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<![CDATA[Lee added 'Love Walked In']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18120911
to: Love Walked In (Paperback)byMarisa de los Santos
A caveat - my rating is applicable only to the first third of the book.
Every time I walked into the bookstore in recent months, this book caught my eye. Captivating title, and good summary on the book jacket. Unfortunately, a third of the way in, I still wasn't hooked. Cornelia's story was somewhat interesting, but not Clare's...and the two stories' completely distinct lines seemed more of a distraction than a plot set-up.
Maybe I'll give it another try in the future.
(revised October 2009)
So after reading the author's second book - Belong to Me - and loving it, I decided to give Love Walked In that second chance. And I liked it. The first third of the book is still a bit slow...a bit difficult to engage in...but somehow, loving the second book's narrative made it easier to stick with the story this time. I'm glad I tried it again.
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<![CDATA[Lee added 'Dead and Alive']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67327354
to: Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #3)byDean Koontz bookshelves: dean-koontz
After waiting an extra three years for this book, I was a bit disappointed. It was a good story...but not the great story (or ending) that I was hoping for. Oh well.
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<![CDATA[Lee added 'Dead Until Dark']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66092265
to: Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)byCharlaine Harris
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
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<![CDATA[Lee added 'Relentless: A Novel']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64915569
to: Relentless: A Novel (Hardcover)byDean Koontz bookshelves: dean-koontz
It took a bit for me to get into this story, but by the end, I couldn't put it down. Another well-written book by one of my favorite authors...
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<![CDATA[Lee added 'The Reader']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58245766
to: The Reader (Hardcover)byBernhard Schlink bookshelves: movies
I'll admit...I read this book because I wanted to see the movie, and I have this odd compulsion to always read the book before seeing the movie.
I'm glad I did, though. The book is written well, with a smooth flow that blends the story itself with a thoughtful secondary dialogue that subtly presents some of the bigger concepts that the story is set against. And I liked the questions posed - what's more important to a person, and when (if?) it's appropriate to interfere with someone else's choices.
It will be interesting to see how all of that translates into a screenplay.
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<![CDATA[Lee added 'The Stolen Child: A Novel']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55633768
to: The Stolen Child: A Novel (Hardcover)byKeith Donohue
The first few chapters of this book were a bit difficult to follow...and there were a few bits later in the book that were guess-able. I still found the story intriguing, though. A really good book that I'm glad to have read.
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<![CDATA[Lee added 'The Time Traveler's Wife']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53887289
to: The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback)byAudrey Niffenegger bookshelves: favorites
I really enjoyed this book! It takes some effort to keep the times and sequences connected, but the author has done a beautiful job of weaving the story together; and it raises some interesting questions about fate, choice and the limits (or lack thereof) of love.
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<![CDATA[Lee added 'The Mermaid Chair']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51740129
to: The Mermaid Chair (Paperback)bySue Monk Kidd
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<![CDATA[Lee added 'Quaker Summer']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50237080
to: Quaker Summer (Paperback)byLisa Samson
Sometimes, a decent book is made really good by a theme and story that connect with the circumstances of the reader's life at that moment in time. For example, when I read "Eat Pray Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert for the first time, I have no doubt that I appreciated it so much more because I was recently divorced and could relate so much more intimately to the things she wrote about.
Reading this book, I had the same type of appreciation. I'm at a point in life where I really relate to the doubt and inner turmoil that the main character is experiencing in her faith. That doesn't mean I wouldn't have liked the book had I read it some other time. But reading it now - in this week - there were passages that touched my heart and left an impact much stronger than may have happened otherwise.
All in all, it's a lovely story about one woman's effort to make her corner of the world more genuine and real.
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