I vacillated between 3 and 4 stars and finally went with three for a few different reasons. For starters, the title, while super cute, is a bit misleading. I picked the book up off of the library shelves knowing nothing about it, looked at the title, and flipped through the photos section. Lots of pictures of the author’s adorable small children and wife hanging out in Churchill, Manitoba. Looked cute, heartwarming, a family adventure. However, the book actually goes in a lot of different directions, […]
Dead Like Me Lite
Lana Harvey lives in Limbo City (a place where all souls of all religions go), she’s a reaper (that doesn’t cause death but has to shepherd souls to their respective afterlife). The problem with Lana is that after 300 years, she’s still not inspired by the work and makes sure to do the maximum minimum. Unfortunately for her, her boss is the Grim Reaper and shockingly, he has just given her a promotion that involves a task that must be completed or Limbo City and […]
As if they know they can break
Wow. I just. Wow. This book held me in it’s thrall from the moment I read the first lines: Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet. Lydia, the favorite daughter of James and Marilyn Lee is missing early one spring morning. There’s denial, upset, worry, then panic until Lydia is found at the bottom of the lake. The story skips ahead and back, crisscrossing along the lives of the Lee family, beginning with the unlikely romance and marriage of James, a Chinese-American graduate student and […]
Frances and Lil did a bad, bad thing
Set after the First World War in suburban London, Frances and her mother are having a rough go of it. Her two brothers were lost to that conflict and not long after her father died, revealing serious financial issues. To keep their home, the women must take in “paying guests”, a young married couple. Eventually Frances embarks on a torrid affair with the wife, Lillian. It doesn’t end well. Though I loathe the over use of the term “spoiler”, I respect its power. There will […]