Three Books
Don’t remember much about except that it involves ghosts and seeing dead people in 1880s Missouri.
A definite recommend
An end of the world novel that flops. It was actually pretty interesting for a while and then it fizzles into nothing. The whole thing the team investigates never really reaches a solution and everybody else in the world just dies.
Not recommended
I spent almost the entire book angry at every character. I couldn’t stand a one, except the huge eagles and a dog. Everyone else got on my nerves.
Not recommended
Review: First Bite
This was a diet book masquerading as a history of how we eat. She buys into the obesity myth big time and it all goes downhill from there.
Not recommended
Review: The Cellar
When I first read the blurb, I thought it would be about slavery in modern day England. It ended up a cross between Rosemary’s Baby and The Cask of Amontillado. Anything else would give it away. It didn’t come off as horror so much as what Ira Levin was attempting in Rosemary’s.
A definite recommend
Review: Church of Spies
Everyone thinks that Pope Pius XII collaborated with the Nazis and didn’t save the Jews. This book shows what really happened between Pius, Hitler, and the Catholic Church. It also shows how Pius set out to have Hitler killed. Excellent research even if a little hard to follow who’s who in the beginning.
A definite recommend
Review: Big Girl
Kelsey Miller lays out how she became an intuitive eater though doesn’t cover much of her shift in eating habits. I’ve actually read one of her articles on it before so she probably has more of her journey in those articles than here in the book. She does cover how her eating became disordered. And sometimes gives too much detail about her romantic life.
A recommend
Review : Lord of Ten Thousand Years The Paper Dragon
The end of the Manchu dynasty in China. Or the last few decades of the 19th and early 20th centuries in China. It was interesting but the writing needs some work. Sometimes it felt more like a report than a story.
A recommend with reservations
New Year, New Books; Salem Witch Trials
Sorry, never did do the whole top ten post I meant to do. I’ve been battling my depression and reading has been hard. There are times when reading doesn’t interest me at all. But I have been reading.
I enjoyed this one. I knew little about the Salem Witch trials and this one gives you a good history without preaching or trying to solve why it happened. I still don’t understand why so many on Goodreads hated it other the author doesn’t provide a smoking gun as to why the accusations and trials really occured. She does cover and go over the world and how it was in 1692 with things like how Puritanism and Calvinism were psychologically debilitating, the frontier living, lack of government, the excessive litigation (the Puritans put our litigatious society to shame or really started the whole thing), the mind numbing daily lives, constant threat of attack, etc. The author weaves it all together to tell the events of what happened and why we will never truly know why they happened.
A definite recommend
The Library Made Me Do It 