Title: Class Act
Author: Jerry Craft
Publisher: Quill Tree
ISBN: 9780062885517
Thoughts: Craft presents a variety of issues that face preteens in a very realistic manner that opens eyes and entertains.
Rating: 5/5
Thursday, October 29, 2020
A Dog-Friendly Town
Title: A Dog-Friendly Town
Author: Josephine Cameron
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374306441
Thoughts: Well-written and thought-out fun middle-grade mystery.
Rating: 4/5
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Becoming Jane Eyre
Title: Becoming Jane Eyre
Author: Sheila Kohler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: n/a
Thoughts: Interesting to learn more about Bronte and her sister through historical fiction, but very dry.
Rating: 2/5
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Mexican Gothic
Title: Mexican Gothic
Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780593213872
Thoughts: The horror aspects were great but the gothic elements were not at the level I expected them to be.
Rating: 4/5
Friday, October 23, 2020
The History of Love
Title: The History of Love
Author: Nicole Krauss
Publisher: Norton
ISBN: 9780393328622
Thoughts: An odd work of literary fiction, but it was amazing to see how it all fit together.
Rating: 3/5
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Peach Girl: Sae's Story 1
Title: Peach Girl: Sae's Story Vol 1
Author: Miwa Ueda
Publisher: Tokyopop
ISBN: 9781598165173
Thoughts: Spin-off of Peach Girl, but it is not necessary to read the original.
Rating: 3/5
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Auctioning Affection
Title: Auctioning Affection
Author: Allyson Lindt
Publisher: Acelette
ISBN: n/a
Thoughts: Quick romance that ends as excepted, but is fun getting there.
Rating: 3/5
Monday, October 19, 2020
Dory Fantasmagory
Title: Dory Fantasmagory
Author: Abby Hanlon
Publisher: Dial
ISBN: 9780803740884
Thoughts: Adorably funny book great for younger readers or families to read together.
Rating: 4/5
Yesterday
Title: Yesterday
Author: Fern Michaels
Publisher: Zebra
ISBN: 9780821767856
Thoughts: The present timeline of this was all over the place as were some plot points, but I can applaud Michaels for making me hate a character as much as she did.
Rating: 2/5
The Chestnut Man
Title: The Chestnut Man
Author: Soren Sveistrup
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781405939911
Thoughts: The first Nordic Noir that I have loved.
Rating:5/5
Saturday, October 17, 2020
Friday, October 16, 2020
You Exist Too Much
Title: You Exist Too Much
Author: Zaina Arafat
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 9781948226509
Thoughts: A tad artsy, even though I don't think it was meant to be that way.
Rating: 3/5
Monday, October 12, 2020
Black Boy
Title: Black Boy
Author: Richard Wright
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780061130243
Thoughts: A memoir that reads like fiction, this is a fascinating look at Jim Crow South and Depression-era Communism.
Rating: 5/5
Nine Stories
Title: Nine Stories
Author: J. D. Salinger
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316767729
Thoughts: Well-written, but too slice-of-life for my taste in short stories.
Rating: 3/5
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Title: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampire
Author: Grady Hendrix
Publisher: Blackstone
ISBN: n/a
Thoughts: A highly entertaining, campy horror novel.
Rating: 5/5
Saturday, October 3, 2020
Stacking the Shelves: 9/13-10/3
LibraryThing Early Review:
Zingers by John C. Kreig
Bought on Amazon:
The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink
The Boys King Arthur by Sidney Lanier
The Elenium by David Eddings
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