I bought this book over two and half years ago while visiting the Dublin Writers Museum because of course I had to leave with at least one book by an Irish author, and Joyce is scary (I also participated in a Literary Pub Crawl of Dublin during that vacation though I think I preferred the one I did … [Read more]
Jen K’s Review #8: The Secret Keeper
This is the fourth novel available by Kate Morton, and as far as I'm tracking, I'm now completely caught up on her writing. While this novel displayed many of the same engaging plot twists, and secrets buried in the past, I didn't enjoy this one quite as much as some of her previous efforts, though … [Read more]
Jen K’s Review #7: The Rhythm of Memory
Given how much I enjoyed Richman's novel The Lost Wife, there really was no way I was going to pass this up when I found it for $3.99 in a bargain bin. Like her other novel, she plays with timelines, basically using the novel's modern day of 1998 to frame the story. However, she starts the novel … [Read more]
Several depressing true stories in French.
For one thing, this book is in French. There’s no translation in English, and it would probably also be hard to do, since parts are in transliterated Moroccan Arabic, although not much. This is a collection of stories of women, children, and of whole families in Morocco in the 1980s. Aïcha … [Read more]
Simple Dog, Alot, and Cake!
My BFF Nicole and I have been fans of Allie Brosh's blog for years. … [Read more]
The Players and the Played
Morality Play is another jewelbox novel - sparse, elegant, compact. There is a simplicity and a brevity to the story - it takes place over two weeks - that could feel insufficient, but doesn't. This could be a longer book, but the sketchbook quality of it fits the time and story. The story is … [Read more]