Reviews by Kay K. (Oshkosh, WI)

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The Fields
The Fields: A Novel
by Erin Young
The Fields (11/21/2021)
Riley Fisher finds herself in a corn field that leads to a criminal investigation that takes her not only on a terrifying murder mystery but also on a personal journey that has continued to haunt her and her family. I found Riley to be an intriguing and multifaceted …more
Appleseed
Appleseed
by Matt Bell
Oh my! Appleseed Confusion (4/10/2021)
Matt Bell's Appleseed took some time to read. Covering three different time periods, 1800's America, 2070's America, and a 1,000 years from now. The connection between the three times took almost to the very end to figure out. The 1800's lacked verisimilitude. The reader is …more
The Widow Queen
The Widow Queen: The Bold #1
by Elzbieta Cherezinska
The Widow Queen (1/13/2021)
I enjoyed this book once I got past trying to keep the names of people and places straight. They are foreign and made it challenging at first. If you like the History Channels series The Vikings, you will love this book. Fans of Philippa Gregory would like this book. It has …more
Migrations
Migrations: A Novel
by Charlotte McConaghy
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy (4/19/2020)
This may be my favorite book this year! Beautiful language describing hope and despair in a future world that has lost most of its wild life. As Franny navigates her own last migration following the last migratory bird, the Arctic Tern, her life and love unfolds through her …more
Daughter of the Reich
Daughter of the Reich: A Novel
by Louise Fein
Daughter of the Reich (3/31/2020)
I enjoyed this book. The author portrayed the main character with understanding and showed that love can overcome ignorance. The reader also gets a glimpse of the psyche of the German people under Hitler who followed him. It's a love story, somewhat contrived, but …more
The Women with Silver Wings
The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
by Katherine Sharp Landdeck
Women Took to the Skies (2/10/2020)
Katherine Sharp Landdeck has thoroughly researched a forgotten segment of WWII's history, the women who flew and received little recognition or compensation. Well organized, and easy to read, the reader learns about the many women aviators who flew during WWII to help the …more
The Kinship of Secrets
The Kinship of Secrets
by Eugenia Kim
A Kinship of Secrets by Eugenia Kim (10/30/2018)
Sometimes keeping secrets is the best way to love another person. In A Kinship of Secrets, Inja is left behind in Korea with her Grandmother and Uncle. Her parents take their other daughter, Miran with them to the United States. They mean to be away for only a couple of …more
Meet Me at the Museum
Meet Me at the Museum
by Anne Youngson
Meet Me Where? (4/18/2018)
Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson is unusual in that the entire story unfolds through correspondence between two people who have never seen each other, one in England and one in Denmark. I thought the premise of starting this correspondence because of a prehistoric man, …more
The Life of the World to Come
The Life of the World to Come
by Dan Cluchey
Leo's World to Come (4/15/2016)
Leo Brice meets Fiona Maeberle and he becomes alive! Life with Fiona is perfect and Leo believes it will last forever. But of course, it doesn't! Leo is no longer alive without Fiona, and so Cluchey takes us on a journey with Leo to find out just what is being alive all …more
He Wanted the Moon
He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him
by Mimi Baird with Eve Claxton
Better title: Lost on the Moon (2/24/2015)
He wanted the Moon was both disturbing and intriguing. Dr. Baird endured so much, and that he may have been so close to his own possible treatment was devastating. His own personal account of his ordeal puts the reader right into the mental hospital. A reader couldn't get …more
The Rabbit Back Literature Society
The Rabbit Back Literature Society
by Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen
But Where is Laura White? (11/30/2014)
This quote from the book sums up this book for me, "It wasn't possible to see an image of the whole person at once, because our point of observation was at one point on the axis of time, and the thing observed was shot through with innumerable points of observation." …more
Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Island of a Thousand Mirrors
by Nayomi Munaweera
Island of a Thousand Mirrors (9/3/2014)
The story of the island of Sri Lanka is an old story. It's about one group of people holding another smaller group of people down until the group fights back. Munaweera was able to bring both the Sinhala and the Tamil alive in her book through strong female characters. She …more
Accidents of Marriage
Accidents of Marriage
by Randy Susan Meyers
Can Marriage Be an Accident? (7/14/2014)
Is who you marry just an "accident" and if it is can it be survived? Meyers book explores a marriage through the awakenings of its characters. Maddy awakens from a coma on one level and on a deeper level she awakens from her accident of marriage. Emma, a teen, is awakening …more
The Fortune Hunter
The Fortune Hunter
by Daisy Goodwin
Sometimes True Love Prevails (4/18/2014)
At first I thought the premise of this book was not a feasible one. It was pretty slow in the beginning so I didn't think I was going to like it. Then in the author notes I found that the characters were based on real people and real events. That made the story more …more
The House We Grew Up In
The House We Grew Up In
by Lisa Jewell
A House Can Define a Family (3/29/2014)
The House We Grew Up In is the story of a family rooted to a house through Lorelei, the mother. Lorelei is a spirit that delights in finding beauty in every little thing, and can't let go of the memories that "things" hold for her. When a devastating event occurs, the happy …more
Safe with Me
Safe with Me
by Amy Hatvany
SAFE WITH ME (12/5/2013)
This is a book about women, three of them, Hannah, Olivia, and Maddie. My connection as a mother drew me into this book. I was crying by the end of the first chapter and yet the book is really about healing. Hannah's journey through grief. Olivia's quest for freedom from …more
Coming Clean
Coming Clean: A Memoir
by Kimberly Rae Miller
Coming Clean - There is hope for all of us! (7/10/2013)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Kimberly shared her life in a way that can be an inspiration to all. It was a message of love even under a pile of paper and trash. She gives the reader insight into a life we have recently glimpsed on reality TV shows about hoarders. I found …more
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
by Therese Anne Fowler
A Woman trying to find her way, Zelda (2/28/2013)
Therese Anne Fowler gives the reader a well researched fictionalized account of the life of Zelda Fitzgerald in Z, A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. I came to know Zelda in these pages as a woman struggling with her own identity. Married to a driven to-be- perfect husband and …more
The Spy Lover
The Spy Lover
by Kiana Davenport
The Spy Lover by Kiana Davenport (12/20/2012)
This book would be a civil war enthusiast's dream. The historical elements are detailed in their brutal reality. The underlying story of a Chinese immigrant, Johnny Tom, fighting as a Union soldier and his daughter spying for the Union as a battle field nurse brings home to …more
The Roots of the Olive Tree
The Roots of the Olive Tree: A Novel
by Courtney Miller Santo
The Roots of the Olive Tree (or secret lives among the olives) (7/25/2012)
The secrets in this book are what lured me in and kept me reading. The Keller women were real people and they all have secrets, bigger secrets than most of us. Anna becomes the oldest living person alive and her secret may be part of the answer of why these women seem not …more
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