As if February weren’t bad enough on its own, turns out it was a lame book month. I read four books this month, none of which were that good. One of them – Headhunters by Jo Nesbo – will get its own review soon. But the other three just didn’t make enough of an impression on me [...]
Posts Tagged ‘two and a half stars’
Hemingway and His Paris Wife – From Two Angles
Posted in Fiction, Memoir, Nonfiction, tagged A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, Hadley Richardson, Marriage, Paris, Paris Wife, three and a half stars, two and a half stars on October 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The Paris Wife by Paula McClain and A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway I recently read The Paris Wife by Paula McClain a novel about Ernest Hemingway’s first marriage to Hadley Richardson and their years living in Paris in the 19020′s. I then immediately followed it up with A Moveable Feast, Hemingway’s posthumous memoir about the [...]
Reliably Creepy
Posted in Fiction, Novel, tagged A Reliable Wife, two and a half stars, Victorian era on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Reliable Wife By: Robert Goolrick I grabbed A Reliable Wife at a used book store because the premise seemed intriguing: a man places an ad for a “reliable wife” in a paper, a woman responds, but she’s anything but reliable. Turns out, he isn’t either. It sounded like it would be a good, buttoned-up, [...]
A Confederacy of Duh-unces
Posted in Fiction, Novel, tagged A Confederacy of Dunces, Book Club, Ignatius J. Reilly, John Kennedy Toole, New Orleans, three and a half stars, two and a half stars, valve on April 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A Confederacy of Dunces By: John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces was a book club pick. We have been reading a lot of new, recently published books, so we decided to go with something that fell into the “classic” category. I’m not sure this one is truly a “classic” , but it’s been around for awhile and [...]
Water for Elephants? More Like Meh for Elephants
Posted in Fiction, Novel, tagged circus, reese witherspoon, robert pattinson, sara gruen, two and a half stars, water for elephants on March 27, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Water for Elephants By: Sara Gruen Oh, Water for Elephants… America loves you. America loves you so much that Hollywood is making a movie about you starring Reese and Rob (swoon!). So why can’t I love you too? Probably because you had so much potential and didn’t live up to it. I will admit, my [...]
Eat Your Heart Out, Brangelina
Posted in Biography, tagged Elizabeth Taylor, Furious Love, Original Brangelina, Richard Burton, two and a half stars on February 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century By: Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger I didn’t know much about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s relationship but after reading an excerpt of Furious Love in Vanity Fair over the summer, my interest was piqued. After finishing Furious Love, my interest was still piqued because [...]
The Irresistible Henry House – Lisa Grunwald
Posted in Novel, tagged practice baby, the irresistible henry house, two and a half stars on December 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Irresistible Henry House was just okay. It had potential because it fictionalized an interesting little ism in history. In the book, Henry House was raised as a “practice baby” in a college home economics program. Henry had multiple “practice mothers” (students in the program) until he was about two years old and he was [...]
The Collaborator – Alice Kaplan
Posted in Biography, History, tagged nazis, robert brasillach, two and a half stars, Vichy France, world war II on November 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This book’s full title is The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach. After reading Sarah’s Key, I was interested in learning more about life in Vichy France and a family member recommended this one (thanks Uncle Gary!). Robert Brasillach was a fascist French writer during World War II and was the only writer of any [...]
American Adulterer – Jed Mercurio
Posted in History, Novel, tagged american adulterer, JFK, presidency, sex, two and a half stars on September 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
American Adulterer looks closely at John F. Kennedy’s lecherous tendencies while in office. The book tries to make the case that JFK cheated on his wife because he had difficulty concentrating, developed headaches, and in general, had a hard time getting his presidential work done if he didn’t have a lot of sex with a [...]
Waiter Rant – Steve Dublanica
Posted in Memoir, tagged beach read, memoir, server, two and a half stars, waiter rant on August 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Waiter Rant i s based on a blog that Steve Dublanica used to write anonymously about his experiences as a server in what sounds like a decent restaurant. I had read his blog a few times and as someone who spent a number of years working in the service industry, I thought I would find [...]
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