I found The Lifeboat (2012) by Charlotte Rogan when I stumbled on (or Facebook shoved in my face) the Huffington Post’s list of 21 Books From the Last Five Years That Every Woman Should Read. Of the eight books I’d already read on that list, I’d really liked seven of them, so it inspired me to try out some more. After surviving 21 days in an overcrowded lifeboat lost at sea, Grace Winter is on trial for murder. Recently married into wealth and almost as quickly widowed, […]
He’s romantic for a stalker
I’ve read Lisa Kleypas before, but I had not ventured into her contemporary romance novels before. I’m a fan of contemporary and it’s never too late to start, so I began with Brown-Eyed Girl (2015). This was a quick, generally fun read, but nothing grabbed me. Ultimately, it was pretty forgettable. Avery Crosslin is a wedding planner who started a business with her half-sister Sofia. She meets Joe Travis, a friend of the groom, at a wedding she’s planning. He is very rich, very sexy, and […]
The Darkness of World War II
All the Light We Cannot See (2014) by Anthony Doerr may have suffered from unrealistically high expectations. I’ve been waiting to read it for months, I’ve heard great things about it from a number of different people, and it won a Pulitzer Prize. Don’t get me wrong. This was a well-written and haunting book. However, after all the hype, I was expecting it to be one of my favorites of the year. World War II is the backdrop for our two young protagonists. Marie Laure is […]
A Different Life in America
A friend of mine introduced me to Ta-Nehisi Coates with The Beautiful Struggle, a book I found both moving and eye-opening. When I started seeing Between the World and Me (2015) on bookshelves, I knew I’d be reading it. The Beautiful Struggle was a memoir of Coates’s life, growing up in the violent streets of Baltimore with a dictatorial father.Between the World and Me covers some of the same ground but in a very different way. This book is an existentialist (according to the NY Times) letter to […]
Another “investigative reporter” romance
I’m still trying to figure out how I feel about Pamela Clare. On the one hand, there’s something about her stories that just grab me. They’re either fast-paced and exciting or romantic in just the right away. On the other hand. there’s always something that doesn’t feel quite right or takes me out of the story. So, I just keep reading them. My latest Pamela Clare novel, Striking Distance (2013), I got sucked into after reading a preview of the first chapter. I was surprised by […]
The Realities of War and Family
I picked up Life After Life by Kate Atkinson despite some trepidation about the Groundhog Day premise but was ultimately impressed. When I started seeing A God in Ruins (2015) on bookshelves, I was eager to read another book by Atkinson. However, I was yet again put off by the premise. I was surprised that Atkinson chose to write about the Todd family, the same family that she’d focused on in her previous book. Specifically, she focuses on Teddy, Ursula’s younger brother and a pilot in the […]
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