Christa is a scientist who studies snails on a small isolated island. She’s perfectly happy with a life free from people thanks to a childhood spent in the spotlight. Her father was a world-famous naturalist with his own wildly popular TV show, but his plane crashed in the Alaskan wilderness when she was 2-years-old. Her mother carried on his work by creating a wildlife ... Read More...
Last Bit of Summer: Mini-Reviews
And by last I really mean LAST. Two more days left in August and then it’s September. But doesn’t everyone count Labor Day weekend as summer? I’m going to, even as ready as I am for this summer to be over. Thankfully, my end-of-August reading has been outstanding. More about that later, but today I’ve got two easy reading selections, both revolving around subjects near and dear ... Read More...
November Reading Wrap-Up
Goodbye, November, hello, December! Did anyone else find November to be a rather placid month? It went a bit faster, but as I age I always think that. I just can’t remember anything extra good or bad that happened—which is great, right? My reading felt the same way as I bounced between thrillers and literary fiction. A lot of enjoyable reading, but very little that wowed ... Read More...
Other People’s Houses
After a July of aggressively dark reading I gave myself some mental respite by starting August with two light backlist novels. I reviewed The Bestseller on Friday and today I’m happy to start the week with Other People’s Houses—a contemporary look at family life, marriage, and friendship in one L.A. neighborhood. Frances, is the novel’s anchor and its every-mom. She takes all ... Read More...
Backlist Beauties: Mini-Reviews
Last week I was supposed to start reading another fall new release novel. It's even one I'm looking forward to, Ken Follett's The Evening and the Morning, but the thought of 900 pages made my brain hurt. It's a sad truth—my attention span lately has shrunk to an amount of time easily measured by counting on my fingers. Except I usually forget what number I’m at before I hit ten ... Read More...
