I really liked this story, the STORY, not the writing style. Like Plantation, the author gets stuck on one word and uses it obsessively… let me quote from the book (page 18): ‘Eah. Great Gullah word, versatile like anything. It means here, yes, right now, do you hear me, isn’t it so, don’t you agree [...]
I liked this book more than I thought I would, but it wasn’t what I was expecting. I wasn’t really expecting a southern-set fiction book, for some reason I thought it would be one of those heavy literary type books. Boy, was I in for a good surprise! Very well written, a story about a [...]
I miss the “solving it together” of the women’s club. This one, like the last one, was more focused on Lindsay. Good story, but I will admit, I had figured out the “whodunnit” pretty early on, although I didn’t figure out the court case thing until the very end ====FROM THE PUBLISHERA young mother is [...]
This is one of the better Grisham novels I’ve read. The “legal” thriller part is very small, the characters are well developed and it’s not a book you’ll read and forget about overnight (although they aren’t the most memorable – I think A Painted House is one of Grisham’s most memorable novels actually). Anyway, it [...]
This was just “okay”. It seemed to lack something although I can’t really say what it was that was missing. Just not as zippy or something. I was more interested in what was happening in Alex’s personal life than what was happening with the case he was working. It just seemed so overdone… this person [...]
At first, it seemed like this book was the same 10 letters written over and over again… I was kind of getting discouraged, until I realized that Michael Moore is giving these people a gift. A gift to share their words in a way no one else has. What struck me is that Moore says [...]
I just finished this book. It is one of those books that you read slowly. The characters are developed amazingly well. By the time you put the book down you feel as though you’ve lived the life of Dr. Larch and Homer Wells. You know them as intimately as you know the back of your [...]
A fun, quick read… this one centers around mothers and daughters and that loving (and explosive!) relationship. Well written, quick read – I read the whole thing in a day. One thing though… Surely someone will wash these pants soon, right? Ewwww… ====FROM THE PUBLISHERWith a bit of last summers sand in the pockets, the [...]
What a fun book! I’m a Koontz fan, but I was expecting this. Yes, it’s still slightly creepy, but more than that, it’s funny – and a much needed break from reality during this crazy time of the year for us accounting nerds. Great, quick read that keeps you wanting to turn the pages. I [...]
First, I’ve seen the movie so this may be a biased review. My biggest problem with the movie is that it took so many liberties with what happened onboard the Andrea Gail, things that no one has any way of knowing. I always felt cheated and that it was “dramatized” for our entertainment, kind of [...]
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