Book Diary

2014

04.27.2014; The Invention of Wings; Sue Monk Kidd; ****

04.13.2014; The Silent Wife; A.S.A. Harrison; **

03.31.2014; Where’d You Go, Bernadette; Maria Semple; ****1/2

03.30.2014; We are Water; Wall Lamb; ***1/2

03.15.2014; The Interestings; Meg Wolitzer; ****

02.27.2014; The Goldfinch; Donna Tartt; ****1/2

02.15.2014; Me Before You; Jojo Moyes; ***1/2

02.09.2014; This is Where I Leave You; Jonathan Tropper; ****

02.06.2014; How Full is Your Bucket; Tom Rath and Donald Clifton; ***

02.05.2013; The Fault in Our Stars; John Green; ****

01.26.2014; The Good Lord Bird; James McBride; ****

01.10.2014; We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves; Karen Joy Fowler; ****

01.03.2014; The Coldest Girl in Coldtown; Holly Black; ***

2013

12.30.2013; Playing Dead; Julia Heaberling, ***1/2

12.17.2013; Who Will Run the Frog Hospital; Lorrie Moore; ***1/2

12.15.2013; The Cuckoo’s Calling; Robert Galbraith; ****1/2

12.05.2013; A Gate at the Stairs; Lorrie Moore; ****1/2

12.01.201; The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet; Jamie Ford; ***

11.10.2013; Raven Stole the Moon; Garth Stein; ***1/2

10.31.2013; The Uncoupling; Meg Wolitzer; ****

10.13.2013; The Silver Star; Jeannette Walls; ***

10.11.2013; Half Broke Horses; Jeannette Walls; ****

10.08.2013; Cutting for Stone; Abraham Verghese; ****1/2

09.29.2013; Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand; Helen Simonson; ****

09.20.2013; The Lifeboat; Charlotte Rogan; ****

09.08.2013; The Sojourn; Andrew Krivak; ***1/2

09.01.2013; Ellen Foster; Kaye Gibbons; ***1/2

08.25.2013; American Rust, Philipp Meyer; ****

08.15.2013; Jewelweed; David Rhodes; ***1/2

08.09.2013; The Dinner; Herman Koch; ***1/2

08.07.2013; The Red House; Mark Haddon; **1/2

07.23.2013; The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope; Rhonda Rile; ***

07.07.2013; Little Altars Everywhere; Rebecca Wells; ***

06.30.2013; Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls; David Sedaris; ***1/2

06.21.2013; Gold; Chris Cleave; ****1/2

06.17.2013; The Financial Lifes of the Poets; Jess Walter; ***1/2

06.10.2013; Burgess Boys; Elizabeth Strout; ****

05.27.2013; Benediction; Kent Haruf; ****1/2

05.24.2013; We Live in Water; Jess Walter; ****

05.18.2013; Let the Great World Spring; Colum McCann; ****1/2

05.08.2013;The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society; Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows;****1/2

05.06.2013; Amy and Isabelle; Elizabeth Strout; ****

04.20.2013; Those Who Save Us; Jenna Blum; ***1/2

04.07.2013; Olive Kitteridge; Elizabeth Strout; ****1/2

03.28.2013; The Language of Flowers; Vanessa Diffenbaugh; ****1/2

03.24.2013; World War Z; Max Brooks; ****

03.15.2013; Nothing to Confess; Donald Hrick; ***1/2

03.12.2013; Arcadia; Lauren Groff; ****1/2

03.10.2013; Canada; Richard Ford; ***

02.21.2013; Twelve Tribes of Hattie; Ayana Mathis; ****

02.17.2013; Defending Jacob; William Landay; ****

02.01.2013; Truth Like the Sun; Jim Lynch; ****

01.27.2013; Imperfect Birds; Anne Lamott; ***

01.16.2013; Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk; Ben Fountain; ****1/2

