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Review of Little Deaths by Emma Flint

February 4, 2017 by Ann Marie 6 Comments

Little Deaths

I was so excited to begin this this book. I knew that it was based on a true story story but it was one I was unfamiliar with. I made the conscious decision not to do any research on the case prior to reading this fictionalized version. As you can probably tell from my rating, I had several problems with the book. The first is that it was really quite boring. It just dragged on until the very ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: alice crimmins, ARC, BEA16 Book, emma flint

Review of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

December 5, 2016 by Ann Marie 8 Comments

Gentleman Moscow

My Review "Some years later, the Count would come to understand that he had been looking at the matter upside down. The pace of evolution was not something to be frightened by. For while nature doesn't have a stake in whether the wings of a peppered moth are black or white, it genuinely hopes that the peppered moth will persist." A Gentleman in Moscow is the story of Count Alexander Ilyich ...

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Filed Under: ARC, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: amor towles, BEA16 Book, best books 2016, Fiction, great book club read, Historical Fiction, moscow

Review of “Cruel Beautiful World” by Carolyn Leavitt

November 14, 2016 by Ann Marie 7 Comments

Review Cruel Beautiful Worls

Cruel Beautiful World is a book filled with so many stories within stories I'm not sure how the author, Caroline Leavitt, managed to incorporate them all so organically and seamlessly into one book. Sixteen year old has run away with her high school English teacher. Though her sister, Charlotte, and her guardian, Iris, do everything in their power to find her and bring her home, Lucy remains ...

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Filed Under: ARC, Book Review, Fiction, Literary Fiction Tagged With: BEA16 Book, Carolyn Leavitt, Coming of Age

Review of “History of Wolves” by Emily Fridlund

November 9, 2016 by Ann Marie 2 Comments

History of Wolves is one of those novels that I couldn't put down but, in the end, I have mixed feelings about. Linda is a socially awkward 14 year old girl living in Minnesota with her family. Her parents, especially her mother, are somewhat strange and detached. When the Gardener family moves in across the lake, Linda begins babysitting for their four year old son,Paul, while Paul's mother, ...

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Filed Under: ARC, Book Review, Fiction, Literary Fiction Tagged With: BEA16 Book, Coming of Age, death and dying, emily fridlund, great book club read

Review of “Dark Matter” by Blake Crouch

November 7, 2016 by Ann Marie 4 Comments

Holy weirdness! This book is as strange and compelling as a book can be! I wasn't sure what to expect when I began Dark Matter. It was much-hyped at BEA and I'd seen all of the rave reviews but still... I'm not even a sci-fi fan. Sure, I love a little Stephen King or Dean Koontz now and then. (Who doesn't??) But it has to be good. Really good. Weird enough to be interesting but not weird enough ...

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Filed Under: ARC, Fiction, Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: BEA16 Book, Blake Crouch, Thriller/Suspense

Review of “The Last Days of Night” by Graham Moore

August 10, 2016 by Ann Marie 2 Comments

I do not care so much for a great fortune as I do for getting ahead of the other fellows.  - Thomas Edison Until I read this book, I had an impression of what it would have been like to see the night lit for the first time. It was terribly romantic. It was surreal, ethereal, and peaceful. (Sort of like this book's beautiful cover.) There were scientists and engineers of all sorts slapping each ...

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Filed Under: ARC, Book Review, Fiction, Random House, Uncategorized Tagged With: ARC, BEA16 Book, Fiction, George Westinghouse, Graham Moore Book, Historical Fiction, NetGalley, Nikola Tesla, Paul Cravath, recommended for book club, Thomas Edison, War of Current

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