Reviews from BT

Now it's time to hear from BT and see what she's been reading and what she's thinking.....

She just finished The Idiot by by Elif Batuman. It was a Pulitzer finalist, but she felt disoriented half the time. She doesn't recommend it although it gets decent reviews. (Maybe not everyone loves it since it's available now for $1.99 on Kindle.)

BT thinks Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason is an excellent read. A WWI med student serves as field doctor. I'm adding it to my wish list now.

And she also read In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume. Her thoughts on this one were that it was kinda jumbled like she asked different authors to take and develop a character and then attached them together in a novel. Doesn't sound so great, huh?

Finally, she doesn't feel that Ken Follet's book, The Third Twin, was up to standards. Did he really write this one?

Thanks, BT!

The Heavens May Fall by Allen Eskens

Who doesn't love a good who-dunnit with a vulnerable detective and lots of twists and turns? This was a fast read, and one that had me guessing til the end. Yes, parts were predictable and a few things were unrealistic, I'm sure. But it still made for a good read. Or I think this would probably make a good book to listen to in the car.

I won't give anything away..... but a wealthy woman has died and the prime suspect is her husband. Proving it was him isn't easy especially when there are other secrets that come out along the way.

Just all fun without heavy lifting. -June

Dear Mrs. Bird by A. J. Pearce

Oh no! Not another World War II book! Yes, another one but with a slightly different viewpoint.

This is rather tough to describe. It's about a young girl in London during the war. She wants to be a war correspondent at a newspaper, but ends up typing responses to an advice column in a women's magazine. She also volunteers at the local fire station where calls come in at night after the bombings.

The book is a combination of romance and lightheartedness at times and then the gruesomeness of war at other times. It's also one of those stories where everything goes wrong at about the 90% mark and all seems to be lost...... and then suddenly everything turns around (quite predictably) and there's a happy ending.

It's interesting to read about women's roles in London during the Blitz and the death and destruction the citizens endured. All very eye-opening. So it's hard to describe the book as a "light" story, but it is a bit of a romance/chick lit kind of book. - June