01.13.2013; Wild; Cheryl Strayed; ***1/2

01.06.2013; Flight Behavior; Barbara Kingsolver; ****1/2

2012

12.30.2012 The Ninth Wife; Amy Stolls; ***

12.13.2012; The Age of Miracles; Karen Thompson Walker; ****

12.08.2012; Wonder; R.J. Palacio; ***1/2

11.27.2012; The End of Your Life Book Club; Will Schwalbe; ****1/2

11.21.2012; The Round House; Louise Erdrich; ****1/2

11.13.2012; Sutton; R.E. Moehringer; ***1/2

11.04.2012; The Orchardist; Amanda Copling; ****

10.27.2012; The Marriage Plot; Jeffrey Eugenides, ***

10.01.2012; Beautiful Ruins; Jess Walter, *****

09.24.2012; Penelope; Rebecca Harrington, ***

09.18.2012; The Dog Stars; Peter Heller, ****1/2

09.12.2012; The Cement Garden; Ian McEwan, ***

09.10.2012; The Berlin Boxing Club; Robert Sharenow, ****

09.06.2012; Gone Girl; Gillian Flynn, ****

09.01.2012; The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry; Rachel Joyce, ****

08.26.2012; The Weird Sisters; Eleanor Brown, ****

08.17.2012; Home; Toni Morrison, ***1/2

08.16.2012; Tell the Wolves I’m Home; Carol Rifka Brunt, ****1/2

08.14.2012; The History of a Pleasure Seeker; Richard Mason, **

08.12.2012; The Cat’s Table; Michael Ondaatje, ****

08.09.2012; The Tiger’s Wife; Tea Obreht, ****

07.29.2012; Light a Penny Candle; Maeve Binchy, *

07.15.2012; Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith, ****

07.05.2012; The Beginners’ Goodbye, Anne Tyler, ***1/2

07.01.2012; The Sisters Brothers, Patrick DeWitt, ****

06.24.2012; Consequences, Penelope Lively, **

06.16.2012; The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson, ****

06.03.2012; Salvage the Bones; Jesmyn Ward, ****1/2

06.02.2012; Doc, Maria Doria Russell, ****

05.16.2012; In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson, **1/2

04.8.2012; Truth and Beauty, Ann Patchett, ****1/2

04.13.2012; The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman, ***1/2

03.18.2012; Swamplandia!, Karen Russell, ****

03.09.2012; The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes, ***

02.27.2012; Lost Memory of Skin, Russell Banks, ****

02.22.2012; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs, ****1/2

02.19.2012; The Night Circus, Erin Morgensten, ***1/2

02.07.2012; A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan****

01.31.2012; One Day, David Nicholls, ***1/2

01.21.2012; The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz ****

01.13.2012, The Poison Tree, Erin Kelly ***1/2

01.03.2012, Ed King, David Guterson ****

2011

Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins; *** 1/2

The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein, ****

Razing Jake, Charlie Carilo, ****1/2

How Evan Broke his Head and Other Secrets, Garth Stein, ****

Mocking Jay, Suzanne Collins, ***

Room, Emma Donoghue, ****1/2

Three James, (Author???), ****

Letter from Point Clear, Dennis McFarlan, ****

Fugitive Pieces, Anne, Michaels, ***

The Paris Wife, Paula McLain, ***1/2

The Other, David Guterson, ***1/2

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Walter Mosley, ****1/2

Sister Mine, Tawni O’Dell, ***

Making Toast, Roger Rosenblatt, ****

The Metropolis Case, Matthew Gallaway, ****

Keeping Time, Stacey McGlynn, ***

Shadow Tag, Louise Erdrich, ***1/2

Fall of Giants, Ken Follett, ***

Faith, Jennifer Haigh, ****

The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver, *****

The Confession, John Grisham, ***1/2

The 19th Wife, David Ebershoff, ****

Calebs Crossing, Geraldine Brooks, ****

State of Wonder, Ann Patchett, ****1/2

Gone with a Handsome Man, Michael Lee West, **1/2

Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand, ***1/2

The Vices, Lawrence Douglas, ***1/2

The Astral, Kate Christensen, ***

Lamb, Bonnie Nadzam, **1/2

The Gap Year, Sarah Bird, **1/2

The Thing We Didn’t Say, Sarah Bird, ***

The Way Things Look to Me, Roopa Farooki, ***1/2

The Witch of Hebron, James Howard Kunstler, ****1/2

The Things We Cherished, Pam Jenoft, ***

Father Mucker, Greg Olear, ***1/2

World Made by Hand, James Howard Kunstler, ***1/2

The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman, ****1/2

One Second After, William Forstchen, **1/2