Since my last post I’ve actually finished two books, so, I’ll knock them both out right now!<\/p>\n
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‘Just After Sunset’ – Stephen King<\/strong><\/p>\n Stephen King’s “newest” (2008) collection of short stories. I’m an old school Stephen King fan, and really haven’t enjoyed all of his newest novels, so it took me a while to get around to reading this one.<\/p>\n I loved it. I had forgotten what an amazing story teller he is, and I so enjoyed the short story format. It’s been a while since I’ve sat an read an entire book of shorts by one author, so I wasn’t sure I’d enjoy the style, having gotten so used to the long novels I’ve been reading.<\/p>\n There were so many excellent stories in this book though, he seemed to focus on 9\/11, and 9\/11 “like” events, and how they effected people mentally. There were some interesting spins on how people might deal with something of that magnitude. A few of the stories were just vintage King, and wonderful. I was really happy with this book, it’s got me back on a King kick though, the next book I read was great, but I missed the suspense\/evil behavior I had gotten into with this one!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ‘Land of a Hundred Wonders’ – Leslie Kagen<\/strong><\/p>\n Some how, through some crazy, amazing turns over the past few years I’ve managed to meet and correspond with some of my favorite authors. A batch of them live in the Wisconsin area, and are a pack of amazing, talented, and kind hearted women. These women have not only entertained my team mate\/book club buddy, but for some reason been kind enough to introduce us to MORE authors, and provide us with signed copies of their books for our yearly auction.<\/p>\n Sandra Kring is one of those authors, this year after many back and forth e-mails, my team mate got to meet her (and said she was amazing, we love her books, so we behave a touch like groupies with authors, sad…) and she suggested we read her friend, Leslie Kagen (who also sent us signed books! Yay!).<\/p>\n This is the first book I’ve read of hers, but not her<\/span> first book, I will be reading the rest though. I love this style, if you’ve read Kris Radish, Jacquelin Mitchard, or Sandra Kring, you’ll know the style I mean. I don’t want to call it “Chick Lit” because it’s generally stronger, and more meaningful, but they do center on relationships, more often then not female.<\/p>\n ‘Land of a Hundred Wonders’ is set in the south in the 70’s, it touched on so many themes, racism, the war, drug use, and family tragedies. The main character is a girl who has suffered from brain damage, and it was really interesting to read from her point of view. The author does a excellent job of explaining the thoughts in Gibbie’s head, how she would think them, well giving enough to you, that you generally have a better idea of what’s going on then she does. It’s the third time recently I’ve read books from a different sort of perspective, and I find I get really pulled in. I like trying to understand that view point.<\/p>\n At it’s core, it was a love story, but a love story between many people, it moved quickly, but not so quickly that I felt cheated. Like I said, I’ll read her other books for sure. I think they’ll make nice summer reading material out on my deck at night after the boy is asleep.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since my last post I’ve actually finished two books, so, I’ll knock them both out right now! ‘Just After Sunset’ – Stephen King Stephen King’s “newest” (2008) collection of short stories. I’m an old school Stephen King fan, and … Continue reading