Yes, the title should speak for itself. I’ve got so much other stuff I want to post on here, but because of my undiagnosed OCD, I feel like I can’t until I get all the book reviews posted. Well, I found a way around that!
I’ve also changed up the way I do book reviews again. I don’t have the energy any more to write up a summary. I’d much rather give you the basic information and let you check the book out on Amazon or Good Reads for yourself.
So…
The Princess Bride
- Author: by Morgenstern; abridged by William Goldman
- Series/Pages/Date Read: 512 pgs / 1-31-2014
- Brief Review: Movie was adapted from the book and consisted of all the “good parts,” unless you’re a diehard fan, skip the book.
- Recommend: Eh, preferred the movie
- Dear Abby
- Author: Abigail Van Buren
- Series/Pages/Date Read: 201 pgs / 2-28-2014
- Brief Review: Printed letters dating from the 1950s and 1960s, however, based on content, nothing seems to have changed.
- Recommend: Neutral.
- Relic
- Author: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- Series/Pages/Date Read: #1 of Pendergast Series / 455 pgs / 3-4-2014
- Brief Review: Hooked from the beginning! Couldn’t put it down! Caution-very gory!
- Recommend: Absolutely!
- Reliquary
- Author: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- Series/Pages/Date Read: #2 of Pendergast Series / 461 pgs / 3-9-2014
- Brief Review: Sequel to Relic. Who dunnit isn’t so much the question as how and why.
- Recommend: Yes.
- The Cabinet of Curiosities
- Author: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- Series/Pages/Date Read: #3 of Pendergast series / 629 pgs / 3-16-2014
- Brief Review: Hard to get into. Very disturbing.
- Recommend: Can be skipped.
- Still Life with Crows
- Author: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- Series/Pages/Date Read: #4 of the Pendergast series / 458 pgs / 4-7-2014
- Brief Review: Very interesting, but got extremely creepy towards the end.
- Recommend: Yes.
- The Sword in the Stone
- Author: T.H. White
- Series/Pages/Date Read: #1 in trilogy / 287 pgs / 5-1-2014
- Brief Review: King Arthur’s childhood and schooling by Merlin. Had to compare to Disney movie by the same name.
- Recommend: Interesting for an Arthurian scholar.
- Brimstone
- Author: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- Series/Pages/Date Read: #5 in the Pendergast series / 752 pgs / 5-11-2014
- Brief Review: Loved it! Fire & Brimstone, the devil, Stradivarius violins!
- Recommend: Absolutely!
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Series/Pages/Date Read: #4 in the Sherlock Holmes Casebook / 240 pgs / 5-11-2014
- Brief Review: Starting to have a difficult time reconciling literary Holmes, who will look into a case no matter how trivial, with movie and TV Holmes, who learn towards arrogant @$$es.
- Recommend: Yes.
- Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
- Author: Julie Powell
- Series/Pages/Date Read: 325 pgs / 5-16-2014
- Brief Review: Disappointed. Thought it would be the blog in book form. NOPE! Just the highlights.
- Recommend: Neutral.
- My Life in France
- Author: Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme
- Series/Pages/Date Read: 333 pgs / 5-25-2014
- Brief Review: Interesting and insightful.
- Recommend: Neutral, but I liked it better than Julie Powell’s book.
- Stitch’n’Bitch: the Knitter’s Handbook
- Author: Debbie Stoller
- Series/Pages/Date Read: 237 pgs / 6-10-2014
- Brief Review: Very interesting. Loved the family history. Going to try out some of the patterns in the back of the book.
- Recommend: Yes.
- A Good Yarn
- Author: Debbie Macomber
- Series/Pages/Date Read: 384 pgs / 6-13-2014
- Brief Review: Shows the positive side and the relaxation aspects of knitting.
- Recommend: Yes.
- Dixie Ghosts: Haunting, spine-chilling stories from the American South
- Author: edited by Frank D. McSherry, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenburg
- Series/Pages/Date Read: 6-18-2014
- Brief Review: An anthology of stories. I didn’t read them all. The couple I did read were suspenseful, not spine-chilling.
- Recommend: Neutral.
- Sisters, School Girls and Sleuths: Girls’ Series Books in America
- Author: Carolyn Carpan
- Series/Pages/Date Read: 147 pgs / 6-24-2014
- Brief Review: Great source for a research paper.
- Recommend: Yes.
- My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop
- Author: edited by Ronald Rice and Booksellers Across America
- Series/Pages/Date Read:
- Brief Review: Couldn’t get into it.
- Recommend:
- The Book is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All!
- Author: Marilyn Johnson
- Series/Pages/Date Read:
- Brief Review: Couldn’t get into it.
- Recommend:
- The Book of the Dead
- Author: Douglas Pendergast and Lincoln Child
- Series/Pages/Date Read: #6 of the Pendergast series / 451 pgs / 6-27-2014
- Brief Review: Couldn’t put it down!
- Recommend: Absolutely!
- Year of No Sugar
- Author: Eve O. Schaub
- Series/Pages/Date Read: 305 pgs / 7-13-2014
- Brief Review: A writer conducts an experiment on/with her family to see if they can go without eating any added sugar for an entire year. Very interesting. Recipes are included.
- Recommend: Yes.
I apologize for the numbering. I tried to fix it, but it made everything worse.