Started 5/25/08
Finished: 5/29/08
Year: 2008
Pages: 312
Genre: Chick Lit
Grade: B+
Reason for reading: review for MyShelf.com
Blurb (from back cover): "After a recent breakup sent her into a self-imposed "personal hiatus," thirty-something New York TV-promo producer Tori Miller is determined to get a life. The faster way? A Hamptons summer share house. She ditches her old look-thanks to a last-minute makeover on a reality show pilot-and over the next three months, the new-and-improved "Miller" becomes the wing woman to a glamorous new BFF, goes head-to-head with her house's prickily Resident Alpha Female, and is drawn into a web of secrets by a charming Brit. But soon she finds herself entangled in one too many complicated romantic situations-and the many Hamptons Unwritten Rules threaten to implode her new, carefully cultivated social standing. Now the fabulous life Tori has might not be the one she wants, and she must decide who she really is, what she wants, and what she's willing to give up to get there...all by Labor Day."
Opinion: For a debut novel, this is one of the better ones I've read. The one big thing that bothered me, only because I lived out there for 4 years, was the unrealistic timing to get to different places out in the Hamptons. For a more complete review, please check out MyShelf.com in the coming months.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell
Started: 5/15/08
Finished: 5/25/08
Year: 2004
Pages: 319
Genre: Fiction
Grade: B+
Reason for reading: fan of the author and grabbed it out of a TBR box
Blurb (nothing specified on book): A mother is facing the difficulties of having a bipolar daughter and fighting the system.
Opinion: Since I've been working with mentally ill children since I was about 17, I have seen the many ups and downs that parents have to go through in order to get help for their children. This book hits on several of them. Some, I think are taken to the extreme to prove a point. I hope that some politicians and hospital head honchos take a look at this book and see where they can make it easier to get help for families like this.
Finished: 5/25/08
Year: 2004
Pages: 319
Genre: Fiction
Grade: B+
Reason for reading: fan of the author and grabbed it out of a TBR box
Blurb (nothing specified on book): A mother is facing the difficulties of having a bipolar daughter and fighting the system.
Opinion: Since I've been working with mentally ill children since I was about 17, I have seen the many ups and downs that parents have to go through in order to get help for their children. This book hits on several of them. Some, I think are taken to the extreme to prove a point. I hope that some politicians and hospital head honchos take a look at this book and see where they can make it easier to get help for families like this.
Friday, May 16, 2008
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red Edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph. D.
Started: 5/11/08
Finished: 5/15/08
Pages: 252
Year: 2001
Genre: Horror
Grade: B-
Reason for reading: grabbed in out of a TBR box.
Blurb (from back cover): "At the turn of the twentieth century, Ellen Rimbauer, the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her anxieties about her new marriage, express her confusion over her emerging sexuality, and contemplate the nightmare that her life was becoming. The diary not only follows the development of a girl into womanhood, it follows the construction of the Rimbauer mansion-called Rose Red-an enormous home that would be the site of so many horrific and inexplicable tragedies in the years ahead.
"The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red is a rare document, one that gives us an unusual view of daily life among the aristocracy in the early 1900s, a window into one woman's hidden emotional torment, and a record of the mysterious events at Rose Red that scandalized society at the time. Edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph.D., as part of her research, the diary is being published as preparations are being made by Dr. Reardon to enter Rose Red and fully invesigate its disturbing history"
Opinion: This book wasn't too bad and I'm interested in now watching the mini-series that Stephen King had a role in developing.
Finished: 5/15/08
Pages: 252
Year: 2001
Genre: Horror
Grade: B-
Reason for reading: grabbed in out of a TBR box.
Blurb (from back cover): "At the turn of the twentieth century, Ellen Rimbauer, the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her anxieties about her new marriage, express her confusion over her emerging sexuality, and contemplate the nightmare that her life was becoming. The diary not only follows the development of a girl into womanhood, it follows the construction of the Rimbauer mansion-called Rose Red-an enormous home that would be the site of so many horrific and inexplicable tragedies in the years ahead.
"The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red is a rare document, one that gives us an unusual view of daily life among the aristocracy in the early 1900s, a window into one woman's hidden emotional torment, and a record of the mysterious events at Rose Red that scandalized society at the time. Edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph.D., as part of her research, the diary is being published as preparations are being made by Dr. Reardon to enter Rose Red and fully invesigate its disturbing history"
Opinion: This book wasn't too bad and I'm interested in now watching the mini-series that Stephen King had a role in developing.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Lying with Strangers by James Grippando
Started: 4/30/08
Finished: 5/11/08
Year: 2006
Genre: Mystery/Suspense
Grade: B
Reason for reading: grabbed out of a TBR box
Blurb (from book jacket): "Peyton Shield's nightmare begins one icy winter night when, as she is driving home from the hospital where she works as pediatric intern, she is run off the road. She suspects it was no accident, as she fears she's being stalked. But no one believes her, not ever her husband, Kevin Stokes. He thinks she's being paranoid-and the police think she's cracking under stress. After Kevin accuses her of having an affair with an ex-boyfriend, Peyton begins to wonder if her jealous husband might be the one who wants her dead...
"As Petyon quickly learns, the only person she can count on is herself. And without anyone to trust, she realizes she's in more danger than she could ever imagine."
Opinion: The last little twist to this novel ruined it for me. Not believable at all and it bothers me. Other than that, a great little suspenseful novel.
Finished: 5/11/08
Year: 2006
Genre: Mystery/Suspense
Grade: B
Reason for reading: grabbed out of a TBR box
Blurb (from book jacket): "Peyton Shield's nightmare begins one icy winter night when, as she is driving home from the hospital where she works as pediatric intern, she is run off the road. She suspects it was no accident, as she fears she's being stalked. But no one believes her, not ever her husband, Kevin Stokes. He thinks she's being paranoid-and the police think she's cracking under stress. After Kevin accuses her of having an affair with an ex-boyfriend, Peyton begins to wonder if her jealous husband might be the one who wants her dead...
"As Petyon quickly learns, the only person she can count on is herself. And without anyone to trust, she realizes she's in more danger than she could ever imagine."
Opinion: The last little twist to this novel ruined it for me. Not believable at all and it bothers me. Other than that, a great little suspenseful novel.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Murder 2: The Second Casebook of Forensic Detection by Colin Evans
Started: 4/16/08
Finished: 4/30/08
Year: 2004
Pages: 303
Genre: Forensic Science
Grade: A
Reason for reading: an interest of mine, grabbed it out of a TBR box
Blurb: There is no written blurb on the back so...it contains several small chapters on different cases where forensic science was utilized. Also contained some information on some key forensic science pioneers.
Opinion: I can see this book being used for a beginner forensic class in school. It contains a lot of general information that is interesting to me. I would recommend this to people who are interested in forensic science and how it can be used in solving different types of crimes.
Finished: 4/30/08
Year: 2004
Pages: 303
Genre: Forensic Science
Grade: A
Reason for reading: an interest of mine, grabbed it out of a TBR box
Blurb: There is no written blurb on the back so...it contains several small chapters on different cases where forensic science was utilized. Also contained some information on some key forensic science pioneers.
Opinion: I can see this book being used for a beginner forensic class in school. It contains a lot of general information that is interesting to me. I would recommend this to people who are interested in forensic science and how it can be used in solving different types of crimes.
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