I'm a huge slacker :-)

It's taken me entirely too long to finish up this last book and I have no plausible excuses except that I'm incredibly lazy. :-)  That being said, on to the review!!

The Meaning of Night: A Confession was every bit the Victorian mystery that it proclaimed itself to be on the book cover.  Chock full of suspense, romance, intrigue, and heartbreak!  The only complaint that I can give is that it was a slooooow workup to the main "meat" of the story.  For a book that's 695 pages long, it didn't get really interesting until around the 300 page mark. The first few pages started out with a BANG and then there was a lot of background information. A LOT.  If you're looking for an epic length story that will provide you with enough detail to build your own model of Victorian England, then this book is most definitely for you.

The next book was highly recommended to me by the bestie.  I'm sure you've seen the film version of it with Natalie Portman.  It is of course Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts.  If I remember correctly, it's about a young girl that gets knocked up and then has her baby in the town's Wal-Mart.  That's all I remember.  However, if Krystle is recommending it AND it was in Oprah's Book Club I'm sure I can't go wrong. :-)

Happy reading, everyone!!

PS I promise to be less lazy!

PSS Or at least I promise to try not to be so lazy. :-)

Yep, epically bad idea

When I first bought The Fault in Our Stars, it was simply because I had great admiration for the author and wanted to show my support.  I had heard from a lot of people that it was very well-written and that he was known for breaking hearts with his words.  These people were not wrong.  It's no secret (to those that know me off of the Internets) that someone that I loved very much was beaten by cancer.  She was young and vibrant and simply Jessica.  I've read other books about cancer and each of them has stabbed at me in differing ways.  This one focused on the dying part of cancer and not really the fighting part.  Yes, there was the "battle with cancer" aspect but the main character has terminal cancer and she knows that she is simply biding time.  She's accepted her fate.  I did cry while reading this book.  All I could think about were those short yet endless months of my friend's last days and how at the end it wasn't really a fight anymore.  She had accepted her fate.  It wasn't so easy for the rest of us.  Still isn't.

Oh the review.  The book was excellent.  I highly recommend it but I do caution that it will cause you to feel.

The next book in the rotation is a Victorian murder mystery with a bewitching love story (or so the back of the book says).  I chose it because there's a dude with a top hat on the cover.  I'm a sucker for top hats. The book is The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox.