Black Wave (Caribousmom)
It was just after dark in a lonely reach of the South Pacific. As we sped westward, the ocean floor was a mile below us - or it was supposed to be. Like when microphone feedback suddenly fills an auditorium until you must cover your ears, a deafening shrill exploded through the boat. […]
Popularity: 57% [?]
Fractured (Nicola)
Fractured by Karen Slaughter
Special Agent Will Trent, Book 2
Pages: 388
Finished: Oct. 18, 2008
First Published: July 29, 2008
Genre: thriller, mystery
Rating: 3.5/5
Reason for Reading: received a review copy from Random House Canada. Plus I’ve read all the author’s books, this is her latest.
First sentence:
Abigail Campano sat in her car parked on the street outside her own house.
Comments: […]
Popularity: 23% [?]
House and Home (Caribousmom)
She had conceived children in that house, suffered a miscarriage in that house, brought her babies home there, argued with her husband there, made love, rejoiced, despaired, sipped tea, and gossiped and sobbed and counseled and blessed her friends there, walked the halls with sick children there, and scrubbed the worn brick of the […]
Popularity: 25% [?]
Undiscovered Country (3M)
The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns, – HAMLET
Lin Enger’s debut novel is a modern take on Hamlet, but with a few differences from the original. Even though I’m very familiar with the play, I found that Undiscovered Country surprisingly kept me in suspense throughout. There were just enough differences to keep […]
Popularity: 27% [?]
So Long At The Fair (Jill)
So Long At The Fair
By Christina Schwartz
Completed September 9, 2008
Christina Schwartz’s latest book, So Long At The Fair, was a story about adultery and distrust in relationships. At the center, it’s the story of Jon and Ginny, high school sweethearts who have been married for many years, and Jon’s affair with his co-worker, Freddi. But […]
Popularity: 25% [?]
Mosquito (Laura)
Mosquito
Roma Tearne
299 pages
Life in this paradise, he felt, was exactly as the beautiful mosquito that lived here, composed in equal parts of loveliness and deadliness. (p. 284)
Theo Samarajeeva is a successful Sri Lankan writer, who returned from London to his homeland after his wife’s sudden death. He spends long, languorous days in his beach house, […]
Popularity: 21% [?]
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (Laura)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer
277 pages
In 1946, Juliet Ashton is a London-based writer who has gained some degree of fame writing fictional accounts of wartime under an assumed name. Now, as London begins to rebuild and recover, Juliet is casting about for new material with which to continue her […]
Popularity: 20% [?]
Aberrations (Literary Feline)
“It’s a sudden loss of muscle control,” is how I would always begin, feeling cornered, “while remaining conscious. It’s as if your body’s faintin’ but you’re not.” [ pg 24]
Aberrations by Penelope Przekop
Emerald Book Co, 2008
Fiction; 241 pgs
Angel Duet is 21 and everything she believed and thought she knew is about to change. […]
Popularity: 22% [?]
The Map Thief (Caribousmom)
Admiral Zheng stops and extends his arm. A Vice admiral places a scroll in his outstretched hand. He turns his attention to it, unrolls it, and reads aloud: “‘All ships moored are ordered back to the capital, and all goods on the ships are to be turned over to the Department of Internal Affairs and […]
Popularity: 20% [?]
Say Goodbye (Nicola)
Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner
Sixth book in the Quincy/Rainie series
Pages: 360
First Published: July 15, 2008
Genre: thriller, mystery
Rating: 4.5/5
First sentence:
He was moaning, a guttural sound in the back of his throat as his fingers tightened their grip in her hair.
Comments: Kimberly Quincy, FBI agent, is told a strange tale by a prostitute of a very scary […]
Popularity: 15% [?]
Previous Stories
- Black Wave (Caribousmom)
- Fractured (Nicola)
- House and Home (Caribousmom)
- Undiscovered Country (3M)
- So Long At The Fair (Jill)
- Mosquito (Laura)
- The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (Laura)
- Aberrations (Literary Feline)
- The Map Thief (Caribousmom)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Caribousmom)
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Lesley)
- The Seance (Nicola)
- The Lace Reader (Caribousmom)
- The Lace Reader(Amy)
