45/100

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

My review

rating: 1 of 5 stars
I tried with this book. Really, I did. I loved the title and was hopeful for the premise. I tried listening on audiobook but it was absolutely dreadful. It was incredibly boring and basically just told about how teachers and textbooks are stupid. The person reading the book put such emphasis on the word TEXTBOOK (I word that was used half a million times) that it started driving me nuts. I only got to disk three and then had to say forget about it.


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44/100

Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman

My review

rating: 3 of 5 stars
This was standard Jonathan Kellerman fare. It was good and held my interest, but nothing really blew me away. I think the fact that it took me a while to read made it get a little confusing at times.


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43/100

Thanksgiving by Janet Evanovich

My review

rating: 3 of 5 stars
I really contemplated giving this a two star rating, but only because I love Janet Evanovich and this just wasn't up to par. I understand that it is one of her older books but it was really fluffy and predictable and there were even spelling mistakes. I gave it three stars because it was an easy read that I didn't want to put down.


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42/100

Tara Road by Maeve Binchy

My review

rating: 3 of 5 stars
This book took me FOREVER to read. It wasn't bad, I just think it took some time to get into it and between Christmas, and Daisy, and everything else I just couldn't keep up with it. Therefore, when I did pick it up I just wasn't that interested. But by the time I really dedicated myself to reading it, it was not bad. I started to care about the characters and what happened to them. I think the plot was very formulaic and had been done before, but it was still a decent read. I felt like there were some loose ends but it may have cheapened the story a little to tie them up.


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41/100

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

My review

rating: 3 of 5 stars
I wanted to read this book because it was about the Plague, and for whatever reason, I find that really interesting. The beginning was a bit hard to get into, but the story of one woman who loses everyone, and a town's hysteria was intriguing. It had the potential to be slow at times, but really wasn't. As expected, there were many heartbreaking moments.


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40/100

But Inside I'm Screaming by Elizabeth Flock

My review

rating: 2 of 5 stars
For some reason, I found this book to be fluffy. A woman tries to commit suicide and then winds up in a mental institution. She fights everyone that tries to help her because she doesn't think she should be there. It vaguely touches on her abusive relationship with her husband and her troubled childhood but I felt like it never really delved into enough depth. The scenes in the institution did not really seem deep enough either.


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39/100

Blueberry Muffin Murder by Joanne Fluke

My review

rating: 3 of 5 stars
I choose this book because it was recommended as an audio book. I thought it was a cute who-done-it that was not as good as a Stephanie Plum book, but of the same vain.



Hannah Swensen owns a cookie shop. A famous tv cook is found murdered in Hannah's shop and this forces her to close down until the murderer can be found. Rather than sit by and wait, Hannah chooses to investigate herself and finds more dead bodies along the way.



Again, it was cute and when I went home I found myself wanting to go back in the car to see what happened. I found the reader's pronunciation of "cookie" really annoying for some reason. The story was also pretty predictable.


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