A Land More Kind Than Home: A Novel
by Wiley Cash
A Land More Kind Than Home (3/18/2012)
I loved this book and it is one of the best I have read this year. It is literary and a page turning thriller at the same time. This powerful novel is about is about love, tragedy, betrayal, redemption and healing. I would recommend this book to my book group and to anyone who appreciates good books.
A Trick of the Light: Armand Gamache Series #7
by Louise Penny
Trick of the Light (7/12/2011)
Louise Penny's books just keep getting better and better. I have read all of her books and consider Trick of the Light to be her best. It has excellent writing and realistic character development of the recurring residents of Three Pines, a town so small it does not appear on any map. One has to wonder how so many murders could happen in such a small place. I would recommend this book to my book club and to anyone who enjoys a good book. Read it! You won't regret it.
Three Seconds
by Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom
If you enjoy a good thriller...... (12/3/2010)
I found Three Seconds to be a mix of reality and fiction. Some parts are difficult to believe could ever happen in real life. Given the authors combined backgrounds as parole officer, drug therapist and probation officer, they give us insight into the criminal world. It is a much darker world than I could ever have imagined. Hang on, there are lots of twists and turns especially in the last few pages. I would recommend Three Seconds to anyone who enjoys a good thriller.
The False Friend
by Myla Goldberg
The False Friend (8/1/2010)
I did not like this book as much as I had hoped. The pacing dragged and the characters were not interesting to me. However, it was interesting to consider whether traumatic childhood memories are accurate and how events when we were children affect us as adults. And why, as adults, do we revert to childlike behavior when returning home to parents? I would not recommend this book to my book club but would to friends that I thought would like to give it a try.
