Reviews by Janet R. (Visalia, CA)

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Dirt Creek
Dirt Creek: A Novel
by Hayley Scrivenor
Australian town mysteries (3/6/2022)
Dirt Creek is a fast read and encompasses the lives of several characters who are involved in two dramas - one involving a death and one involving drugs. The stories are skillfully intertwined so that they catch each other at various times in the book. Schrivenor is a …more
The Sunset Route
The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
by Carrot Quinn
Trains and self discovery (7/10/2021)
When I received this book for "First Impressions", I was disappointed by the sub title, "Freight Trains, Forgiveness and Freedom on the Rails in the American West" I had a vision of a slow, plodding narrative filled with the word "I". I was delighted to find that the book …more
Morningside Heights
Morningside Heights: A Novel
by Joshua Henkin
Intertwined lives (4/26/2021)
Forgo vs. forego; sleight vs. slight; principle vs. principal; flout vs. flaunt; grizzly vs. grisly; mantel vs. mantle; anaticlimactic not anticlimactic - why do these word pairs matter? Do they matter at all? Professor Spence Robin's son Arlo knows that they do not matter, …more
I Want You to Know We're Still Here
I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir
by Esther Safran Foer
History is Memory; Memory is History (12/6/2019)
Like many other 12-year-old girls, I read The Diary of Anne Frank. I was deeply moved and saddened by the book, but I had no idea the magnitude of the terrible, horrific price paid by 6 million Jews with their lives during World War II. I never wondered what happened to the …more
Anatomy of a Miracle
Anatomy of a Miracle
by Jonathan Miles
What constituites a miracle? (1/27/2018)
Jonathan Miles' new novel, Anatomy of a Miracle is referenced by the author as both a true story and a novel. Fiction or non-fiction? Like most novels it is a blending of both what could have happened and what did actually happen. Miles' writing is dense and none of it is …more
The Children
The Children
by Ann Leary
The Children by Ann Leary (5/2/2016)
The Children is a humorous, wandering story of a family as it adjusts to the death of its patriarch, Whit Whitman. Each character is a little off-center, a little quirky. The plot meanders through the spring and summer leading up to one son's marriage. However, in the midst …more
Enduring Courage
Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed
by John F. Ross
Not For Me (4/5/2014)
Although Enduring Courage starts out with an interesting biographical sketch of Eddie Rickenbacker's early life and his increasing interest in engine and racing, by page 51 I was totally bored and had to quit.

With that in mind, my review may be too biased and uninformed and …more
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