By Karin Slaughter Rating: 4 stars I picked this book up at the library because it purported to be a murder mystery set in Atlanta.  It was very much like reading an episode of The Closer, which is one of my favorite shows.  The lead GBI agent put together odd, disconnected clues to solve the […]

By: Elizabeth Gilbert Aside from the nasty divorce and the age of the author, I saw a lot of myself in this book. If you haven’t heard from press about the book or the movie (starring Julia Roberts), this is the story of a woman who spends a year in three places–Italy (“eat”), India (“pray”) […]

By Gabriel Garcia Marquez This book, a translation from the original Spanish, started slowly and became quite a nice story. It tells the tale of a man who suffered with unrequited love for over fifty years, and finally is reunited with the love of his life. If you’ve noticed, I’ve been reading many books translated […]

By John Wood, Founder of Room to Read. Rating: 4 stars. This was a great, true story of a senior-level manager at Microsoft who found his true passion and left a lucrative position to follow his dreams. It definitely touched on many aspects of my job, and made me think about why I do what […]

By: Laura Esquirel Rating: 3 stars. This book was generally good.  I think much was lost in the translation, and I wish I was fluent enough in Spanish to read it in the original language.  Although, without knowing how the original was written, it may be that the author’s writing style is just very choppy […]