I couldn’t put it down and stayed up last weekend until about 1a.m. […]
Book Review: Fractured
October 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
By Karin Slaughter Rating: 4 stars I picked this book up at the library because it purported to be a murder mystery set in Atlanta. It was very much like reading an episode of The Closer, which is one of my favorite shows. The lead GBI agent put together odd, disconnected clues to solve the […]
Book Review: Born to Run
September 14, 2010 by Leave a Comment
By: Christopher McDougall Rating: 5 stars (easily) This book was singlehandedly the best book I’ve read all year, and one of the best I’ve ever read. So first, a huge thank you to our friend Michael, who gave us this book last year. This book tells the story of the Tarahumara Indians, a native population […]
Book Review: Eat Pray Love
September 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment
By: Elizabeth Gilbert Aside from the nasty divorce and the age of the author, I saw a lot of myself in this book. If you haven’t heard from press about the book or the movie (starring Julia Roberts), this is the story of a woman who spends a year in three places–Italy (“eat”), India (“pray”) […]
Book Review: Love in the Time of Cholera
September 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez This book, a translation from the original Spanish, started slowly and became quite a nice story. It tells the tale of a man who suffered with unrequited love for over fifty years, and finally is reunited with the love of his life. If you’ve noticed, I’ve been reading many books translated […]
