Adults Book Reviews
This is where I review books that are meant for adults - that means anyone over the age of 18. Of course, there are those under 18 years old who may find many of these books to their liking, particularly the classics which include most of my favorites. I've been on a mission to read the Pulitzer fiction winners and I think anyone who can understand these books, and many are also required reading in high school, should enjoy these classics. If you have a suggestion for a book you would like to read that you want my review of, I would be happy to assist you.
- In: Adults
After all the editing and re-editing and finally ordering my copies of Deep Lake House and waiting to see that they've shipped....finally, they have shipped and will be here on Tuesday, October 22, 2024.
And now it is time to break out the champagne!
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Although I’ve only read one book by Haruki Murakami, ‘A Wild Sheep Chase’, that I found just a bit confusing, particularly the ending (in my defense, I found out later that Wild Sheep Chase was the last book in a trilogy – the novel might have made more sense to me if I knew that and had read the other two novels first), I have been drawn to his work and bought ‘Novelist as a Vocation’, his latest. Not his usual fiction novel but a non-fiction book (he does have other non-fiction books) it is packed full of useful information that every writer could use, particularly if you are not a traditional author, the category I find myself in since I write in a variety of genres and don’t seem to have a fixed style (think of James Patterson).
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To say I loved this book would be an understatement. I can’t think of higher praise than to say that Ms. Long gave us a book long overdue. Since I am in the category that she refers to in the book, “Dancing with the Muse in Old Age”, I could relate to so many of the stories she shared.
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My first exposure to Lilian Jackson Braun, "The Cat Who Had 14 Tales" is a collection of short stories where a cat, or two, plays the main role.
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I’m really beginning to like Barbara Kingsolver. After reading ‘The Bean Trees’, I needed something else of a similar quality and knew I would get it from another Kingsolver novel. This collection of stories, individual in their telling but with a similar slant, the underserved, the downtrodden, the poor and misunderstood, was right up my alley. These are also the characters I want to shine a light on in my story-telling.