The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty Final Verdict: 3.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 68 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable. The Optimist’s Daughter is primarily a story about place, position, and values, although it does also touch on familial relationships and dealing with grief and the lost past. The main character, Laurel, is…
Review: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Final Verdict: 3.5 out of 4.0 YTD: 67 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable. Thursday Next, Special Ops LiteraTec Agent, has a secret or two. The biggest secret, perhaps, is that, as a young girl, she once met Mr. Rochester inside Bronte’s Jane Eyre. In doing so,…
Review: A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 6 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable. Well, well, well. I suppose I should have known that enjoying this first book in the Sherlock Holmes series would be elementary, my dear – indubitably! Seriously, though, I am…
Review: The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau Final Verdict: 3.25 out of 4.0 YTD: 4 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable. It is sometime in the future, on planet Earth, and something rather terrible has happened. For reasons not explained (though one would infer nuclear apocalypse), most of the world’s population has been…
Review: It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini Final Verdict: 3.25 out of 4.0 YTD: 2 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting and believable 15-year-old Craig is having problems. He sees a psycho-pharmacologist and psychologist regularly, he takes Zoloft, smokes pot, can’t eat, and regularly listens to the militant voice in his head, which…
