Getting the Girl (Nicola)
Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery by Susan Juby
Pages: 339
First Published: Sept. 19, 2008 (CAN), Sept. 30, 2008 (US)
Genre: YA, realistic fiction
Rating: 4/5
This book came as an extra. I had requested two YA books from the publisher and they were packaged together with this one as a boxed set of […]
Popularity: 4% [?]
The Gargoyle (Nicola)
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Pages: 468
First Published: Aug. 5, 2008
Genre: Magical realism
Rating: 4.5/5
First sentence:
Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.
Comments: I think that is an amazing opening line. How could you not read on after that? The process of reading the book was pure joy from the first page. The writing exquisite and […]
Popularity: 13% [?]
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Caribousmom)
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. -From Isola Pribby to Juliet, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society-
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’ first novel will certainly ruin you ‘for enjoying bad books.’ Set on the island of Guernsey (in the Channel Islands) in the months following the Second World […]
Popularity: 20% [?]
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Lesley)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Contemporary Fiction - Epistolary
2008 The Dial Press
Finished on 7/23/08
Rating: 4.75//5 (Fabulous!)
ARC - Release date of July 29th
“Here’s who will love this book—anyone who nods in profound agreement with the statement,’Reading keeps you from going gaga.’ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel […]
Popularity: 28% [?]
The Girl in Saskatoon (Nicola)
The Girl in Saskatoon: A Meditation on Memory and Murder by Sharon Butala
Pages: 260
First Published: March, 2008
Genre: memoir, True Crime
Rating: DNF
First sentence:
One soft spring evening in 1962 a young nurse named Alexandra Wiwcharuk wasmurdered and an entire city came to a stop: Alexandra’s murder was all anyonecould talk about.
Comments: With that promising first sentence, I […]
Popularity: 27% [?]
The Gargoyle(Amy)
Andrew Davidson
465 page
While driving in his car after binging on cocaine and bourbon, the narrator of The Gargoyle sees a vision of flaming arrows and swerving to avoid them, gets into a horrific car crash that results in him being severely burned. This would be a terrible fate for any person but the narrator had […]
Popularity: 39% [?]
The Girl with No Shadow (Lesley)
The Girl With No Shadow by Joanne Harris
Contemporary Fiction
2008 William Morrow (Harper Collins)
Finished on 4/15/08
Rating: 4.5/5 (Terrific!)
Book Description
Since she was a little girl, the wind has dictated every move Vianne Rocher has made, buffeting her from place to place, from the small French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a […]
Popularity: 33% [?]
