Lights Out Tonight

Fiction by Mary Jane Clark.


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I've read several of Mary Jane Clark's books and they are fun and fast-paced mystery/thrillers. Her novels are similar to the "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark, and she is quite fortunate to be placed alphabetically right next door to that author.

This particular novel centered around an entertainment critic who gets mixed up in a murder/disappearance at a theater. It was a good read.


I also read recently by this author: Footprints in the Sand,  Dying for Mercy

Hold Tight

Fiction by Harlan Coben.


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A great thriller, this book really held my attention. I recommend it!




I also read by this author: The Innocent

The Wind Through The Keyhole

Fiction by Stephen King.


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This book belongs with Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series, (which contains at least seven novels not including the Marvel Comics graphic versions) but according to the notes it can be read as a stand-alone story.

I have not read any of the Dark Tower books, but I took a chance and read this book. It was true; the book was a good story all on its own. It was a little different, with a story-within-a-story-within-a-story format, but it was still enjoyable to read.


I also read by this author: Finders Keepers, Mr. Mercedes, Dreamcatcher.

The Lake House

Fiction by Kate Morton.


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This was a really good book; it was both a mystery and a character story. Everything I've read by this author has been excellent.


I also read by this author: The House at Riverton

The Pillars of the Earth

Fiction by Ken Follett.


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This book, set in twelfth-century England, should definitely be termed a historical saga. It took me a while to finish, as it was almost a thousand pages, but it was a really good story.

Half Broke Horses

Fiction by Jeanette Walls.


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I was not sure whether to classify this book as fiction or nonfiction. (And I didn't get it from the library, so I don't know how they shelved it.) According to the author, it's a "true-life novel," which means it's both, I suppose.

Anyways, this is the true story of the author's grandmother, retold in first person as if the woman were actually speaking to the reader. It's a good book, and it acts as a sort of prequel to the author's first book (see below), which is a memoir and therefore squarely NONfiction.

I've mentioned it before, but The Glass Castle is a fabulous book. Reading that book had painted quite a picture of the author's mother, and now Half Broke Horses explains a little bit more about her character.

The Same Sky

Fiction by Amanda Eyre Ward.


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Wow! What a great book!

I don't want to say too much about it and ruin it for you. Just read it!

As a side note, I liked the cover on the library copy I read better than the one above.

(Image from amazon.com)