My 2012 Summer Reading List

For me, summer starts Memorial Day weekend and guess what? We are already there! Hard to believe, but it’s true. This summer, my list is all over the place. I never use these lists as a hard and fast rule for anything because I am easily influenced by Net Galley, Edelweiss, other book blogs and [...]

Review: The Lifeboat

The Lifeboat By Charlotte Rogan (Reagan Arthur Books, Hardcover, 9780316185905, April 2012, 288pp.) The Short of It: Strong start, weak finish. The Rest of It: After an explosion sinks the luxury liner she and her husband were on, Grace Winter finds herself floating across the Atlantic with thirty-eight other passengers in a lifeboat meant for [...]

Review: The Tiger

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival By John Vaillant (Vintage, Paperback, 9780307389046, May 2011, 352pp.) The Short of It: A true account of a tiger with a grudge. The Rest of It: In December of 1997, Yuri Trush, the head of a tiger preservation team is called to the Boreal Forest to [...]

The Sunday Salon: Lazy Me

Any Sunday that starts off with a hot cup of coffee and a stack of gluten-free pancakes can’t be bad, right? It was long week, made longer by a conference I had to attend for work. Plus we had all of our dental appointments this week which is never fun and joy of joys…I get [...]

Review: The Elephant Vanishes

The Elephant Vanishes (stories) By Haruki Murakami (Vintage, Paperback, 9780679750536, June 1994, 336pp.) The Short of It: Endlessly amusing. The Rest of It: I think this is the third short story collection that I’ve read by Murakami and it might be one of his tamest. These stories are a bit longer than the ones I’ve [...]

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