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Book Review: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Chris often liked to be alone, not in the sense of being a “loner” and all that that term conjures, but in that, Chris didn’t mind being alone and often was, finding ways to entertain himself.
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Book Review: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Lush and dream-like, Bless Me, Ultima takes us to New Mexico in the 1940s where six-year-old Antonio Marez tests the bonds that tie him to his people and to his past. When a famous curandra, a healer, moves in with Tony’s family, he becomes emmersed in a world of the old ways, the pagan ways. For a…
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Book Review: Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
I have not read a lot of literature involving Native Americans and culture, but I did find Love Medicine and decided to read it. Published in 1984, Love Medicine tells the story of a group of Chippewa living on a reservation in North Dakota. Erdrich chronicles 60 years of the lives of these people. She opens her novel with…
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Book Review: Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris
In the last installment of the Sookie Stackhouse Series, Charlaine Harris wraps up her story of the sexy telepath from Bon Temps. Readers get a lot of their questions from Deadlocked answered while still creating new ones that will hopefully be explored in a later supplement to the series. Out of all the Sookie books, this one…
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Book Review: Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
This was a super quick read. I finished it in about two days, but there was a lot to the book. I absolutely enjoyed it. I didn’t feel terribly connected to the characters, but I did feel connected to the situations and tragedies that they all were going through. Sarah Nickerson has it all –…
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Book Review: A Woman in Berlin
This past week, I read A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in a Conquered City. It was hard to get through, not because of the writing which I loved considering the material, but just with how emotional the book was. The novel is the diary of a woman who recorded daily life during the Russian occupation…
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Sadie is Stranded by Madeleine Roux: Book Review
I was really excited for Madeleine Roux’s second book, Sadie Walker is Stranded. I thought it was going to be very similar to Allison Hewitt is Trapped which I had found to be funny, witty and fast-paced. Roux kept a lot coming at the reader in that book and that is probably because it was originally a daily…
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Club Dead: A Review of Charlaine Harris’ Third Book in Her True Blood Series
The following originally appeared in my book review column in February 2010: It is speculated that HBO’s True Blood creator, Alan Ball will follow some of what Harris created with Club Dead in the third season of True Blood that is set to begin airing this summer. This will be a great treat for many of the shows followers, especially those…
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Living Dead in Dallas: A Review of Charlaine Harris’ Second Book in Her True Blood Series
In the second installment of the Sookie Stackhouse books, Harris begins to round out her characters – both vampiric and just plain supernatural.
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Dead Until Dark: A Review of Charlaine Harris’ First Book in Her True Blood Series
Charlaine Harris introduces any of True Blood’s most admired characters in her first installment. Dead Until Dark, introduces Sookie Stackhouse, her sex-on-a-stick brother Jason, Vampire Bill, Eric Northman, Sam Merlotte, Detective Andy Bellefleur and many others. Harris begins Dead Until Dark, her story of the fictional town of Bon Temps much like HBO begins the series with vampires finally “coming out…
