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Saxton Reads! & ReviewsWe invite the public to post reviews to our catalog by logging into our online catalog. Reviews will then be posted to this blog. Comments can be added to existing posts or may be added as separate reviews on our catalog NOVEMBER 24, 2009
Widow's Season ~ Laura Brodie
****reviewed by CarolK
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
The Road ~ Cormac McCarthy
*****reviewed by bas bleu Haunting! A while back, I read a library blog on the topic of books that really scare you. One respondent selected The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, as her pick. I have spent the last month immersed in teaching The Hunger Games, a well-written story about a future dystopic world. The Road appealed to me because it takes dystopia one step further and gives the reader a horrifying glimpse of a post-apocalyptic future.
NOVEMBER 14, 2009
Songs for the Missing ~ Stewart O'Nan
*****reviewed by CarolK Connecticut is fortunate to have many fine authors, Stewart O'Nan, being one of them. This past summer I read three books about missing children. One of these and the best by far was O'Nan's Songs for the Missing. There are only so many plots and it always amazes me how differently each author will handle similar stories. It sounds like a simple plot. Eighteen year old Kim Larsen disappears from her Lake Erie town. Read this opening and see if you are not intrigued to continue...
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
Shopaholic Ties the Knot ~ Sophie Kinsella
***review by Mercedes Ah, Becky Bloomwood... What can I say? This series keeps me coming back and yet when I'm in the middle of one of Becky's outrageous episodes, I can't help but wonder why. Becky is quite the creation and I know I could never spend more than ten minutes with her if she was a real person. So frustrating, so materialistic, and so clueless at times, yet I still feel bad for her, even when the predicament is of her own making, and I'm always cheering for her by the end because of the way she's fixed things. That I guess is why I keep reading (not to mention that I love her boyfriend, now husband, Luke. What a gem! But why he puts up with Becky is a mystery.) I don't know the names of designers like Becky does. I haven't got a clue about fashion like Becky does. I don't live and work with people who have more money than they know what to do with like Becky does. I guess that's the point of reading a book. It takes you into a place, a world, a scenario that is foreign to you and lets you experience it for yourself. And Becky's world is fun (not to mention fairly miraculous - I'd like my financial troubles to be settles as fantastically as Becky's are). So I'll keep reading Kinsella's engaging books because even when Becky's driving me mad, I'm enjoying myself.
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