American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse - the true story of a series of 80 plus fires set in Accomack County, Va during 2012/13. An already impoverished area, the arsons and subsequent trials stretched resources thin. The author, a journalist, made the story read like fiction with a few facts thrown in, making for a compelling read.
4 stars
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Travels with Rachel: In Search of South America by George Mahood - George and Rachel's honeymoon trip to Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. With little preparation and minimal supplies they spent six weeks visiting ancient towns, the Amazon jungle, the pampas and salt flats using mostly local transportation. Told with his usual flair for comedy and willingness to poke fun at himself. A quick, fun read.
3 stars
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Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones - Liesl is a plain girl and lives her life in the shadow of her beautiful sister and talented brother. All her life she's heard stories of the Goblin King and his search for a bride. Then her sister is taken by the GK and in order to save her she agrees to marry him. I'm quite ambivalent about this book. The writing is lovely but it takes forever to get to the point. There's lots of writing music, talking about music, and playing music. And then Leisl wants the GK but he doesn't want her, then he does but she doesn't, then she does but he doesn't. It's a YA book, can you tell? And yet...the ending left me unsatisfied and I've put the second book on my TBR.
3 stars
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