I’m trying to take a bit of a break from reading books that interest me in order to get up to speed on some of the books my students enjoy. I thought the first book in the Uglies series would be a great place to start, since I’d recently had one of my summer school [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Book Reviews’
September 1, 2009
Book Review: The Almost Moon
I’ve been wanting to read Alice Sebold’s The Almost Moon for quite a while now, but just finally got around to it. I read both Lucky and The Lovely Bones a few years ago when I was in college and really loved them both, so I had been eager to read Sebold’s latest endeavor. Plus, [...]
August 26, 2009
Book Review: The School of Essential Ingredients
Erica Bauermeister’s The School of Essential Ingredients is another title I found on an NPR list, and fortunately for me I was not disappointed this time around. This review will probably be short, sweet, and to the point, because while I found Bauermeister’s novel to be charming a read, and a great effort at [...]
August 14, 2009
Book Review: A Reliable Wife
Whenever I run out of things to read, I like to turn to NPR for recommendations. I came across this list of recommended summer reading a few weeks ago and found several books that piqued my interest. The first one I read was Robert Goolrick’s A Reliable Wife. What caught my attention in the NPR [...]
August 9, 2009
Book Review: The Silver Linings Playbook
I am so thrilled to have discovered Matthew Quick’s The Silver Linings Playbook. It is a gem of a novel and I truly wish I could force everyone to read it! While I know that is not humanly possible, I am going to try my hardest to convince you through my review that this [...]
August 4, 2009
Book Review: Somebody Else’s Daughter
After devouring Elizabeth Brundage’s The Doctor’s Wife and loving every minute of it, I was quite eager to get my hands on her second novel, Somebody Else’s Daughter. I secured a copy from the library, read it, and can now say I have never been so disappointed! For me, this book had a lot of [...]
July 21, 2009
Book Review: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
It’s fitting that after I recently posted my thoughts on what our kids are reading these days I should discover E. Lockhart’s The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. I decided to read this young adult novel after reading a list of Summer’s Best Books on NPR’s website. What I loved about this novel is the same [...]
July 11, 2009
Book Review: The Doctor’s Wife
I picked up Elizabeth Brundage’s The Doctor’s Wife from the Clearance shelf at Half Price Books last week, thinking it sounded interesting and I would only be out $1.00 if it was not. Interesting it indeed was! I found that Brundage’s debut novel was truly a page-turner that I could not put down. I have [...]
July 3, 2009
Book Review: Trespassing
I think this is the first “adult” book I’ve been able to review here at mere musings. That’s what happens when I actually get a week off from teaching and finally get a library card! Yay!
While I am shouting a big “Yay!” let me go ahead and give another one for Uzma Aslam Khan’s [...]
June 24, 2009
Book Review: Persepolis
So I think I am going to label myself a lover of novels about the modern Middle East. That’s actually a ridiculous claim for me to make, considering I have only read three novels by modern Middle-Eastern authors, but I have really loved each one, so I’ll go ahead and take the label! I [...]
