A light month for me, I actually had several DNF (did not finish) books. Oh well...can't win 'em all!
Paper Ghosts by Sarah Addison Allen - I love her magical realism, but this book is darker than her earlier works. I miss the whimsy. This was readable and engaging, just not light. A strong family drama set in a small town.
The Last Woman of Warsaw by Judy Batalion - We did this for our temple book group, and the group liked the mix of characters, the pre-war look at life in Warsaw, and the idea of Warsaw as a fashion and art capital of the world before the war. I liked but didn't love the writing style, which felt a little too non-fiction for me.
The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson - Okay, I kept hoping this would get better and it just didn't. This book didn't work for me, although I did stick it out to the end. I think that I needed more plot and less annoying characters.
The Thoroughbreds by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham - I actually liked this better than the first one (probably because it lacked some of the problematic elements of the first book like a student-teacher relationship that was very uncomfortable). I definitely liked how it wrapped up the stories of these characters! But it was a little bit of a slog to get through.
The Final Score by Lana Ferguson - Hockey romance. Just fine.
Stitched by Eli McCann - Found family of a group of older women who form their bonds in a small Utah town as a quilting group. Clever, interesting, and different - I liked this one!
Where I've been...
