Reading Challenged

Monday, July 6, 2020

Title: White Elephant

Author: Trish Harnetiaux
Publisher: Simon Schuster
ISBN: 9781501199905

Thoughts: Very unique, but also predictable, whodunit.

Rating: 3/5

Title: House Lessons: Renovating a Life

Author: Erica Bauermeister
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: n/a

Thoughts: Story didn't really seem "memoir-worthy", but had a lot of interesting tidbits about architecture.

Rating: 3/5

Library Summer Reading Program Prize:

The Rook by Daniel O'Malley

LibraryThing Early Review:

Ruins of Sapphire by Justine Alley Dowsett

Title: The Book of Longings

Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: n/a

Thoughts: Very uneven story for me - parts were very enjoyable, but others just dragged.

Rating: 3/5

Title: Slumgirl Dreaming: Rubina's Journey to the Stars

Author: Rubina Ali, Anne Berthod, & Divya Dugar
Publisher: Delcorte
ISBN: 9780385739085

Thoughts: Fast-paced biography that helps kids experience what life is like in the Mumbai slums.

Rating: 3/5

Title: Life on Mars

Author: Tracy K. Smith
Publisher: Graywolf
ISBN: 9781555975845

Thoughts: Smith's poetry is so approachable yet deep that it is easy to see why she was a poet laureate.

Rating: 4/5

Title: American Dirt

Author: Jeanine Cummins
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781250260604

Thoughts: Very emotional novel, but just a tad too long.

Rating: 3/5