Book Reviews from Investiagate a Good Book participants
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George: First of a mystery series--exciting--I'm hooked.
Daddy's Girl by Lisa Scottoline: Excellent! I love this author! Also love the reader (Barb Rosenblat). Great Story! Keeps moving.
Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier: An outstanding novel. Chevalier portrays the lives of France's working class in a tale that entwines fact and fiction.
Homeport by Nora Roberts: Once you pick it up you can't put it down. You don't know what is true until the end.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling: Great Quidditch sequences. Fast read. Great "no thought required" reading.
A Remembered Darkness by John Ratti: Although it is merely a collection of poems (and quite short, too), I found that they are to be savored (as many poems should be). His "Portraits" and "Places" were good, ironic, and downright frightening ("children among trees" being among my favorites). But his 'love poems' section fell flat. There was no love, simply a cheap kind of lust that was more bitter and macabre than I enjoy for "love".
Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe: When I first think of Poe, I think of a dark sort of macabre (The Raven and the like). But, after having dived into his poetry, I decided (or rather, discovered) that Poe is a muddled dreamer, a die hard romantic who seemed to have a sensitive soul. Reading these practically unknown poems has given me a good perspective on who he really was.
Echo Park by Micheal Connelly: This book is well written. Though you can tell whats next. This is a fun novel.
Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas: This is a wonderful book. The colorful characters are realistic, written from the eyes of a young pre-teen during WWII, experiencing the struggles of the depression era and the same prejudices that still exist today. It is warm, compassionate, humorous, sad, and a history lesson as a bonus. I'm embarrassed and ashamed to say that I didn't realize the US had treated US citizens this way.
Belladonna by Anne Bishop: Outstanding! Bishop weaves together an enchantment of dark tangled with light in order to find two people's heart's hope. A remarkable tale of fantasy interwoven with magic!
Breathe by Cliff McNish: A unique story which thins the veil between this world and the next. A delightfully eerie tale that mixes past with present.
Remember When by Nora Roberts and J. D. Robb: You can't put it down. You have greed, murder, theft, love--all in two parts. Two stories, one in 2003, the other in 2059 that are linked by one thing--Diamonds!
Carnal Innocence by Nora Roberts: A page turner! Keeps you on your toes until the very end!
Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts: A riveting story about a boy who came out of the ashes and became a man.
Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George: 2nd in a series--a bit far-fetched at times--I was able to figure the killer early on (most unusual for me).
We Shall Not Sleep by Anne Perry: Final book, one of six, pertaining to a mystery of betrayal during WWI. Very interesting. Shows much of the human waste and misery of this horrible war. I've read all of Anne Perry's books at this library.
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac: Kerouac is a zen lunatic in the time of the raving 1950's beatniks. The book starts well on his rides on the 'midnight ghost', but lagged after his mountain trip with Japhy (and another man). The ending was poetic, but I felt poorly timed. It should have ended much earlier. Overall, it was okay, but a bit preachy. I tend to think Kerouac is (or rather, was) a better poet than a rambling novelist. If you enjoy hearing about a myriad of Buddhist names (that you probably can't pronounce outloud) and what the main character "Ray" (a thinly veiled Kerouac) liked to eat for every single meal, then this is the perfect book for you. If not, you'll still like the smatterings of poetry here and there (mostly about his eating habits, however.)
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