Not one of Wally Lamb's best books......in fact, when considering the greatness that is Wally Lamb, who set the bare extremely high with works like "she's come undone" and "I know this much is true" this might have actually been his worst so far, that's not to say it was a bad book but I was expecti...
I can see what the author was striving for with this story: a wry look at the complex life of a family, as seen through the eyes of a naive boy on the cusp of adolescence, with a hearty dose of 1960’s nostalgia via endless pop culture references. Unfortunately, it was predictable and dull, and didn’...
I’d had this book on my tbr list since its inception time, so a loonnnggg time. So long that I can’t actually remember what attracted me to it, apart from it being on Opera’s book club. She’s Come Undone follows Dolores Price from age 13 until her mid-thirties. During this time Dolores goes to hel...
From Goodreads: In The Hour I First Believed, Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work and embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching back many generations, and the questions of faith that lie at the heart of everyday life. The result is an extraordinary tour de force, at ...
4.5 stars.I often find it a lot harder to review the books I really liked than the ones I didn't, so I've been sitting on this review for weeks.But I really loved this book. There were a couple things about it that annoyed me, so I'll get those out of the way first. I didn't like that so many of the...
Wishin and Hopin: A Christmas Story is a fictional novel set in 1964. LBJ and Lady Bird are in the White House, Meet the Beatles is on everyone's turntable, and 10-yr old Felix Funicello (distant cousin of the iconic Annette Funicello!) is doing his best to navigate 5th grade-easier said than done w...
I usually avoid family saga books because they're oftenA. 1000 pages longB. PlotlessC. Insufferably boringD. All of the aboveBecause of my bias against these books, this one sat on my shelf for nearly a year before I picked it up. I shouldn't have waited so long to read it. I actually liked it a lot...
We Are Water is a family story, of hurt and healing, acceptance and moving forward. It was quite good, written in alternating POVs, but mostly that of Annie and Orion Oh, an estranged couple. There are many flashbacks, but the present day story revolves around the upcoming nuptials between Annie O...
I just found out that this is being made into a movie, bearing the same title, to be released on 23 November 2014, in time for the holiday season. It has the potential to be a contemporary movie equivalent of 'Miracle on 34th Street' and 'It's A Wonderful Life', though it does not have Santa in it, ...
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