As you know, I don’t have a lot of room for books. I have a box in the “basement” (a storage bay beneath the RV), and six small cabinets in which I store all of my books. As a result, about seventy of the books in my TBR list are ebooks, which I have in […]
March 2008: Book Reviews
#14: Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington, by Mary Higgins Clark I didn’t enjoy this one as much as I thought I would. First, the story is told in flashbacks– one chapter or scene in the “present” as John Adams is inaugurated as president, followed by a chapter set in […]
February 2008: Book Reviews
#8: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, by Jonathan Safran Foer I read Foer’s Everything’s Illuminated last year and wasn’t a big fan. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was a much better listen. I know this is a post-modernist book in its presentation, but since I listened to it as an audiobook, the story […]
January 2008: Book Reviews
#1: Eleven on Top (A Stephanie Plum Novel), by Janet Evanovich Another Stephanie Plum mystery novel. This time, Stephanie quits her job, but the job won’t quit her. #2: Boomsday, by Christopher Buckley A sardonic look at the Social Security system. Buckley is a political satirist, so the story comes off as over-the-top sometimes. There’s […]
December 2007: Book Reviews
This is an archive of my shorter book reviews and notes, which historically have been posted over at the 50 Book Challenge on LiveJournal, but which I’m starting to move over here. I’m posting them with altered date-stamps, but they might show up in my LiveJournal cross-post anyway. Bear with me, please. Note: Many of […]