Reviews by Terye B. (Scotts Valley, CA)

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We'll Prescribe You a Cat
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
by Syou Ishida
Let the Cats Heal You (8/7/2024)
This was a very enjoyable book. I've just recently started reading contemporary books from Japan. I loved the tone of the book, and the subject. There was intrigue as to do these health care workers really exist? How did they find them. All people seeking help were not …more
A Piece of the World
A Piece of the World: A Novel
by Christina Baker Kline
A Piece of the World (1/4/2017)
A marvelous story where we learn of the circumstances surrounding Andrew Wyeth's masterpiece, Christina's World. Christina Olson has lived at the farm house all her life, kept there by limited opportunities afforded her due to a mysterious childhood illness. Andrew Wyeth's …more
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
by Scott Stambach
Ivan Isaenko Becomes Visible (7/20/2016)
We are introduced to Ivan Isaenko by way of his diary. Ivan is a patient at the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children, which treats the medical conditions of children suffering from the effects of catastrophic radiation following a nuclear explosion in 1986. Ivan suffers …more
The Secret Language of Stones
The Secret Language of Stones: A Daughters of La Lune Novel
by M. J. Rose
The Secret Language of Stones (4/18/2016)
I love when a novel transport you to a time in history, smoothly, effortlessly, and M. J. Rose did just that with this novel. I found myself easily transported to Paris in the 1900's. I loved the idea of the stones holding messages for loved ones. The writing was crisp and …more
A Good Hard Look
A Good Hard Look: A Novel
by Ann Napolitano
Absorbing book (5/2/2011)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I was transfixed from the beginning. I began the story wanting to learn about Flannery O'Conner and found so much more. The tone was exceptional to me, it drew me in with it's Southern charm. Highly recommend this book.
Losing My Cool
Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture
by Thomas Chatterton Williams
How cool is cool? (4/11/2010)
This was a fascinating story on so many levels. A young black man struggles for his identity and finds it in the black culture of Hip Hop and BET television. While fitting into a crowd, a group he never gets to know his true self. When away at college he finds himself and …more
Still Life
Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy
by Melissa Milgrom
By the skin of their teeth (2/9/2010)
It's enjoyable reading and learning about a topic you haven't read about before. That's what I thought as I started this book. The book would have been better suited being told in some sort of linear fashion. I enjoyed the first chapter quite a bit, but the continuous back …more
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