This was an exciting story about an abandoned baby and a serial killer (or two!). It is supposed to be the beginning of a trilogy, so I'm looking for the next book.
I also read by this author: Blood Red
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Little Girl Lost
Fiction by Wendy Corsi Staub
https://www.barnesandnoble.com
This was an exciting story about an abandoned baby and a serial killer (or two!). It is supposed to be the beginning of a trilogy, so I'm looking for the next book.
This was an exciting story about an abandoned baby and a serial killer (or two!). It is supposed to be the beginning of a trilogy, so I'm looking for the next book.
Friday, January 3, 2020
Wool
Fiction by Hugh Howey
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/
In the dystopian future, after the world is destroyed, people are forced to live underground in huge silos 144 levels deep. Life is carefully and rigidly controlled, and the most dangerous thing to wish for is to go OUTSIDE.
Because if you want to go outside, they'll let you out... but you won't come back. Instead you will have to clean off the camera lenses that give the people inside a view of the barren and inhospitable world, and then you will lie down and die from the toxic air.
As you can see, this book is pretty dark. But hey, the dystopian future is no picnic, right?
In the dystopian future, after the world is destroyed, people are forced to live underground in huge silos 144 levels deep. Life is carefully and rigidly controlled, and the most dangerous thing to wish for is to go OUTSIDE.
Because if you want to go outside, they'll let you out... but you won't come back. Instead you will have to clean off the camera lenses that give the people inside a view of the barren and inhospitable world, and then you will lie down and die from the toxic air.
As you can see, this book is pretty dark. But hey, the dystopian future is no picnic, right?
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Nameless Series
Fiction by Dean Koontz
https://www.amazon.com
This is a series of six novellas available only though Amazon Kindle. While I am not a fan of electronic readers (I strongly prefer paper books), I AM a fan of Mr. Koontz. So, I downloaded the Kindle app on my phone and read these stories.
(In the interest of full disclosure: I also was away from home without anything to read over Christmas break, AND this series was free with my Amazon prime membership. These factors completely persuaded me to put aside my distaste for e-readers.)
These stories were really good! The protagonist is a man called Nameless, who can't remember anything about his past, even his own identity. (That's why he's called Nameless; get it?) Anyways, he goes around finding people who have been victimized by those the law can't or won't rescue them from, and saving these poor souls in vigilante, butt-kicking style.
This is a series of six novellas available only though Amazon Kindle. While I am not a fan of electronic readers (I strongly prefer paper books), I AM a fan of Mr. Koontz. So, I downloaded the Kindle app on my phone and read these stories.
(In the interest of full disclosure: I also was away from home without anything to read over Christmas break, AND this series was free with my Amazon prime membership. These factors completely persuaded me to put aside my distaste for e-readers.)
These stories were really good! The protagonist is a man called Nameless, who can't remember anything about his past, even his own identity. (That's why he's called Nameless; get it?) Anyways, he goes around finding people who have been victimized by those the law can't or won't rescue them from, and saving these poor souls in vigilante, butt-kicking style.
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
The Thorn Birds
Fiction by Colleen McCullough
https://www.barnesandnoble.com
This book was published in 1977 and is considered a classic by many readers. I'd heard of it (mostly because of the early 1980's miniseries version on TV that everyone talked about at the time) but had never read it, or watched the TV show.
It's a family saga type of novel, beginning in the early 1900's and set in Australia. I really liked the characters and enjoyed the story. I did feel like it was more tragic that it needed to be; when I become fond of characters I'd really prefer they end up happy. I mean, this IS fiction. The author can do what she wants with these folks, so why not make them happy? Still, this is a good book.
Sunday, December 29, 2019
Sad Cypress
Fiction by Agatha Christie.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com
In this story, Elinor Carlisle stands accused of murder, and it really looks like she did it. But, since this is an Agatha Christie mystery, the reader knows she cannot have, because the obvious solution can't be the correct one. Only Hercule Poirot can save her!
On a side note, I love this cover but I don't love the title. I noticed the French version of this novel is called Je ne suis pas couplable, which means "I'm not guilty." I like that title better.
In this story, Elinor Carlisle stands accused of murder, and it really looks like she did it. But, since this is an Agatha Christie mystery, the reader knows she cannot have, because the obvious solution can't be the correct one. Only Hercule Poirot can save her!
On a side note, I love this cover but I don't love the title. I noticed the French version of this novel is called Je ne suis pas couplable, which means "I'm not guilty." I like that title better.
I also read recently by this author: One Two Buckle My Shoe
Saturday, December 28, 2019
The Girls at 17 Swann Street
Fiction by Yara Zgheib.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/
I wasn't sure what this book would be about based on the title; what is this house at 17 Swann Street and why do only girls live there? I thought perhaps the address mentioned contains a block of student apartments, or a brothel? But 17 Swann Street is not a house; it's a treatment center, and the patients there are all suffering from eating disorders. So... that's why they are all girls....
This book contains a sometimes-too-realistic portrait of what it's like to have anorexia, and how hard it is to recover.
I wasn't sure what this book would be about based on the title; what is this house at 17 Swann Street and why do only girls live there? I thought perhaps the address mentioned contains a block of student apartments, or a brothel? But 17 Swann Street is not a house; it's a treatment center, and the patients there are all suffering from eating disorders. So... that's why they are all girls....
This book contains a sometimes-too-realistic portrait of what it's like to have anorexia, and how hard it is to recover.
Monday, December 23, 2019
Smoke Screen
Fiction by Terri Blackstock
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/
In this story, a small-town young woman called Brenna is afraid of losing her children to her ex-husband. Things are further complicated by the arrival in town of the man who was convicted of her father's murder fourteen years before, newly pardoned by the governor. Plus her old flame from high school shows up, a guy who happens to be the son of said recently-freed convict.
This is a very rich plot set up and the story was good, but I did feel like it was a little rushed. The book seemed like it ended too quickly to me.
I also read recently by this author: Never Again Goodbye
In this story, a small-town young woman called Brenna is afraid of losing her children to her ex-husband. Things are further complicated by the arrival in town of the man who was convicted of her father's murder fourteen years before, newly pardoned by the governor. Plus her old flame from high school shows up, a guy who happens to be the son of said recently-freed convict.
This is a very rich plot set up and the story was good, but I did feel like it was a little rushed. The book seemed like it ended too quickly to me.
I also read recently by this author: Never Again Goodbye
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