Mountaineerdave finished reading Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) is a novel by Mexican novelist …
A sweet, pretty weird little book. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it.
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Mountaineerdave started reading Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) is a novel by Mexican novelist and screenwriter Laura Esquivel. It …
Mountaineerdave reviewed A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
Eye-Opening, and all too familiar
4 stars
You would never know that we are only 100 years from having had nearly an entire state taken over (3, actually) by the Ku Klux Klan. Worse, the way DC Stephenson is portrayed in this book sounds like some crazy "billionaire" lunatic I had the misfortune of watching on television tonight. Alas... they all get theirs in the end, right?
Mountaineerdave finished reading A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
Mountaineerdave started reading A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
Mountaineerdave reviewed Carnival Monster by Selena Winters
I’ve always chased thrills—dark, risky, and dangerous—because it's the only way I feel alive after …
ugh
1 star
I got about 70% through this miserable, horribly written tale and skimmed the rest so I didn't take on any more bad habits from reading this poorly written example of... drek.
Mountaineerdave wants to read Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of …
Mountaineerdave rated The Shadow of the Wind: 5 stars
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books', a labyrinthine library of …
Mountaineerdave rated The Prisoner of Heaven: 4 stars
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Barcelona, 1957. It is the week before Christmas in the Sempere & Sons bookshop. Daniel Sempere is happily married to …
Mountaineerdave finished reading The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Barcelona, 1957. It is the week before Christmas in the Sempere & Sons bookshop. Daniel …
I am of the belief that Ruiz Zafron is an amazing author. This story is a bridge, though. An amuse bouche. It tells us some history we didn't know, completes a circle that I presume we'll need for the final story in the cycle of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.
Mountaineerdave rated The Big Door Prize: 3 stars
Mountaineerdave rated The Leftovers: 4 stars
Mountaineerdave rated Carnival Monster: 1 star
Selena Winters: Carnival Monster (EBook)
Carnival Monster by Selena Winters
I’ve always chased thrills—dark, risky, and dangerous—because it's the only way I feel alive after enduring a childhood filled with …
Mountaineerdave finished reading Carnival Monster by Selena Winters
I’ve always chased thrills—dark, risky, and dangerous—because it's the only way I feel alive after …
I really don't know what I expected. I suppose the story is basically what one might expect it to be. But, where it is in the Amazon Kindle lists, I thought it would be written better, maybe? It's written in ... It's written poorly. Really, really poorly.
Mountaineerdave finished reading The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
Not the HBO TV Show. Aside from the instigating event, and the handful of primary characters... there's a lot of season one herein, I suppose, but largely, the TV show is a very different beast.
I enjoyed this book, and found myself laughing more than one might expect to while reading about a post-apocalyptic interrogation of how the survivors survive. It's interesting, and it's thought-provoking, and there's a moment near the end that is gut-wrenching, but... much less effecting than the show, which again, different ball of wax.