I know normally I put a non-fiction book here, but this month my favorite book was Afraid by Jack Kilborn my review is here.
Jack Kilborn is a new to me author and his writing is not for the faint of heart. This book was full of terror and suspense. It started off with a bang and never let go, I also liked that it didn’t end with everything tied up in a nice little bow. I will be reading more by this author.
Mary Two Dogs is an Assiniboin Sioux girl. She grew up in New York the only child of musician parents, but when they die in a car accident coming back from a gig, she’s shipped off to live with her Aunt Janet in Georgia. The South is a strange new world to her, and she becomes the target of racist attacks from some of the other girls. Her Aunt Janet, an undercover FBI agent can’t move, but to keep Mary safe, she sends her to the Assiniboin reservation in Montana. A place Mary has only heard about, but has never been.
The book covers a lot, Mary’s parents die, she goes to live with her Aunt in Georgia and experiences prejudice, she then goes to the Sioux reservation because her Aunt feels she is not safe in Georgia. There she has to learn a way of living different from New York and different from Georgia.
There is also a history lesson in the book about the Sioux people told from the view of a young Sioux maiden. Mary learns important things about the past and her own ability to deal with change and difficult situations.
I enjoyed this book and I also had a young friend read it. She also liked it and thought the language was appropriate for YA. I would recommend this book.
This is Jack Ford’s first novel and it is good. He weaves a famous case from history (The Lindbergh Kidnapping) into a crime happening today. The mystery also involve a crime of national importance and stolen journal that the owner desperately wants back, since it ties him to both crimes. The thief is being tracked down by thugs, a prosecutor and a reporter following a story are also trying to find this journal since they believe it will answer several key questions about a modern day smuggling operation. The thugs will kill to get the journal back, and someone is leaking information to them.
I liked this book because although you didn’t get slammed into the action in the first few pages, the author didn’t take forever to get to the heart of the story. The going back and forth in time and from setting to setting was done skillfully, you never had a ‘Huh? Who’s talking here?’ moment. He also gave the prosecutor Stark a background that made the things he did believable, in that he did things that you wouldn’t think a lawyer capable of, but a former Army Special Forces would be. The ending was a minor disappointment to me, things seem to tie together a little too neatly, but it wasn’t a totally unbelieveable ending, it followed the story line. I would recommend this book to people who like thrillers and suspense. There was a lot of violence in the book, but it didn’t have graphic descriptions of the murdered bodies.
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I am a little late with this notice, the blog tour for “A Worthy Legacy” started July 5th and will run until July 18th. My day on the tour is July 11th. Tomi Akinyanmi the author of “A Worthy Legacy” will be stopping by to answer any questions and respond to comments. You can also check out her website “A Worthy Legacy”.
Tomorrow (July 7) she will be at Lost in books and Book Nest Reviews.
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A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
First off, let me say I am not a mother and have no plans to be a mother, so it may seem strange that I picked this book to read. My best friend has 4 children and I have lived with her since the oldest was 3 years old. I have been their secondary caregiver and their only babysitter, sometimes I feel like their mother, sometimes their favorite aunt. This book sounded interesting, since I am around my best friend alot, I am also around other mothers (they tend to congregate I’ve noticed), being an ‘outsider’ gives me the opportunity to observe, a lot. On to my review.
In her book ‘Bad Mother’, Ayelet Waldman discusses many things:, society’s perception of what makes a good mother versus a good father; the ‘bad mother police’, and confrontations with them; how she personally has felt at times she has failed her children and feels she is a ‘crappy’ mother; her children and herself’s disabilities and failings. Finally, the realization that she is not a crappy mother. That society’s expectations of mother’s is unrealistic. This book is funny and insightful. Ayelet has a quick wit (there is a chapter on that) and for the most part is brutally honest.
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This is the first in Lisa Jackson’s New Orleans Series. It features Detective Rick Bentz and his partner Detective Reuben Montoya investigating the murders of prostitutes, all killed the same way, it seems a serial killer is stalking New Orleans. At the same time popular late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds has a fan who’d like to love her to death…literally. She has received pranks calls and mutilated pictures of herself. Detective Bentz is assigned to the case also, the prank calls coincide with the murders, is it a coincidence or the same man? Of course we know it is the same man, the suspense here is, how are the police going to find out the connection, who is the next victim and how will he be stopped? There are subplots and a little romance thrown in, secrets from the past. The only problem I had was with the synopsis I read said Sam’s dark secret from her past. There was a dark secret, but it wasn’t Sam’s, it was connected to something that had happened that she was involved in, but she didn’t even know it! Little things like that bug me.
Anyway, this was another well put together book, plots and subplots, multiple characters and little tidbits along the way to keep you hooked, suspicions abound, I KNEW who did it! But I was WRONG!
The 2009 Support Your Local Library Challenge
1. Deep Freeze by Lisa Jackson ~ Finished June 4
2. Serial by Jack Kilborn & Black Crouch ~ Finished June 7
3. Almost Dead by Lisa Jackson ~ Finished June 10
4. She and I: A Fugue by Michael R. Brown ~ Quit June 19
5. Afraid by Jack Kilborn ~ Finished June 23
Gwendolyn B. at A Sea Of Books presented me with The Literary Blogger Award. I’m honored to be a recipient of this beautiful award, and tickled pink that she thinks I am worthy. (Can you see me blushing?)
The Literary Blogger Award acknowledges bloggers who energize & inspire reading by going the extra mile. These amazing bloggers make reading fun & enhance the delight of reading!
This is the second time I have received this lovely award. I have a policy of only passing awards on the first time I get them, I have added Gwendolyn B.’s name to my award post. While I was over at A Sea of Books, I saw something interesting I wanted to share.
Go to this website to enter to win a signed copy of Kathryn Casey’s new book.
The action occurs in an isolated town in Wisconsin called Safe Haven, one road in and one road out. Law enforcement consists of one sheriff, the fire department has 2 firefighters and one truck. The town is anything but a safe haven when a team of special ops arrives under cover of darkness on a sinister mission to isolate, terrorize and annihilate, the whole town if they have to. One of the residents has a dark secret and they won’t stop until they find him.
Horror or thriller, I don’t which category this falls into, a little of both I think. The action starts early and keeps building in intensity. It is a thrill ride from start to finish. At point I was wondering how anyone would still be alive at the end, then I started to wonder if anyone would be alive at the end. The plot had some very unexpected twists and a shocking conclusion.
This book is not for the weak hearted, if you are not a fan of horror and do not like being scared by what you read this book is definitely not for you, there is a lot of graphic, gory violence in it.
2009 eBook Reading Challenge
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I am reading the Bible, books, magazines, online newspaper articles, blogs, jokes on candy wrappers, ads on the subway, billboards, backs of food boxes, lists of ingredients and recipes, cleaning directions, sayings on shirts, then I write and write. When I'm not reading, I'm experiencing life, trying out new restaurants and getting massages. I write about those places here, take a look, you might find something you like.
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