Backstory: I’ve had this book sitting on my shelf for at least eight months now. (Confession: there are books that have been sitting on my shelf unread for years. I’m an impulse shopper. Further confession: by the shelf, I mean the floor.) The reviews are fantastic–it was a New York Times Notable Book. But the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Mystery’
February 10, 2009
The Associate by John Grisham
Backstory: Coincidentally enough, John Grisham is another author I started reading at my grandmother’s house (different grandmother, though). Also, he’s another author that my mother took away from me when I was young; she let me read everything but A Time to Kill. I remember really enjoying his books when I was younger, but I’ve [...]
January 7, 2009
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Translated by Lucia Graves)
Backstory: My sister-in-law insisted that I read this book. Immediately. Actually, she insisted that everyone she knew read this book immediately, even devoting her facebook status to the cause for a few days. Though she and I don’t have identical taste, she reads almost as much as I do, so when she tells me to [...]
