What Alice Forgot (2011) is the third book I’ve read by Liane Moriarty. I’ve enjoyed all of them, although Big Little Lies is still my favorite. The premise for this one was…perhaps a little unrealistic, but very intriguing, putting it in a strong second on my list of favorite Moriarty books. Alice wakes up on the floor of a spin class. She’s told that she’s fallen and was knocked out. Alice doesn’t understand why she’s in a gym, and she doesn’t know half the people calling out […]
War and football (and also much more)
I was in the middle of reading Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012) by Ben Fountain when I accidentally stepped on my Kindle. Somehow my foot knocked my Kindle off airplane mode and the WiFi turned on, immediately returning all my overdue books back to the library. It wasn’t until a couple of months later that I finally got Billy Lynn back on my Kindle and finished reading it. This isn’t very important except that I’m pretty sure I would have gotten more out of this book […]
Post-apocalypse with a political agenda
My book club gets me to read a number of books I would have never read otherwise, and One Second After (2009) by William Forstchen is one of them. On the one hand, this book is a bestseller, with 4.5 stars on Amazon and over five thousand reviews! That’s a good sign. On the other hand, this book begins with a foreword by Newt Gingrich. Eww, please don’t mix my fiction with politics, especially politicians I don’t particularly like. One Second After is a post-apocalyptic tale set […]
Animals are people, too, or people are animals, something like that
Sometimes I think I should have been some kind of wildlife biologist/animal behaviorist. But not one that performs experiments or has to kill its research. I’d rather just watch and observe. In Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures (2013), Virginia Morell answers the question of whether animals are able to think and feel by describing studies done with a number of different animals. If you asked me when I was in kindergarten whether animals had thoughts or emotions, I would have said ‘of […]
A new discovery! Written…almost 90 years ago
Anne with an ‘e’ played a huge role in my childhood. I can’t remember when my mom first bought me Anne of Green Gables, but the rest of the series followed soon after. The first time I saw the movie, I was enthralled. The casting was perfect, and I was in love with Gilbert. The Emily trilogy was an exciting find as well, although not quite as impressionable. I always assumed I’d read everything by L.M. Montgomery, but then I found a review for The […]
So the hero is a politician…
I’ve been on a bit of a Pamela Clare kick since I found her name on some kind of romantic novels list.Extreme Exposure (2005) is one of Clare’s contemporary novels. For the most part, I’ve found Clare’s novels to be suspenseful and fun to read but not particularly remarkable. For instance, I read Extreme Exposure probably a couple of months ago, and I’m having a hard time remembering enough to write this review. Oops, should have written it earlier. Kara is a single mother and investigative journalist in […]
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