The Chelsea Girls

Title: The Chelsea Girls

Author: Fiona Davis
Publisher: Ballantine
ISBN: n/a

Thoughts:  Davis is an amazing historical fiction writer, but this is missing the juxtaposition between past and closer present that is in her other novels.

Rating: 4/5

Motherland

Title: Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing

Author: Elissa Altman
Publisher: Ballantine
ISBN: 9780399181580

Thoughts:  No-holds-barred memoir about learning to love a difficult mother.

Rating: 3/5

How It Feels to Float

Title: How It Feels to Float

Author: Helena Fox
Publisher: Dial
ISBN: 9780525554295

Thoughts:  Very poetic novel about an Australian teen coping (or not) with mental illness.

Rating: 3/5

Friendship

Title: Friendship: The Evolution, Biology and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond

Author: Lydia Denworth
Publisher: W.W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393651546

Thoughts:  Very dry almost-medical text about the biology and science behind friendship.

Rating: 1/5

Inland

Title: Inland

Author: Tea Obreht
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9780812992861

Thoughts:  Highly captivating Western with ghosts and a camel.

Rating: 4/5

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

Title: Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

Author: Sonali Dev
Publisher: William Morrow
ISBN: n/a

Thoughts:  Pleasant rom-com chick-lit, but just way too long for the genre.

Rating: 3/5

Siren's Kiss

Title: Siren's Kiss

Author: Margo Bond Collins
Publisher: Bathory Gate
ISBN: n/a

Thoughts:  I know this was a prequel to a series and had so much potential, but it was just all very confusing and I could not feel for either character.

Rating: 1/5