Month: February 2010

Mutant by Peter Clement

While I have one book posted as what I’m reading right now, I’m actually usually reading 2-3 books at any one time. I picked up Mutant, a stripped cover book to read yesterday. It is a medical thriller. But I’m going to take a (web)page from my friend Charlotte, and not read books that I […]

Posted February 23, 2010 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

White Sands, Red Menace by Ellen Klages

This is the sequel to a book I reviewed a week or so ago called the Green Glass Sea. This picks up after the bomb has been dropped and the war is “over”. The German scientists, Von Braun and others are now here in America helping us with our rocket program. Our main characters, Dewey […]

Posted February 23, 2010 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

Deep Storm by Lincoln Child

I’ve been a fan of Lincoln Child since I borrowed the book The Relic from one of my high school students my first year of teaching. I’ve since read through all the books in that series that he co-wrote with Douglas Preston, and I’ve moved on to the books each of them has authored on […]

Posted February 22, 2010 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

The Guinea Pig Diaries by A.J. Jacobs

I’ve seen A.J. Jacobs’ books around the store, The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-it All. They always sounded really funny, but I just never picked it up to read. The Guinea Pig Diaries is new enough that we had it in hard cover so that I could check it out. And it was […]

Posted February 22, 2010 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

Take a Chance on Me by Susan Donovan

This was your basic romance book. I’d read another book by this author called He Loves Lucy. I enjoyed it, and this was okay, but almost too much your stereotypical romance. And one thing, it is like FOREVER before they actually have sex. It’s kind of a big tease, even in the chapter where they […]

Posted February 15, 2010 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages

This is a YA book, and I really enjoyed it. I’ve really gotten into the historical fiction lately, especially the YA stuff. This is set in 1943, during World War II. One of our main characters is Dewey Kerrigan. Her father is a scientist and they live in a town that doesn’t officially exist, Los […]

Posted February 15, 2010 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

Confessions of a Serial Dater by Michelle Cunnah

I’ve enjoyed another book by Michelle Cunnah called Call Waiting. Another bargain book find. Confessions of a Serial Dater was one I ordered in, but still a bargain book. She is one author on my list to check in the computer every so often for her books in bargain. Her other book 32AA I haven’t […]

Posted February 9, 2010 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner

I picked this up as a stripped copy at work a week or two ago. Recently, or ever since the movie The Other Boleyn Girl, I’ve began enjoying more historical fiction. This book is set in the time of Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution. It’s about a boy who is a gypsy and his […]

Posted February 7, 2010 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments