I’m not a detective, nor do I play one on tv. But I do enjoy a good game of cat-and-mouse, as long as I’m a spectator and not playing the role of either cat or mouse. Sometimes, I’ve been known to figure out the “whodunit?” before the big reveal. In The Racketeer, John Grisham returns… Continue reading Book Review: The Racketeer
Category: It’s storytime!
Book Review: The Circle Maker
Aaahhh. The good ol’ summertime. That blessed time of year when I can do stuff like…nothing. Well, not really nothing because that’s not how I roll. But for me, sitting on a couch, or even in a chair, for more than the length of a 30-minute piano lesson counts as “doing nothing.” Even if I… Continue reading Book Review: The Circle Maker
Book Review: The Deep End of the Ocean
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. No, no, I’m not referring to the premise of this book. I’m referring to the nightmare of losing yourself in a book like this, finding yourself swallowed up by the intrigue and heartbreak to the point where you can hardly put the book down and as a result end up… Continue reading Book Review: The Deep End of the Ocean
Book Review: Joy School
No more homework, No more books, No more teacher’s dirty looks! So begins the rhyme of summertime. Lazy days with nothing to do. No school projects. No schoolwork. No school activities. Time to read what *I* want. Time to do the things *I* want to do. And I choose to read a book with the… Continue reading Book Review: Joy School
Book Review: The Almond Picker
Sometimes I read a book because it looks interesting. Sometimes I read a book because it’s by a favorite author. Sometimes I read a book because the title intrigues me. And sometimes I read a book because I want to seem fancy and intellectual. That’s why I read this book. The cover is based of… Continue reading Book Review: The Almond Picker
“Think Pink” Week: Day 1
The boys are gone. For the next 7 days, the Speer household is devoid of any hint of testosterone. No stinky boys making dirty laundry. No sweaty, muddy shoes lining the stairway or littering the living room. No need to tolerate endless discussions of Poke’mon strategy, Bionicle creations, or Star Wars: The Clone Wars developments. … Continue reading “Think Pink” Week: Day 1
Book Review: The Architect
And now for something completely different… We’ve gone from the sublime to the ridiculous…or from flowery prose to gritty suspense…from artistic beauty to a psychological thriller. Or something like that. But, seriously, it’s about an architect for crying out loud. How could I not read it?? To be completely honest, I checked this book out… Continue reading Book Review: The Architect
Book Review: All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost
Ahh…the good old summertime. I look forward to summer for so many reasons, but one of them is that I get the excuse of carving out time to actually *read*. Like, as in GROWN-UP books. Books with chapters and multi-syllabic words. Books with hundreds of pages and small type. Books with at least 3 letters… Continue reading Book Review: All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost
Book Review: Tree of Heaven
I was excited to read this book. The jacket flap kind of scared me a bit, thinking it might be harsh and gritty, but I found the opposite to be true. The story is set in 1938, during World War II, during the Japanese occupation of China. Our protagonists are a Japanese officer sent to… Continue reading Book Review: Tree of Heaven
Book Review: The Train To Estelline
Well, I finally made it out of the church library! No, seriously, I have enjoyed the last two books I’ve read from there, but now I’ve got a whole huge stack of books from the public library sitting by my bed. And somehow I’ve got to read at least a few of those as well.… Continue reading Book Review: The Train To Estelline