Excellent read *****
Linda Lutz's The Spellman File ~ laughed out loud in a restaurant during the height of the dinner hour [I'm single, OK, I eat alone all the time. Back off]
Very Entertaining ****
john green and david levithan's will grayson, will grayson ~ i have found my soulmate in character of tiny cooper. such a well developed story written separately by two writers then woven together.
another great, entertaining find *****
Steven Saylor's Roma: The novel of Ancient Rome. Rachel Fairbanks, a lady I work with, purchased this for me from as a gift from my co-workers. Her decision was based on the book being about Rome and that it was listed on the NYT Bestseller list. What a great gift. What a fantastic read*****
Bing West's, The Pepper-Dogs. My sister highly recommended this one. She said she could not put it down. I thought that was an overstatement until I found myself parked next to the AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park reading the last two chapters because I could not drive the remaining 10 minutes of my 45 minute commute home without finding out what the hell happened. The ending pissed me off. That fact in and of itself does not mean I didn't like the book. Sometimes I like things that piss me off. Hell, I was married to Shirley for 5 years.... ****
Lee Vance's The Garden of Betrayal. I really liked this read. Good mystery and the words flowed nicely across the page. ****
Laura Wilson's An Empty Death. I just couldn't get into it. She spent too much time laying the ground work for what I suppose was going to be a mystery in a mystery. And, the setting was not one I was interested in reading about. London getting bombed. Just lost interest. **
Just Picked up from the Glenn Park Branch....
Steven Saylor's Roma: The novel of Ancient Rome. Rachel Fairbanks, a lady I work with, purchased this for me from as a gift from my co-workers. Her decision was based on the book being about Rome and that it was listed on the NYT Bestseller list. What a great gift. What a fantastic read*****
Bing West's, The Pepper-Dogs. My sister highly recommended this one. She said she could not put it down. I thought that was an overstatement until I found myself parked next to the AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park reading the last two chapters because I could not drive the remaining 10 minutes of my 45 minute commute home without finding out what the hell happened. The ending pissed me off. That fact in and of itself does not mean I didn't like the book. Sometimes I like things that piss me off. Hell, I was married to Shirley for 5 years.... ****
Lee Vance's The Garden of Betrayal. I really liked this read. Good mystery and the words flowed nicely across the page. ****
Laura Wilson's An Empty Death. I just couldn't get into it. She spent too much time laying the ground work for what I suppose was going to be a mystery in a mystery. And, the setting was not one I was interested in reading about. London getting bombed. Just lost interest. **
Just Picked up from the Glenn Park Branch....
I also just read "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" per a recommendation. I totally fell in love with Tiny Cooper. He was definitely the guy I wanted in HS....and probably still do!
ReplyDeleteTiny Rocks. I can only hope to be have the man at 52 that he is at 17. What a wonderfully written character. And the book itself... such a great concept.
ReplyDeleteindeed. Much of it worked for me, connecting both my HS past and my college past (i went to college in the town where Tiny lives) and so it all made a lot of sense to me.
ReplyDeletebut yup, Tiny Cooper and I would make some great babies.