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A Model Summer
By Paulina Porizkova
read 6/18/11
Written by a former model as fiction, but may be semi-autobiographical. Follows a 15 yr old girl who is sent to France for the summer to model. She has little direction or supervision and is painfully insecure. She stumbles along without any help trying to figure out what she is expected to do... along the way she learns some lessons about life sex love people and relationships.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
The Signal (7)
The Signal
by Ron Carlson
read 5/29/11
Story about a guy fly fishing with his ex-wife in Wyoming. Gets into the back story about how they met and why they broke up, inter mixed with some other story teasers. The story was ok... had trouble figuring out where it was going at times. The imagery was cool as they hike through the wilderness.
by Ron Carlson
read 5/29/11
Story about a guy fly fishing with his ex-wife in Wyoming. Gets into the back story about how they met and why they broke up, inter mixed with some other story teasers. The story was ok... had trouble figuring out where it was going at times. The imagery was cool as they hike through the wilderness.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
A Charmed Life (6)
A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle
By Liza Campbell
Read 5/15/11
When she was a young girl her Grandfather died and her father inherited a title and a Cawdor castle in Scotland as his birthright. So the family moves to the castle and dad proceeds to spend lavish amounts of money and cars and parties, he can be extremely mean to his wife and family. Makes a series of bad business decisions while drinking more and more. Eventually the wife leaves and he remarries, after he dies the estate becomes a mess and more facts about his life come to light.
Enjoyable read, but heavy on British history....
By Liza Campbell
Read 5/15/11
When she was a young girl her Grandfather died and her father inherited a title and a Cawdor castle in Scotland as his birthright. So the family moves to the castle and dad proceeds to spend lavish amounts of money and cars and parties, he can be extremely mean to his wife and family. Makes a series of bad business decisions while drinking more and more. Eventually the wife leaves and he remarries, after he dies the estate becomes a mess and more facts about his life come to light.
Enjoyable read, but heavy on British history....
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Street Players (5)
Street Players
Donald Goines
Read May 8, 2011
Two books in 2 days :) According to the cover Donald Goins is the greatest ghetto writer that ever lived. This is a tale of several pimps in Detroit focusing on Earl and his struggles with his girls, his ups and down, fortune and failure.
Interesting in the late 60's genere.
Donald Goines
Read May 8, 2011
Two books in 2 days :) According to the cover Donald Goins is the greatest ghetto writer that ever lived. This is a tale of several pimps in Detroit focusing on Earl and his struggles with his girls, his ups and down, fortune and failure.
Interesting in the late 60's genere.
Three Stations (4)
Three Stations
Martin Cruz Smith
Read May 7, 2011
I love the Arkady Renko novels, I read my first on in 1981 in High School and have enjoyed each one since. This is the latest in the series, Renko still in Moscow, still in trouble with his bosses... and still trying to solve crimes that nobody wants him to look into. This book spends a lot of time with Zhenya the boy who Renko has met in previous books. He is living at Kosomol Square a notorious railway station know locally as Three Stations, he meets a young girl who has had her baby stolen and is trying to help her while Renko investigates an OD of a prostitute.
Another excellent book, I read it in a day and wished it would not end so soon!
Martin Cruz Smith
Read May 7, 2011
I love the Arkady Renko novels, I read my first on in 1981 in High School and have enjoyed each one since. This is the latest in the series, Renko still in Moscow, still in trouble with his bosses... and still trying to solve crimes that nobody wants him to look into. This book spends a lot of time with Zhenya the boy who Renko has met in previous books. He is living at Kosomol Square a notorious railway station know locally as Three Stations, he meets a young girl who has had her baby stolen and is trying to help her while Renko investigates an OD of a prostitute.
Another excellent book, I read it in a day and wished it would not end so soon!
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Whoreson (3)
Whoreson
By Donald Goines
Read 4/24/11
Donald Goines was a Michigan writer of some note before being killed in 1974. He wrote about the black urban experience. This book starts in the 40's with a baby born to a prostitute and follow him as he grows up in the slums of Detroit and quickly learns the game, running prostitutes and scams so he can lead the easy life. The book is an interesting look a the ghettos of the 1950s and how the man would do anything to get to the ends.. with no regard to the people he crushed on his way.
Highly recommended, I will have to pick up some of his other novels!
By Donald Goines
Read 4/24/11
Donald Goines was a Michigan writer of some note before being killed in 1974. He wrote about the black urban experience. This book starts in the 40's with a baby born to a prostitute and follow him as he grows up in the slums of Detroit and quickly learns the game, running prostitutes and scams so he can lead the easy life. The book is an interesting look a the ghettos of the 1950s and how the man would do anything to get to the ends.. with no regard to the people he crushed on his way.
Highly recommended, I will have to pick up some of his other novels!
The Lost Symbol (2)
The Lost Symbol
By Dan Brown
Finished 4/23/11
This is the latest Dan Brown thriller, and the plot is wound around Freemasonry, and set in Washington DC. Surprisingly I didnt find the part about Masonry that interesting, but there was some great stuff about DC.
I have this love hate relationship with Dan Brown.. his books read like a made for TV movie... they keep leading up to cliff hangers then focus on another character. This is annoying, however he has the wonderful way of slowing revealing information and back story that is very clever.
This was a worthwhile and enjoyable read.
By Dan Brown
Finished 4/23/11
This is the latest Dan Brown thriller, and the plot is wound around Freemasonry, and set in Washington DC. Surprisingly I didnt find the part about Masonry that interesting, but there was some great stuff about DC.
I have this love hate relationship with Dan Brown.. his books read like a made for TV movie... they keep leading up to cliff hangers then focus on another character. This is annoying, however he has the wonderful way of slowing revealing information and back story that is very clever.
This was a worthwhile and enjoyable read.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Cubra Libre (1)
Cubra Libre
Elmore Leonard
finished 3/31/11
My reading has become nearly non-existant, but I will see what I can do to turn this around. I started reading this book last fall and stopped. I picked it up again this winter and started from the beginning... then fell off... and read about 1/2 of it this week. Honestly this is not one of Leonards best. It is set in late 1800's in Cuba and revolves around a horse trader who gets thrown in jail... involved in a plan that involves a pretty girl from New Orleans and $40,000 in cash... all set against the back drop of the looming Spanish American war. I kept getting lost in the characters and the causes... at least I got through it!
Elmore Leonard
finished 3/31/11
My reading has become nearly non-existant, but I will see what I can do to turn this around. I started reading this book last fall and stopped. I picked it up again this winter and started from the beginning... then fell off... and read about 1/2 of it this week. Honestly this is not one of Leonards best. It is set in late 1800's in Cuba and revolves around a horse trader who gets thrown in jail... involved in a plan that involves a pretty girl from New Orleans and $40,000 in cash... all set against the back drop of the looming Spanish American war. I kept getting lost in the characters and the causes... at least I got through it!
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