Wow! There's just no keeping up with Buffy and Jeremy! You put us all to shame.
I've a few to add to my list. Just short reviews this time. Will have to look at that Animal, Vegetable, Miracle book next!!
Nick Hornby
'A Long Way'
331 pages
My favourite so far of Hornby's. He's hilarious and excellent. This one looks at four totally diverse characters wrestling with suicide. Happens to be very funny, in spite of subject matter.
Cormac McCarthy
'The Road'
285 pages
Akin to Atwoods' "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Oryx and Crake." I feel like I have written this before, so maybe I've already counted this but don't want to go thru the archives to double check. If so, I've stolen 285 extra pages in my page count--sorry!
Mary Higgins Clark
'I Heard That Song Before'
384 pages
Horrendous soap opera. Am amazed I made it to the end, but I was slightly interested in how the plot turned out. Could have read the last chapter and discovered it all.
John Grisham
'The Appeal'
358 pages
Grisham is my literary cotton candy. He's returned to the topic of the legal system. Quite cynical. Good fluff read.
Jodi Picoult
'Plain Truth'
405 pages
I've read Picoult before. She writes about interesting, controversial subject matter, has well filled out, fully living and breathing characters, beautiful settings, and irritating plot manipulations. This woman's middle name should be Deux ex Machina. And her last name should be No Thread Left Hanging. She wraps up too many loose ends at the end of her story.
Nevertheless, I liked this book. I just ignored the last 3 to 4 pages in my imagination, after I'd read them. It's about an amish teenager who gets pregnant. I am fascinated by amish life, and I think Picoult presented a pretty fair representation.
Jodi Picoult
'The Pact'
389 pages
Funny that I find her plot twists so irritating but I read two of her books in the course of four days this week. Her subject matter is so interesting! And characters worth investing in. This book had SOME irritating plot twists but not a total Deux ex Machina ending, and left some (almost too deliberate) loose ends at the end of the book. This one was about two teenagers who made a suicide pact, but one of the two survived.
total page count this time:
2152
For overall total of:
4580
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Interesting comment from the pop culture geek that I just found out yesterday: Jodi Picoult is now the new main writer for Wonder Woman comics. So her talent for social commentary and irritating plot twists should fit right in. She said she couldn't get WW out of that unfortunate breastplate, though.
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