Category: The Smell of Books
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Still Life by Louise Penny
“Three Pines wasn’t on any tourist map, being too far off any main or even secondary road. Like Narnia, it was generally found unexpectedly and with a degree of surprise that such an elderly village should have been hiding in this valley all along. Anyone fortunate enough to find it once usually found their way…
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The Green Mile by Stephen King
“Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.” Paul Edgecombe, The Green Mile I’ve been troubled over the past week, as I’m sure many of you have. So, with my heart hurting for both for the family of George Floyd and for my brothers and sisters in blue, I felt I…
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Elevation by Stephen King
There has never been a poorly written Stephen King anything – novel, novella, short story, or even twitter post – and Elevation is no different. Do I claim it as one of my all-time favorite King stories? Not at all, but it is still a great read! Elevation is more than a story about a…
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Best of 2019
With this post, I join the ranks of many a bookish blogger by posting my favorite reads of 2019. I am limiting it to my top 5 favorites. They are not in any specific order. Beartown by Fredrik Backman – Backman is a author I’ve only recently added to my list of favorites, and this…
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Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
John Grisham has world-wide acclaim as one of the best legal thriller authors in America, but that didn’t stop him from a slight derailment into – can we call it – comedy.
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IT by Stephen King
Welcome to Derry, Maine…the supernatural nexus of all things Stephen King (did you detect a bit of fangirl in the inflection?).When I think about the epic horror odyssey we all know as IT, I don’t think about Pennywise the clown, the iconic red balloon, or even little Georgie telling his big brother, “We all float…
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The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
“There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry…They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.” How does one find the words to review a book – fiction not fiction/memoir not memoir…
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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
“You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.”
Peace In The Margins 