What I've been reading
May. 4th, 2010 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarahmichigan"Kiss Me Like You Love Me" by Ann Arbor author Wednesday Lee Friday (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wednes on LJ). I read her very first novel, "A Stabbing for Sadie," last year, and this is her third novel. Reading the two books so closely together, I can tell she's really grown as an author. I liked that each chapter was quite short. Rather than making the novel easy to put down, I got hooked because I kept thinking, "I'll just read one more chapter - they're short!" Despite the grim subject matter -- it's about a serial killer-- it was an easy read and I enjoyed the bits of black humor.
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"The Buffalo Soldier" by Chris Bohjalian. I've found Bohjalinan's novels to be somewhat uneven (I've read 3 others), so, I wasn't sure what to expect with "Buffalo Soldier," a book by a white male author writing about a white couple fostering and potentially adopting a black boy. It could have gone badly, but I really loved the book, especially the fact that he started each chapter with excerpts from a real Buffalo Soldier's diary.
My full comments on both books here.
wednes on LJ). I read her very first novel, "A Stabbing for Sadie," last year, and this is her third novel. Reading the two books so closely together, I can tell she's really grown as an author. I liked that each chapter was quite short. Rather than making the novel easy to put down, I got hooked because I kept thinking, "I'll just read one more chapter - they're short!" Despite the grim subject matter -- it's about a serial killer-- it was an easy read and I enjoyed the bits of black humor.and
"The Buffalo Soldier" by Chris Bohjalian. I've found Bohjalinan's novels to be somewhat uneven (I've read 3 others), so, I wasn't sure what to expect with "Buffalo Soldier," a book by a white male author writing about a white couple fostering and potentially adopting a black boy. It could have gone badly, but I really loved the book, especially the fact that he started each chapter with excerpts from a real Buffalo Soldier's diary.
My full comments on both books here.
