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Name : Elaine S.
Gender : Female
Occupation : Retired

My Reviews

 
Interesting, Adventurous, Unconvincing
The Pull of the Moon

She is a bit selfish. Meets ordinary and strange people as she travels nowhere in particular to just be on her own leaving husband and home behind.

 
Book Club Recommended
Interesting, Informative
The Heart Mender

A non-fiction book that reads like a novel. I learned so much about how close the Nazis came to the shores of Alabama and how it impacted the lives of the people living around Mobile at the time.

Eyes Wide Open: A Novel by Andrew Gross
 
Book Club Recommended
Scary, Interesting, Dramatic
Eyes Wide Open

Started a little slow but picked up speed and kept me reading to the very end. I didn't want to put it down until I found the answers to my questions about the characters. We enjoyed discussing this book in our club.

 
Book Club Recommended
Informative, Interesting, Insightful
In the Garden of Beasts

 
Book Club Recommended
Poorly Written, Graphic, Romantic
Fifty Sades of Grey

Did he love her because she submitted to him? Why does he "Need" to make women submit to him? Could he find a wife and treat her with love and tenderness? Many questions run through your head while reading this. Can he allow her some freedom to have a life apart from him? He smothers her, he stalks her, yet he acts in some ways as though he cannot live without her because of his feelings of love toward her.

Night Road: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
 
Book Club Recommended
Dramatic, Insightful, Interesting
Night Road

I could not read through my tears at points in the book. Lexi had such compassion for the people she loved.

 
Book Club Recommended
Adventurous, Dramatic, Interesting
Hunger Games Trilogy

I first read Hunger Games and immediately bought the next two books in the trilogy to see how everything turned out.

The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
 
Book Club Recommended
Insightful, Interesting, Informative
The Chaperone

Part history, part romance, and it shows human frailty. Children who were sent out west on trains have stories to tell and I enjoyed reading this one.

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
 
Book Club Recommended
Dramatic, Interesting, Insightful
Gets better the longer you read.

The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay
 
Book Club Recommended
Real Life people fictionalized

Ikey Solomon may not be the man you want to know but his story grips and holds you until you find yourself on his side and have hopes that luck will get him to a safe place. He keeps fascinating you with his cunning ways, he thinks of everything, sometimes too late.

 
Book Club Recommended
Dramatic, Informative, Interesting
One of Grisham's hits

Loved the ending. Was pulling for lettie all along

Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
 
Book Club Recommended
Interesting, Informative, Dramatic
Super Interesting

I have loved all the books written by O'Reilly and this one did not disappoint. So very well researched. He did not write a religious book, but an Historical account of this world changing event.

Camino Winds by Grisham John
 
Book Club Recommended
Adventurous, Unconvincing, Pointless
Camino Winds

Not John Grisham's best writing but enjoyable

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