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Non-Fiction Reviews: (View All)
- Wait Till Next Year
- Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- User Rating: 4
- Review: TCL Call Number: BIO Goodwin D
Diana's rating: 4 stars
Pulitzer-winning historian Goodwin tells the story of her own
childhood, in 1950s Long Island, which at the time was a melting
pot of the five boroughs of New York City. Battle lines were drawn
each baseball season, pitting neighbor vs. neighbor according to one's home borough's baseball team loyalty -- the Kearns were Dodgers fans, especially father and daughter. Her tale is a poignant one, as her mother suffered a long illness, and the Dodgers weren't always victorious, hence the title. 
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- Author: Cheryl Strayed
- User Rating: 3
- Review: TCL call#: BIO STRAYED C
Marisa's rating: 3 stars
For anyone who enjoys hiking or backpacking! the author provides beautiful descriptions of the Pacific Crest Trail while also conquering some emotions troubles along the way. Extremely quick read!
Madeleine's rating - 2 stars
I wanted to like this, I did. Only I can't. I suspected trouble when I saw the Oprah Selection sticker on the cover and the rule still holds. Oprah = victim story = growth. Sigh.
Strayed is that Oprah victim. No one ever lost a mother like she lost a mother. She feels that greif so very much and acts out, destroying her marriage, becoming a heroin user, sucking everyone around her dry. Apparently all the while thinking she can be the strong one to hold the family together.
So she escapes to the trail - a plan of attack I myself have been known to employ (this is horrible, I shall jump somewhere else and do over). Only she carries this walking wounded mentality with her. Her adventures on the trail have an almost willful ignorance about them - if you feel threatened by men you don't settle in for the night where they know you are, you freaking move! Every woman knows that intrinsically in their spines. She ends her book discussing the great generosity she experienced on the trail and all I could think was how people must have seen her willful vulnerability and felt obligated to assist her. I wanted to find humor and strength in her story but only found myself annoyed and exhausted – the feeling I get whenever I am around the walking wounded. Whew. -
Fiction Reviews:(View All)
- Cutting for Stone
- Author: Abraham Verghese
- User Rating: 5
- Review: TCL Call Number: F Verghese
Diana's rating: 5 stars
After reading and loving this book I felt like I did after I read "Memoirs of a Geisha." It wasn't a setting (Ethiopian hospital) or character (lifelong medical students) I would seek out, but oh, the rewards! Verghese writes some of the most vivid characters you are likely to find, against the backdrop of a historical setting many Americans are unfamiliar with. The medical jargon was clear enough for me to understand, and while many things are tied together at the end, it is not in too neat a package. -
- The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1)
- Author: Daniel O'Malley
- User Rating: 5
- Review: TCL Call number: SF O”MALLEY D
Stephanie’s rating: 5 stars
As of lately I have found myself reading books based in the UK. This is not on purpose. I just find the stories interesting…and also the covers. So when I first discovered this book and read the cover flap I said to myself, “this sounds awesome!” I flipped the book over, read the reviews and loved how everyone described it as a hilarious and ingenious story. One reviewer toted that it was “part Bourne Identity, part X-Men,…with a hefty dose of Monty Python.” Chirpy enough? Well maybe the fact that the book has a trailer online will motivate you to check it out OR that Myfawny Thomas wakes up in the middle of a park where several bodies are laying dead AND on top of that she has no recollection of who she is; soon thereafter she finds out that she works for a top secret British agency. EXCITING!!! I’m very glad I stumbled upon this book :) It’s quite amusing. I’ve discovered that while reading “The Rook” I read in a British accent too! It just happened. I don’t even know how. It could be YOU next! -
