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As she shifts between the perspectives of half a dozen characters, Masha Hamilton explores geopolitical conflict through the individual experiences of a kidnapped relief worker and his wife, two soldiers and their families, and a deposed political leader refusing to be exiled from his native land. T...
This book gradually became more and more annoying to me. By the time I had about 100 pages left to read, I just wanted it to be over. I'll give it two stars because the writing itself was pretty decent. The one redeeming thing about it is the part dealing with Sonny Hirt. I liked him, and I like...
When Carol Meitzner wakes up in the middle of the night she is as sure as anything that her son, Jonas, is in danger. Even though she tries to keep calm and give her 21-year old a healthy amount of space in which to live his life and make his own decisions, in the back of her mind she knows that it’...
A librarian takes on a volunteer project in Kenya, working with the camel bookmobile. The premise is more interesting than the actual story. I couldn't quite figure out what made it so pedestrian. Was it the lack of character background? The people and places never quite came alive for me. Oh we...
Certain books are allowed to be less than perfect. For example, any book about librarians or book collecting or even writing is such a welcome publishing event that I give it some slack; just the mere fact that someone decided to choose these as subjects is enough to allow the author some latitude. ...
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