Dear John (Teddy Rose)
Enjoyable Debut Novel
Susanna Smith’s last living relative has recently died and she goes to Weymouth, Massachusetts to settle her aunt’s estate. Susanna’s faithful companion, a Weimaraner, goes along.
This is no usual estate. Both Susanna and her Aunt Susanna are both descendants of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams. The house is listed in the […]
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The Dead and the Gone (Amy)
321 pages
Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Dead and the Gone is the companion book to Life As We Knew It which I read earlier this year.
The disaster in this book is the same as in Life As We Knew It. An asteroid has hit the moon and knocked it closer to earth which affects the tides, volcanoes, […]
Popularity: 25% [?]
The Darker Side (Lesley)
The Darker Side by Cody McFadyen
Thriller
2008 Bantam
368 pages
Finished on 8/28/08
Rating: 4.5/5 Very Good
Publisher’s Blurb:
Cody McFadyen has shocked even the most jaded suspense fans with Shadow Man and The Face of Death. Now comes a thriller that outdoes them all, featuring a psychopath on a perverse crusade of murder. And the one woman who can stop […]
Popularity: 17% [?]
Daughters of the North (3M)
Daughters of the North, known as The Carhullan Army in the UK, is a dystopian novel set in an environmentally and economically ravaged Britain. Citizens are forced to be registered in cities where they are assigned work for the good of the state. Contraception is mandated and every female is fitted with a device […]
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Detective Story (3M)
Written in 1977 but published in the US for the first time this January, Detective Story by Nobel laureate Imre Kertesz tells the story of a group of men who, while working for an unnamed Latin American country’s government, go too far to stop their political enemies. While I thought Kaddish for a […]
Popularity: 16% [?]
Dreamers of the Day (Lesley)
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
Historical Fiction
Copyright 2008
Finished on 1/22/08
Rating: 4.5/5 (Terrific!)
Book Description
“I suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me. Nevertheless, I am sure of this much: My little story has become your history. You won’t really understand your times until you […]
Popularity: 14% [?]
Dervishes (Literary Feline)
Dervishes by Beth Helms
Picador, March 2008
Fiction; 314 pgs
Completed: 12/03/2007
Rating: 3 Stars
First Sentence: The telephone chimed as it always did, in the deep, dead middle of the night.
Reason for Reading: One of my places to look for book recommendations is Bookbrowse. Several months ago Bookbrowse began a pre-release program called First Impressions for […]
Popularity: 14% [?]
Dreamers of the Day (3M)
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell is a fictional story about Agnes, a middle-aged woman from Cleveland, who finally gets the courage and means to travel on her own. Her choice is Cairo, and while there she meets up with Winston Churchill, Gertrude Bell, and T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) while they are […]
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Dreamers of the Day (Jill)
Historians will tell you that to understand the present you must comprehend the past. I believe that is what Mary Doria Russell is trying to show us in her latest book, Dreamers of the Day.
At initial glance, Dreamers of the Day is a coming-of-age novel about late bloomer, Agnes Shanklin, who becomes an heiress after […]
Popularity: 14% [?]
