“I just bought us a B&B on eBay!”
With 31 notes from Bitsy, how could you go wrong? While this is not strictly considered a southern read as it takes place in the Missouri Ozarks, I think this small town community could be placed anywhere in the south. (Being from Texas it is sometimes hard [...]
Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
Bitsy’s Bait & BBQ
Posted in book review, books, challenges, reviews, tagged bitsy's bait & bbq, fiction, pamela morsi, southern reading challenge, southern reading challenge three on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen – Review
Posted in book review, books, challenges, reviews, tagged fiction, magical realism, Sarah Addison Allen, southern reading challenge, The Sugar Queen on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
Southern Reading Challenge Three #1
Fiction, Published 2008
Read June 2009
4/5
From the Cover:
Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season, she’s a sorry excuse for a southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her hidden closet.
Review:
Once again [...]
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink – Review
Posted in book review, books, challenges, tagged bernhard schlink, fiction, german novels, historical fiction, holocaust, lit flicks challenge, oprah's book club, the reader on May 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Translated from German by Carol Brown Janeway
Historical Fiction, Published 1997
Read Feb 2009
3/5
From the Cover:
Set in postwar Germany, The Reader is a provocative, morally challenging, and deeply moving novel about a young boy’s erotic awakening in a clandestine love affair with a mysterious older woman. Falling ill on his way home from [...]
Naughty Neighbor by Janet Evanovich
Posted in book review, books, reviews, tagged fiction, janet evanovich, naughty neighbor on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Naughty Neighbor by Janet Evanovich
Fiction, Published 1992, 2008
Read May 2009
3.5/5
Louisa Brannigan’s neighbor was driving her crazy. He snatched her newspaper and listened through her townhouse walls. But when she got fired from her government job, Pete was there, asking her to join his undercover operation. So Louisa was hopelessly entangled – professionally speaking – with [...]
Appaloosa
Posted in reviews, tagged appaloosa, fiction, robert b. parker, western, westerns on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker
Everett Hitch Trilogy #1
Fiction – Western, Published 2005
Read March 2009
4/5
From the Cover:
When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a town suffering at the hands of a renegade rancher who’s already left the city marshal and one of his deputies dead. Cole and Hitch are used to cleaning [...]
American Wife: Review
Posted in reviews, tagged American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld, fiction, Laura Bush on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Fiction, Published 2008
Read March 2009
3/5
From the Cover:
A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end up in the White House, married to the president. In her small Wisconsin hometown she learns the virtues of politeness, but a tragic accident when [...]
Shopaholic Blues
Posted in book review, books, reviews, tagged confessions of a shopaholic, fiction, shopaholic series, shopaholic takes manhattan, shopaholic ties the knot, sophie kinsella on February 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
With the new movie about to come out, I thought I would do a triple deck review for the first three books in the Shopaholic series. Rebecca Bloomwood is just a hoot. In her first adventures in Confessions of a Shopaholic, she is a London socialite who just can’t say no to a good deal. [...]
The Thirteenth Tale
Posted in book review, books, reviews, tagged diane setterfield, fiction, the thirteenth tale on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Audible, Narrated by Bianca Amato and Jill Tanner
Fiction, Published 2006
Audiobook Nov 2008, Read Dec 2006
4.5/5
From the Cover:
Margaret Lea works in her father’s antiquarian bookshop where her fascination for the biographies of the long-dead has led her to write them herself. She gets a letter from one of the most famous [...]
Agnes and the Hitman
Posted in reviews, tagged fiction, agnes and the hitman, jennifer crusie, bob mayer on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Agnes and the Hitman
by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
Fiction, Published 2007
Read November 2008
4/5
From the Cover:
Take one food writer named Cranky Agnes, add a hitman named Shane, mix them together with a Southern mob wedding, a missing necklace, two annoyed flamingos, and a dog named Rhett, and you’ve got a recipe for a sexy, hilarious novel [...]
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Posted in audiobook, book review, books, challenges, reviews, tagged audiobook, banned books, fiction, harper lee, historical fiction, historical fiction reading challenge, pulitzer prize, sissy spacek, to kill a mockingbird on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To Kill A Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Fiction, Published 1960
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – 1961
Read Sept-Oct 2008
5/5
From the Cover:
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South — and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird [...]

