Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Read but Not Reviewed

Upcoming Reviews

 Silent Mercy by Linda Fairstein  (Women's bodies left dismembered on the steps of a cathedral and old synagogue lead Alexandra Cooper to a circus train and remote vacation island.)

Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers (mother with cancer and her teenage daughter communicate often with notes on the rrefrigerator)

Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner

The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bay by Alan Bradley  (The third book of this delightful trilogy which features the youngest of three sisters and their eccentric household. 11 year old, playing the naive child, is always one step ahead of the local constabulary. A modern day Harriet the Spy.
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman

The Deadhouse by Linda Farstein

Signora da Vinci by Robin Maxwell

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese


The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

Red Herring and Mustard by Alan Bradley


Beach Reads: Sullivan's Island by Dorthea Benton Frank


The Beach House by Jane Green


The Deep Blue Sea For Beginners by Luanne Rice


Mystery/Detective: Edge of Midnight, Murder Take Two, Up in Smoke  by Charlene Weir


Night Tales : Nightshade and Night Smoke by Norah Roberts


The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards


Sullivan's Evidence by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg


Fired Up by Jayne Ann Krentz


Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchaud (3 women + 1 daughter on a sailboat)


The Late, Lamented Molly Marx by Sally Koslow


The School of Night by Louis Bayard


Eats, Shoots & and; Leaves:  The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss


Hurting Distance by Sophie Hannah


Mr and Mrs Anonymous by Fern Michaels (thumbs down)


The Cure by Athold Dickson (interesting look at the homeless)


Now You See Her by Joy Fielding (mother in search of her dead daughter)                                                                                                                                                     


Charley's Web by Joy Fielding (journalist interviewing female 'baby' killer on Death Row)


The Wild Zone by Joy Fielding (surprising twist to a story of brothers and domestic
 violence)


Still Life (in a coma, but able to hear, a woman learns her husband tried to kill her)


The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith (delightful!)


The Arraignment by Steve Martini (a Paul Madriani novel)


The Jury by Steve Martini


The Reversal by Steve Martini


A Change in Altitude by Anita Shrieve (a serious look at the first year of marriage, set in Kenya)


Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope (a collection of misplaced people become a community)


Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Wiener (two women rekindle a childhood friendship, comedic)


Cold Moon Home:  An Abby Silvernale Mystery by Julia Pomeroy (aging scuptor's daughters
childhood secrets revealed 


Portuguese Irregular Verbs  by Alexander McCall Smith (bizarre and funny)


The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs  by above


At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances by above





Just purchased: The Postmistress