Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

Title: Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

Author: Kathleen West
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780593098400

Thoughts:  A fun take on helicopter parenting, social media, and high school theatre.

Rating: 4/5

When Time Stopped

Title: When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

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Thoughts:  A daughter's engaging look at her search for the unspoken past of her father, a Czech holocaust survivor.

Rating: 3/5

Lost Lake

Title: Lost Lake

Author: Sarah Addison Allen
Publisher: St Martin's
ISBN: 9781250019806

Thoughts:  Highly engaging and warm novel, but it took a tad long for the magic to start.

Rating: 4/5

Snow Over Utopia

Title: Snow Over Utopia

Author: Rudolfo A. Serna
Publisher: Amazon
ISBN: n/a

Thoughts:  I could never really figure out what was going on, but some of it was rather distasteful.

Rating: 1/5

Ghost

Title: Ghost

Author: Jason Reynolds
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9781508230496

Thoughts:  Fun MG read with realistic characters.

Rating: 4/5

Imaginary Friend

Title: Imaginary Friend

Author: Stephen Chobosky
Publisher: Hachette
ISBN: n/a

Thoughts:  I never would have expected that the author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower could write horror that fits with the likes of Stephen King and Joe Hill.

Rating: 5/5

Stories of Your Life and Others

Title: Stories of Your Life and Others

Author: Ted Chiang
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9781101972120

Thoughts:  Wonderful collection of short stories that are amazingly vast.

Rating: 5/5