Reviews

Reading this book, you find yourself laughing at the ludicrous situations described. As the book continues, however, things get less humorous. For starters, Wolff's familiy was extremely poor and her parents a bit more than naive and frustrating.

If you like reading about politics and examining the different strategies of the candidates to win the office of the presidency, and what happens in the real world when you put those thoughts and ideas into play, you will enjoy this book! I know I did. It helps to be a political junkie, but it isn’t absolutely necessary.

I just finished reading Catherine Hapka's Something Borrowed this week. It was a book I started on May 2, 2010. Granted, I'm a bit of a slow reader, but this one took an exceptionally long time to finish. Partly because I had other things I wanted to get done and partly because reading this book felt like a chore. I wasn't enjoying it at all - the main character, Ava, was really irritating me and her older sister was such a bridezilla. As they say, "I get too attached to fictional characters".

Mysterious, gripping, tension-filled! Nonfiction??? I never thought I would use those adjectives for a nonfiction work but Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson changed my mind. Shadow divers are deep sea divers who explore items on the ocean floor. They differ from other divers in that they dive to depths unheard of by “normal” divers.

I'll admit, comics about little girl mice who wear dresses decorated with hearts and worry about being invited to the popular girl's slumber party aren't my usual cup of tea. But Babymouse: Queen of the World! is too good to dislike.

In artist/writer Jeff Lemire's The Nobody the iconic Invisible Man, John Griffen escapes his lab and the city to hunker down and find his cure in a small town. Befriended by a teenager, Vickie, she tells the story of Griffen, while the rest of the towns folk become suspicious of the bandaged stranger.

By Tilar J. Mazzeo (Published 2009)

I think of myself as a counterculture aficionado. But somehow I was oblivious to the existence of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For until I read the masterful graphic memoir Fun Home and became interested in Bechdel’s other work.

This book of 13 short stories is written by Jincy Willett. Jenny and the Jaws of Life is populated by quirky people, many who lead a poignant life. Each story describes individuals who are faced with a personal crisis and how they manage to cope.

After reading Pickard’s first standalone suspense novel The Virgin of Small Plains, I have been impatiently awaiting her next novel. I have not been disappointed; Nancy Pickard has confirmed again that she can deliver a great mystery.