Category Archives: Books I’ve Read

Read: March 2012 Rating: Thumbs Down Review: I wanted to love this book. I was desperate to love this book. And it started out so good, I was almost sure I had a winner. It starts with a woman climbing … Continue reading →

Read: January 2012 Rating: Thumbs Down Review: This book has three main characters and I couldn’t really tell any of them apart. And I didn’t care what happened to any of them. And then the book ended.

Read: February 2012 Rating: Thumbs Up Review: This book is narrated by the family’s pet dog. If that doesn’t affect my objectivity, I don’t know what would. It pretty much would have had to have been about the ritualistic slaughter … Continue reading →

Read: February 2012 Rating: Thumbs Down Review: I only read book one of a three book series, so that will affect my review. Reasons I didn’t like it: 1) it’s a kids’ book, so it was too simple. Mindy said … Continue reading →

Read: February 2012 Rating: Thumbs Down Review: More crappy, nauseating, pointless, poorly written chick lit. No wonder everyone makes fun of this genre. Stuff that in real life would be a really big deal is downplayed, and stuff that isn’t … Continue reading →

Read: February 2012 Rating: Thumbs Down Review: Just a poorly written book. The worst kind of crap: foreshadowing things that never happen, scrambling at the end to create some kind of point to the whole mess, and no redeeming behavior … Continue reading →

Read: January 2012 Rating: Thumbs Up Review: This is chick lit, just FYI. Although I wasn’t satisfied with the ending to this book, I loved how it pulled me right in and was one of the quickest reads I’ve ever … Continue reading →

Read: January 2012 Rating: Thumbs Up Review: Ah, nonfiction. I’m not generally a fan because of one reason and one reason only: it’s always WAY too long. I would say about 90% of the nonfiction books I’ve read would have … Continue reading →

Read: January 2012 Rating: Thumbs Down Review: This book follows the love life of a girl from her early teens to her early thirties, through a series of sequential vignettes. At first I couldn’t tell they were all about the … Continue reading →

Read: January 2012 Rating: Thumbs Up Review: While Ann Patchett is not my favorite person (based on what I know about her), this book is amazing. I read it originally when it first came out in 2002 and remembered loving … Continue reading →