Book it! July/August
I haven’t had as much of a chance to read in the past two months, partly because I’ve been going, going, going, and by the time I get to bed and play a word on my Words with Friends games, I’ve been tired. The other part is that I wasted so much time trying to read Keith Richards autobiography before I finally gave up a hundred or so pages in. It’s possible that I missed another book, but I can’t remember what else I may have read.
- Sister: A Novel by Rosamund Lupton – This was a good book about a woman trying to figure out what happened to her sister. It was set in London and definitely had some twists and turns.
- The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand
– While I found this book pretty unrealistic, I really liked it. It was about a group of couples/families who lived on an island and how things got mixed up with several of them. Each chapter was the point of view of one of the characters and it was neat to see the story from the different sides.
- The Island: A Novel by Elin Hilderbrand
– This book about a family who went back to their rustic island vacation home for a month after a tragedy. I didn’t even realize it was the same author as the book above, but it makes sense based on how the story was told from the various characters and that they had similar themes.
- The Astronaut’s Wife by Robert Tine I was hoping to like this – I never saw the movie, so I wasn’t entirely sure what it would be about. I was hoping for similarities to The Time Travelers Wife – I guess a space version of Time Traveling – and in a sense it had that, but it was a bit too sci-fi for me. While I think I got the gist of the story, I think it was missing 50+ pages…. Lo downloaded it from a site that someone had scanned it and shared it (I guess), and while the story made sense and I didn’t notice I missed anything, it said it was only 150-something pages, whereas Amazon says its 234 pages… So that’s a little weird. Oh well. I liked it through the middle, but didn’t love it enough to investigate what I missed.
