by kristinoakley | Feb 29, 2024 | Books and Movies, For Readers, For Writers, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
For February’s Writer’s Book Club, I review The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, narrated by Jack Hawkins and Louise Brealey. In this bestseller, a criminal psychiatrist attempts to treat a woman who murders her husband and then never speaks. I bought the audio...
by kristinoakley | Feb 1, 2024 | Books and Movies, For Readers, For Writers, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
For this month’s Writer’s Book Club, I decided not to review Starter Villain by John Scalzi. I stopped reading it barely halfway through because nothing was happening. The protagonist asks a secondary character three or four times, “Why are we...
by kristinoakley | Jan 5, 2024 | For Readers, For Writers, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
Happy 2024! In among all the holiday festivities, I hope you had time to read a good book or two. I did. I read and listened to several novels, including The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa, just in time to participate in Boswell Book Company’s December...
by kristinoakley | Oct 27, 2023 | For Readers, For Writers, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
For this month’s Writer’s Book Club, I’m not reviewing a novel called Disappointing Books. Instead, I’m reviewing three books I’m very disappointed in. The first one is Gabrielle Zevin’s novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. I...
by kristinoakley | Aug 4, 2023 | Books and Movies, For Readers, For Writers, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
I’m finally getting around to reviewing New York Times Bestseller The Ferryman by Justin Cronin for my Writer’s Book Club and it’s my first negative review. Despite Stephen King’s praise for the novel, this book is a mess. In June, I wrote,...
by kristinoakley | Jun 30, 2023 | Books and Movies, For Readers, For Writers, Newsletter, Writer's Book Club
In this month’s Writer’s Book Club, I review the audiobook version of Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead narrated by Charlie Thurston. Demon Copperhead is a modernized version of Charles Dickens’s novel David...
