Alaska Traveler Dispatches From America's Last Frontier by Dana Stabenow - a collection of magazine articles. I've read most of the author's mystery books and these were an interesting different side of Alaska from her. I really enjoyed her humor and the interesting places she went.
3 stars
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith - I really like these gentle books although I still can't fathom how a white man writing about a black woman in Botswana makes it all seem so plausible. I really like the musings of Mma Ramotswe as she solves the little mysteries that come to her detective agency and helps her friends with their problems.
3.5 stars
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - recently retired Harold receives a letter from an old friend and on his way to post a reply and begins a walk to see her almost by mistake. Quite a different book and I really enjoyed it.
5 stars
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tucker Peak by Archer Mayor - a Joe Gunther mystery about misdeeds at a ski resort.
3 stars
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie - 8 plays with stage directions and suggestions by the author. I find it a little difficult to read plays since I'm distracted by the stage directions. I knew a couple of the stories already but it was fun to re-read them. The longest book I've read so far this year.
3 stars
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim - the story begins with Japan's taking control of Korea and continues through WWII. I knew little about Korea and had no idea Japan took it over. The story is told mainly from the viewpoint of the daughter but some chapters are from other viewpoints. I really liked it and am not sure why I can't give it 5 stars.
4.5 stars
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shiver by Karen Robards - this book touts itself as a thriller but it was really more like a Harlequin romance book. Yes, there were exciting parts, but in the meantime the heroine and hero are lusting after each other. Finished it because I wanted to know how they got out of their predicament but way too much sex and I figured out the real bad guy almost right away.
2 stars
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unlikely Pilgrimage just went on my TBR list. :)
ReplyDelete