CarrieK | March 1, 2010
Title: The Year of Pleasures
Author: Elizabeth Berg
Genre: Contemporary fiction
Publisher: Random House
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Source: Print copy from my personal library
First line: I had been right to want to drive to the Midwest, taking only the back roads.
How have I never read Elizabeth Berg before? Her name has been on my radar for some [...]
CarrieK | March 1, 2010
Ruth’s diary is the new novel by Fiona Robyn, called Thaw. She has decided to blog the novel in its entirety over the next few months, so you can read it for free.
Ruth’s first entry is below, and you can continue reading tomorrow here.
These hands are ninety-three years old. They belong to Charlotte Marie [...]
CarrieK | February 16, 2010
Title: Almost Home
Author: Pam Jenoff
Genre: Contemporary fiction, thriller
Publisher: Atria Books
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Review copy from the author
First line: I barrel through the double doors and across the lobby of the State Department, bypassing the metal detector and waving my plastic identification badge at the guard, who nods in recognition.
Jordan Weiss has worked [...]
CarrieK | February 15, 2010
Title: U is for Undertow
Author: Sue Grafton
Genre: Mystery
Publisher: Putnam
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Audiobook from the public library
First line: What fascinates me about life is that, now and then, the past rises up and declares itself.
I wasn’t a big fan of T is for Trespass, but with this latest edition in the Kinsey Milhone [...]
CarrieK | February 1, 2010
Title: The Summer We Fell Apart
Author: Robin Antalek
Genre: Contemporary fiction
Publisher: Harper
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Source: TLC Book Tours
First line: The summer we took in a boarder my mother started wearing headscarves.
The four Haas children grew up in a home with little or no parental supervision. Their father was a playwright whose magnum opus came [...]
CarrieK | February 1, 2010
Title: An Abundance of Katherines
Author: John Green
Genre: YA contemporary fiction
Publisher: Dutton Books
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Source: Print copy from the public library
First line: The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath.
Colin is a recent [...]
CarrieK | January 29, 2010
Title: Belong to Me
Author: Marisa de los Santos
Genre: Contemporary fiction
Publisher: Harper
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Source: Print copy from my own library.
First line: My fall from suburban grace, or more accurately, my failure to achieve the merest molehill of suburban grace from which to fall, began with a dinner party and a perfectly innocent, modestly [...]
CarrieK | January 22, 2010
Title: Looking for Alaska
Author: John Green
Genre: YA contemporary fiction
Publisher: Dutton Books
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Print copy from the public library
First line: The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party.
John [...]