The Book: Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
The Story: For the first time ever, I’m just going to copy the “teaser” on the back of the book:
“We don’t want to tell you what happens in this book. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know enough [...]
The Book: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson
The Story: Thompson and his Samoan attorney have, “two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, [...]
The Book: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red, edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph. D.
The Story: This is the diary of a young woman living in Seattle around the turn of the century. She is courted by and then marries a rich oil tycoon named John Rimbauer. He is in the process [...]
The Book: Mister Monday: The Keys to the Kingdom #1, by Garth Nix
The Story: The main character of this book, Arthur, suffers a should-be fatal asthma attack and is visited by some creepy dudes who babble off some crazy stuff and then give him a book and a “key” that looks like the minute hand [...]
The Book: Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
The Story: I probably don’t have to explain this one too much…
A crazy old guy decides to clone dinosaurs and put them on an island as an amusement park. They are all girl-dinos and they are pretty sure that they have control over the whole situation. A couple of [...]
The Books: The Jessica Darling Series, by Megan McCaferty
The Story: Jessica Darling is a snarky, brainy, opinionated high school junior when we meet her in the first book. She is devastated and lonely because her best friend, Hope has just moved away and she’s flying solo. She is a virgin and, while she plans to [...]
The Book: We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver
The Story: In letter after letter to her estranged husband, Franklin, Eva recaps their life together from start to finish. In her first letter, Eva tells the reader how it is going to end: with their son, Kevin, taking part in a school shooting and [...]
The Book: Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach
The Story: The title kind of says it all. The author went on this big journey to find out what happened to bodies that were donated to science. She had kind of figured (and I had to) that most of them ended up in [...]
The Book: Possible Side Effects, by Augusten Burroughs
The Story: This is a book of essays by the same guy who wrote Running with Scissors. If you’ve read that, you have some idea of what to expect from him. If not, let me tell you.
This guy had a crazy (no seriously, his mom was in and [...]
The Book: Handle with Care, by Jodi Picoult
The Story: During an ultrasound at 27 weeks, Charlotte and her husband Sean are told that their baby has a disease that makes her bones very, very brittle. She already has seven broken bones and if she doesn’t die at birth will have many more. They are heartbroken, [...]