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| Name : | Denise K. |
| Gender : | Female |
| Occupation : | Retired |
My Reviews
It was long, but interesting. I don't like torture at all, so the prison scenes were hard to read. He was quite a human being. Very well written.
I love reading about the Great Depression and there are not many fiction books about it. The difference between a hobo and bum, riding the train as a boy, the negative history of Henry Ford, and the Veteran's Bonus March was very informative. Definitely recommend this as an interesting read.
You need to get through the first 3 chapters to know all the characters and eventually how they will connect with each other. After that you're hooked! Things are not always black or white, but a lot of shades of gray.
Read 'The Author's Notes' before you start the book. We didn't realize it wasn't about a fictional character.
Amazing woman for her time and what a difference she might have made today?
Great characters and a different story line.
Never read any of her Harry Potter books, but her vocabulary makes you look up words! The main character is a very different detective and the locale in London was different. A mystery is always fun to try to figure out early who-done-it, but this one was more difficult than most! We all look forward to reading the sequel "Silkworm".
Different format that made it difficult to know the characters or understand why certain events happened.
Very long and laborious to get through, more like homework. Was interesting about the life and wife of Robert Louis Stevenson.
One of the best books I've read in a while. Told a side of WWII that I hadn't thought about...how the children were affected: the Hitler Youth school, how communication with the radio was key during that war, how families and towns were altered forever, etc. Even though it was 545 pages, it was a fast read and I couldn't put it down!
Very different for a basically romantic book. Very funny and informative about a man with Aspergers deciding he needed to find a wife. How he went about it was hilarious and also a bit sad and frustrating for him. The ending was appropriate and I'd definitely recommend this to other book clubs as being out of the normal book choice.
Loosely based on a true life story, it was fast paced and a quick read which I couldn't put down. I recommended it to our book club and everyone loved it! Plus, we live in Northern California where most of the story took place in the late 1800's so the cities where she/he drove the stagecoach were familiar to us. Great read!!
I really liked this book and they're making a movie of it!!
There were so many different layers to the story and the character developments were excellent to where you cared about them. So many different personal stories in a small town with young boys having to grow up faster than they should have done. Good read!
Very thought-provoking book and made you think about the afterlife, God, spirituality, and grieving. When you realize it is also a mystery then you try to figure it out. The invention of the telephone interwoven into the story was also informative. Our book club liked the premise.
There are excellent scenes and lines in this novel, and I'm glad I read it as a Pulitzer Prize book, but in the end it reminded me of the antique shop the character Hobie runs in in the book:" many amazing, high-quality things half hidden beneath mounds of less interesting stuff!
This memoir is very medically clinical and a difficult read. Also, the age group of our club (mid 60's-70's) made the subject a bit too close to home as many of our friends and family have died of cancer.
Enjoyed the 2 very different era's and how Women's Rights have changed since the 1920's. How we used to treat the mentally ill was criminal by today's standards!
Didn't know anything about Beryl Markham and had not read Out of Africa. She was a woman very ahead of her time before Women's Rights. She was a horse trainer, pilot and adventurous for a woman in 1920's Kenya. Well written and researched; based on a true story but read as fiction.
I thought "no, not another WWII novel", but was so wrong! I never thought of the children in Europe during that war! Our club is in a Senior community and one of our members was 7 years old in Germany at the beginning of that war. Her memories were almost better than the book but so very informative and heartbreaking too!
Written more for high school readers.
This was a part of history that many of us in our club did not know about the WWII in France and how women were involved and the sacrifices they had to make.
This book is the first in a series of 11! I had a difficult time getting into the book or caring about the characters. There is some humor but didn't feel there was much substance for a book club to have a good open forum review.
The beginning is very technical and read more like a non-fiction, but once you understood the characters I was finally involved enough to want to finish. Checking all the main men on Wikipedia was very interesting.
A lot of history in this book of which some of us knew nothing about so was very informative. Being in different locals during the story with more history made it more interesting. Most felt however that for a long book, it ended rather abruptly and a bit unsatisfying. But overall everyone enjoyed it.
Initially main character not very likeable and blames things on her constant drinking/medications/anxiety problems and makes several serious errors in judgment.It is reminiscent of Girl on a Train but on a cruise yacht and less involved or interesting. Lot of narrative not needed.
I was hooked on this book after the first chapter and then couldn't put it down! I love a book that I'm thinking about what will happen next when I'm unable to read at that particular time. Usually I can figure out early who did what to whom, but this book had me wondering until towards the end...and then the ending was a shock!!
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