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Reviews by Ann O. (Kansas City, MO)

Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
by Kelly Corrigan

A Heartfelt Memoir (2/4/2014)

I loved Glitter and Glue. Reading it made me feel as if I were talking to my best friend who was telling me her story about the five months when she launched herself far from home into a country – and family -- she didn't know. It is an honest and heartfelt memoir about her …more

Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
by Kelly Corrigan

A Hearfelt Memoir (1/20/2014)

I loved Glitter and Glue. Reading it made me feel as if I were talking to my best friend who was telling me her story about the five months when she launched herself far from home into a country – and family -- she didn’t know. It is an honest and heartfelt memoir about her …more

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir
by Anna Quindlen

A Delicious Memoir (4/24/2012)

I loved Anna Quindlen’s latest book. From the first paragraph “First I was who I was. Then I didn’t know who I was. Then I invented someone and became her. Then I began to like what I’d invented. And finally I was what I was again.” I thought she was talking about me and as …more

Until the Next Time: A Novel
by Kevin Fox

Not one of my favorites about "time travel"! (2/22/2012)

I really wanted to love this book and requested it because a review said it was in the same category as Time and Again and The Time Traveler's Wife, two books I loved and read more than once. How mistaken that reviewer was! It was nothing like those two classics. Keeping …more

The Leftovers: A Novel
by Tom Perrotta

An Extraordinary Story (7/9/2011)

All it took for me to fall in love with Tom Perrotta’s “The Leftovers” were these first two lines: “Laurie Garvey hadn’t been raised to believe in the Rapture. She hadn’t been raised to believe in much of anything, except the foolishness of belief itself.” Perrotta creates …more

Ten Thousand Saints: A Novel
by Eleanor Henderson

Ten Thousand Saints Disappoints (5/5/2011)

I began reading Ten Thousand Saints with great hope. The opening two sentences -- "Is it dreamed?" Jude asked Teddy. "Or dreamt?" Beneath the stadium seats of the football field, on the last morning of 1987 and the last morning of Teddy's life, the two boys lay side by side, …more

Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
by Lisa Napoli

The Happiest Place on Earth (2/12/2011)

After reading “Radio Shangri-La” by Lisa Napoli, one thing I can say is “I wish I could visit Bhutan!” But sadly I’m afraid that as Bhutan opens up to the world, it will cease to be the same unspoiled country that Napoli discovered.

As I read about Napoli’s adventures, I …more

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