3.75 out of 4 stars. We should all wish to meet someone like Olive, at least for the sarcasm! Crosby, Maine is just a little dot on the map. If one…
literary fiction
“Sing, Unburied, Sing” by Jesmyn Ward
3.75 out of 4 stars. I still feel shaken. That is how powerfully strong this book is. I believe it is a sign that I am reading this book, “Sing, Unburied,…
“Before Everything” by Victoria Redel
3.5 out of 4 stars. A group of friends deal with death. Anna has always been a star able to create a gravitational pull with whomever she meets. She is…
“a piece of the world” by Christina Baker Kline
3.75 out of 4 stars. “A perspective into what the Andrew Wyeth painting, Christina’s World was all about” Christina Olson lived on the farm in Cushing, Maine that has been…
“The Leavers” by Lisa Ko
3.75 out of 4 stars “I didn’t forget about you, I was surviving” Deming Guo and Daniel Wilkinson are the same person. We are first introduced to Deming by him…
“Losing the Light” – Andrea Dunlop
4 out of 4 stars. C’est très interessant! Brooke Thompson has an affair with her older college professor in Andrea Dunlop’s “Losing the Light”. Once the teacher’s wife finds out…
“The Children” – Ann Leary
3.3 out of 4 stars. A run of the mill revenge plot. C’mon people I am getting too good for these “mysterious” story lines! Twenty nine-year old Charlotte Maynard is…
“A Spool of Blue Thread” – Anne Tyler
“snoozefest” 3.2 out of 4 stars. This is the longest piece of thread ever to be spooled. It just keeps going on and on and it is representative of this…
“The After Party” – Anton Disclafani
3.7 out of 4 stars. Marvelous darling! A Texan version of Gossip Girl years before its time. Anton Disclafani’s “The After Party” is full of secrets, scandal, and feelings of…
“The Opposite of Everyone” – Joshilyn Jackson
3.7 out of 4 stars. “I was born blue.” I picked this book up blindly at the library. Meaning I hadn’t heard much about it (most likely since it is…