Resistance (Nicola)
Resistance: A Woman’s Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France by Agnes Humbert
Translated by Barbara Mellor
Pages: 270 + 100pgs of extraneous material (Afterward, index, etc.)
First Published: 1946, 1st English translation Sept. 2, 2008
Genre: memoir, WWII
Rating: 4.5/5
First sentence:
Rumours are flying, all flatly contradictory, but it seems clear that the Germans are advancing on all fronts.
Comments: […]
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Ringside, 1925 (Teddy Rose)
Written for Young Adults, but Just as Engaging for Adults
The year is 1925 in small town Tennessee. The school year is winding down and the children are excited about having a laid back summer. However, when it comes to the towns peoples attention that the science teacher, J. T. Scopes taught Darwin’s theory of evolution […]
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The Road Home (Jill)
The Road Home
By Rose Tremain
Completed September 27, 2008
The Road Home was the Orange Prize winning novel by Rose Tremain – a story of Lev, a Russian immigrant living in London. Lev immigrated to Britain after the mill in his village closed, leaving him without a means to support his mother and daughter. The decision to […]
Popularity: 22% [?]
Resistance (Jill)
Resistance
By Owen Sheers
Completed June 27, 2008
I think poets make great novelists. Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, even Shel Silverstein all embrace a stunningly descriptive way of writing that makes their stories and characters just flow through your mind. Like his poetic counterparts, Owen Sheers used this lyrical style in his debut novel Resistance.
Resistance is an […]
Popularity: 23% [?]
Ritual (Nicola)
Ritual by Mo Hayder
Third in the Jack Caffrey series
Pages: 410
First Published: Sept. 2008 (Canada)
Genre: thriller, mystery
Rating: 4.5/5
First sentence:
Just after lunch on a Tuesday in May and nine feet under water in Bristol’s’floating harbour’, police diver Sergeant ‘Flea’ Marley closed her glovedfingers round a human hand.
Comments: A severed human hand has been found in the harbour […]
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The Resurrectionist (Nicola)
The Resurrectionist by Jack O’Connell
Pages: 304
Finished: May 13, 2008
First Published: April 2008
Genre: literary fiction
Rating: 4/5
Reason for Reading: received this ARC.
First sentence:
Alone in the doctor’s office, Sweeney’s eyes lingered on the final panel and, once again, he found himself feeling something close to sympathy for the cartoon strongman, exiled and adrift, the world town down […]
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The Ravine (raidergirl3)
Paul Quarrington has been in the news lately (in Canada) as the author of the winning Canada Reads book, King Leary. I haven’t read it yet, but when I got the opportunity to read his latest book, released March 11, 2008, I jumped.
And then I laughed my way through this book. Phil McQuigge is a […]
Popularity: 21% [?]
River (Lesley)
River by Lowen Clausen
Contemporary Fiction
2008 Silo Press
Finished on 2/3/08
Rating: 4/5 (Very Good)
Book Description
From a remote corner of a vanishing American landscape, a bereaved father begins a journey down the river that has been all but inseparable from his life. At the river’s origin the shallow stream courses through the ranch where he was born. It […]
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Resistance (Amy)
Imagine that you go to bed one night and sleep late the next morning. Your country is embroiled in World War II and the rumors that German troops are drawing near are growing stronger every day.
Imagine that you wake up and your husband and all the other men of the village have disappeared without a […]
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Resistance (Caribousmom)
He no longer thought as a soldier because he had been a soldier. He had seen too much. And now he had to choose again. Which of these men would he take? To which of them would he grant an alternative future? What that future was, he couldn’t say. -From Resistance, page 24
What if the […]
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