August 24-30, 2014

Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty by Elizabeth Mitchell - turns out it's a myth that the Statue was a gift from the French people. She was actually the idea of the sculptor, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. A little too much detail into peripheral characters and somewhat repetitious.

2 stars
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Felicia's Journey by William Trevor - a pregnant Irish girl journeys to England to find her boyfriend. She is befriended by a rather odd man. A sense of dread gradually builds as the relationship grows. Quite a twist at the end.

3 stars
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I Can See in the Dark by Karin Fossum - Riktor is not a very nice man and he knows it. He's shocked, however, when he's arrested for the death of one of the patients in the nursing home where he works.  He's done something worse. Told in the first person.

4 stars
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The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit - this is written in first person plural and so is very generic in a way. But I thought that helped convey the confusion and loneliness the wives must have felt while their husbands were inventing the atomic bomb. This is a work of fiction.

4 stars
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A Colder War by Charles Cumming - an old fashion spy novel. A disgraced spy must find a mole in either the British or American agency.

3 stars
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Delancey:  A Man, A Woman, A Restaurant, A Marriage by Molly Wizenberg - Molly hasn't been married very long when her husband, with no experience, decides to open a pizza restaurant. This book is the true story of what happens to them along the way. With recipes.

3 stars
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Lucky Us by Amy Bloom - a rather odd book with not totally likable characters and yet I cared about them enough to continue reading. Eva and Iris, half sisters who don't know about each other for several years, strike out into the world during the 40's. Along the way they meet people who become family.

3 stars