Life’s Weirder Than Fiction

Book Review– Looking for Alaska

Looking for Alaska by John Green My rating: 4 of 5 stars Move over Salinger, here comes John Green. This is a coming of age story that is truly contemporary and real, sans rose-coloured glasses. Green doesn’t skim over the concept that high-school teens know about -and often do- drugs, alcohol, and sex. But Looking for Alaska ...

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Book Review: The Day the Falls Stood Still

The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan My rating: 4 of 5 stars Buchanan’s novel reads so well that it’s easy to think it’s written simply, but it’s in fact an elaborate, rich, and lush story filled with complex characters and historical details. These details –from World War I era– are what made ...

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Book Review– Silent Thunder

Silent Thunder by Iris Johansen My rating: 1 of 5 stars Silent Thunder is one of the worst written books I’ve read in a long time, and greatly disappointing. The dialogue is trite and flat (“Son of a bitch. Bradworth was staring after him. “Bastard.”), the characters are unidimensional (the Russians are the bad guys), the ...

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Book Review– The Resurrectionist

The Resurrectionist by Jack O’Connell My rating: 2 of 5 stars The Resurrectionist is the story of Sweeny, a father who desperately wants to find a way to re-awaken his comatose son, Danny. To that end, he arrives at the “Peck,” a private clinic renown for its care of patients in a coma. Interwoven into Sweeny’s journey ...

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Nigella Express: Good Food Fast

Nigella Express by Nigella Lawson My rating: 3 of 5 stars I don’t often review cookbooks. In fact, I almost never review them, but I felt this one deserved a mention. I first became interested in Nigella Lawson’s type of cooking through her TV program, Nigella Bites. She has a way of going through a recipe ...

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