Two stars = eh, it
was okay
Three stars
= liked it
Four stars =
really, really liked it
Five stars =
absolutely loved it
1-Star (0)
2-Star (1)
***The River (Fiction, P. Heller)
This book had so much potential.
Two college friends take a canoeing trip in Canada, and along the way
they find themselves dodging forest fires and crazy people. This book reminded me a lot of the movie The
River Wild. Only it was SO BORING. Up until the last 20 pages or so. The descriptions of the forest, the water,
the fishing, the equipment used (which was noted by brand name even), just went
on and on and on. The last 20 pages were
completely amazing and it’s just a shame that the whole book couldn’t have been
that way. Peter Heller has the writing
chops, he just didn’t use them in the first 90% of this book.
3-Star (4)
***The German Girl (Fiction, L. Correa)
I would have liked this book more if it didn’t feel like a YA. And don’t get me wrong, I love a good YA
book, but this one was not YA….yet it felt like it. I hope that makes sense though. But it gets all 3 stars for mentioning JWs
multiple times and the suffering they endured during WWII along with the Jews.
***A Beautiful
Mystery (Fiction, L. Penny)
This one was a
little slow for me, but still a good read.
***A Faithful Place
(Fiction, T. French)
Another good
one. It seemed to drag in certain
places, but I still totally enjoyed it.
***Spineless (Non-Fiction,
J. Berwald)
Too much
memoir. I learned a lot about these
amazing creatures, but I found the authors memoir portions of this book ruined
the flow of this book.
4-Star (2)
****A Trick of the
Light (Fiction, L. Penny)
I love these books,
even the mediocre ones. I love Inspector
Gamache and his deadpan humor (which really comes through on the
audiobooks). I want to live in Three
Pines! Actually…I don’t. Lots of bad things happen there.
****Outer Order
Inner Calm (Non-Fiction, G. Rubin)
I am a fan of
Gretchen Rubin and her books. While this
one was sparse on content (it more like each page had it’s own ‘tip’), it was
still really good. She really focused on
how if things at work and home are orderly, you will feel calm on the
inside. She also stressed that there is
no right way to declutter and organize…you do what works for you. A quick read.
5-Star (0)
Total Books Read: 7 (5 fiction, 2 non-fiction)
DNF (Did Not
Finish) :
The
Terror (not good)
Crazy
Rich Asians (a younger friend of mine – 16 – told me I “must” read this book….I
tried, I really did, but it’s just nonsense.
I think I gave it 30 pages.)
Renegades
(I had high hopes for this one because Marissa Meyer wrote the Lunar Chronicles
series I loved so much last year…but I couldn’t get into this one)
Killers
of the Flower Moon (I made it more than halfway but I found it incredibly
boring)
