By Alice Steinbach This book gets 3.5 stars. It tells the story of the author, who, once her children are grown, takes a leave of absence from her job as a reporter and travels. Her goal is to re-discover herself and her sense of self. What makes her tick, how she has changed, and how […]
Book Review: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
May 29, 2010 by Leave a Comment
By Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver This book gets 5 stars. If more stars were available, I would award them to this book and to every Michael Pollan book I’ve read. This is now on my list of “Books everyone in America should read.” The basic premise of this book is […]
Book Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire
May 23, 2010 by Leave a Comment
By Steig Larsson This book was an unexpected gem. I had heard of the next book in this series, “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest,” but didn’t realize this was in that series until about halfway through the book. The Background: Murder mystery filled with undercover reporting, scandal, a sex-trafficking operation, and murders thrown […]
Book Review: The Secret Life of Bees
April 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I thought this was a good story. I always like a good “coming into your own as a woman” story, and this was a nice change of pace from how they normally go. Coming from a background working with abused and neglected kids, I was happy to see that the story didn’t assume that a […]
Book Review: Shutter Island
March 9, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This weekend, I read Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane. Eric and I always prefer to read books that have been made into movies before we see the movie, and this was no exception. It was a great book–captured my attention, and kept it for most of the book with a few exceptions (the dream sequences, […]
Book Review: Dreamcatcher
January 25, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Over the last two years, I have undertaken a quest to read as many Stephen King books as possible. In 2008, I read about 20, and last year I was only able to manage another 5–although my reading time was limited with all the changes in our lives. I’m glad to be back on my […]
