#22

Depressing collection of short stories. There were a few gems in here including What have you Done, Rollingwood, and The Loyalty Protocol. 

#21

A good book about a mother and son who decide to start a two person book club while she is going through cancer treatments. Some of the books they read and discussed gave me some good ideas for some books to read in the future. I'm sorry to my mom who thought I was reading this because my cancer had returned and I wasn't telling her. 

#20

This was the May selection for book club. The author is a pompous ass who has an extreme disliking of Christian groups helping in Africa and international aid groups helping in Africa. While some of his stories about traveling overland through the country were good, he just comes off as better then you. No one travels as well as he does, knows more important people in Africa then he does, or sees the problems the way he does. And enough already with the stupid erotic book he keeps mentioning he is writing. 

#19

I was glad to be done with this one. A brutal book from the first page until the very end. No real redeeming quality of the characters in the book. Everyone seems to lose, be confused, struggle mightily and then die. Or, if you were a lucky one, die first and skip all the other unpleasant stuff. Two stars on the Goodreads ranking. 

#18

This was a light a breezy read I received in Book Riots Quarterly Box #2.   I felt the author was pretty snarky throughout. She seemed to repeat the same jabs at the same authors over and over. What could have been a fun collection of short essays on the love of books and reading, soon grew rather tiresome. Maybe 2 stars on Goodreads. 

#17

This was the selection for the April Book Club. Not a real big fan of it. Maybe I just didn't get it? Too many people and too many points of view written over the course of several decades. Had to keep rereading previous chapters to keep things straight. Maybe I will appreciate it more after we discuss it on Saturday night. 

#16

Falling a little behind on my reviews. Here is book 16 for the year. This was suggested on my book lovers page a day calendar I recieved in Book Riots book box #1. It was an interesting read, written from many different peoples point of view in the family. Took a hundred pages or so to figure it all out and keep everyone straight. It seemed by the end it was just one long coming out story of the 16 year old girl. Would like to read a sequel to see what happens to the family.