Book Title: Night Fall
Author: Nelson DeMille
Genre: Suspense, Thriller, Mystery
Published Date: November 1, 2004
Rating: 3 stars, disappointing
This #TBT review was originally posted on January 20, 2008 and was read for a number of reading challenges: Chunkster, A to Z Titles (N), 101 Books in 1,001 Days. Continue reading “#TBT Review: Night Fall”
Book Title: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Author: Kim Edwards
Genre: Literary fiction, Contemplative fiction
Published Date: May 30, 2006
Rating: 4 stars
This #TBT review was originally posted on January 22, 2008 and was read for a number of reading challenges: TBR, A to Z Authors (E), and 101 Books in 1,001 Days. Continue reading “#TBT Review: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”
Book Title: The Nixie’s Song: Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles
Author: Tony diTerlizzi and Holly Black
Genre: Children
Rating: 2.5 stars
“The Spiderwick Chronicles” leave the old-fashioned charm of New England far behind and head south for some fiendish faerie fun in the hot Florida sun. Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow. Continue reading “#TBT Thoughts: The Nixie’s Song”
Book Title: Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
Genres: Classic Fiction
Back in the beginning of 2008, I took on a number of reading challenges: My Year of Reading Dangerously, Chunkster, Mini challenge #7, A to Z Title (G), Back to History and 101 Books in 1,001 Days. And this is the first book with reflective thoughts that kicked off the year. Continue reading “#TBT Thoughts: Great Expectations”
Book Title: The Life You Long For
Author: Maribeth Fischer
Genres: Adult Fiction, Suspense
Pub Date: March 6, 2007
3 STARS
When every mother’s worst nightmare becomes Grace’s reality, she must examine her entire life — from the wrong choices to the right mistakes. Grace’s son Jack is a miracle. At three years old, he’s fighting a mysterious, deadly disease that his doctors predicted would kill him as a baby. Even though it was determined to be mitochondrial disease, the little-known illness remains a mystery to medicine. Grace has sat by his bedside every minute he has been in the hospital, questioned every diagnosis, every medicine — even poring over medical journals and books at home late into the night. To the world, Grace’s fierce dedication is the sole reason for her son’s survival. But someone suspects that perhaps Jack’s disease is not what it seems. Continue reading “#TBT Review: The Life You Long For”
Book Title: The Keep
Author: Jennifer Egan
Genres: Suspense, Adult Fiction
Pub Date: Reprint 7-10-07
5 STARS
Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep-–the tower, the last stand-–is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Continue reading “#TBT Review: The Keep”
Title: The World toCome
Author: Dara Horn
Genre: Literary Fiction
Pub Date: October 17, 2006
3 STARS
A million-dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles’ cocktail hour. The unlikely thief, former child prodigy Benjamin Ziskind, is convinced that the painting once hung in his parents’ living room. This work of art opens a door through which we discover his family’s startling history–from an orphanage in Soviet Russia where Chagall taught to suburban New Jersey and the jungles of Vietnam.
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