Books & Reviews




“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart







I was keeping a list of all the books I devoured read here. Then I discovered GoodReads ::que singing angels:: and my life was immensely simplified. If you want to know what I'm reading, what I loved, and what you should leave on the shelves, check out my GoodReads profile here.


Kerry Ann's bookshelf: read


Best Kept Secret: A Novel
Confessions of a Scary Mommy
The Tenth Circle
The Playgroup
Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?
A Vintage Affair
Sweet Ruin
Folly Beach
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Beachcombers
11/22/63
On Writing
Falling Together: A Novel
Love Walked In
Belong to Me
The Litigators
Sarah's Key
Micro
Flash and Bones
Before Ever After



Kerry Ann Morgan's favorite books »

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“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart



Sometimes a book is just so compelling I must write a review. Sometimes an over-hyped book simple stinks and I feel it's only fair to let you know. Sometimes I just want everyone to fall in love with a book as much as I have.

I read. I write. I share.

PhotobucketI review books on this blog and also on Bookshelf Bombshells.com.
{If you haven't checked out that site you totally should. Go now. I'll wait.}



  I'm also a member of the She Reads Blog Network. Each month I review the She Reads Book Clubs Featured selection. They have excellent taste. Check them out.



Some of my reviews:


Heart Like Mine by Amy Hatvany

 Why Can't I Be You By Allie Larkin


The Possibility of You by Pamela Redmond


The Obvious Game by Rita Arens

Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler

 

Why We Write 

The Intercept by Dick Wolf  

 The Comfort of Lies by Randy Susan Meyers  

The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

 Fifty Shades of Chicken by F.L. Fowler

 
My Berlin Kitchen by Luisa Weiss

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

Blackberry Winter by Sarah Jio

On the Island by Tracy Garvis Graves


The Meryl Streep Movie Club by Mia March












**If you would like me to review your book, please contact me here.



I was keeping a list of all the books I devoured read here. Then I discovered GoodReads ::que singing angels:: and my life was immensely simplified. If you want to know what I'm reading, what I loved, and what you should leave on the shelves, check out my GoodReads profile here.






March 2012
I discovered GoodReads


February 2012
When She Woke -- Hillary Jordan
Skipping  A Beat --Sarah Pekkanan
Happiness Sold Separately --Lolly Winston
Bringing Up Bebe --Pamela Druckerman
Kill Shot --Vince Flynn
Self-Editing For Fiction Writers --Browne & King
Red Mist --Patricia Cornwell


January 2012
The Tenth Circle--Jodi Picoult
Words Fail Me--Patricia T. O'Conner
The Playgroup--Nelsie Spenser
Getting the Words Right: How to Rewrite, Edit & Revise -- Theodore A. Rees Cheney
Bright Lights, Big Ass --Jen Lancaster 
A Vintage Affair--Isabel Wolff
Confessions of a Scary Mommy--Jill Smokler 
Sweet Ruin --Cathi Hanauer

December 2011
Folly Beach--Dorothea Benton Frank
Bird by Bird--Anne Lamott
Beachcombers--Nancy Thayer
11/22/63--Stephen King


November 2011
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School--Kathleen Flynn
The Litigators--John Grisham
On Writing--Stephen King
Falling Together--Marissa de los Santos
Sarah's Key--Tatiana de Rosnay
Flash and Bone--Kathy Riechs
Micro--Michael Crichton


October 2011
From Barcelona, With Love--Elizabeth Adler
Cook Like a Rock Star--Anne Burrell
This is Where We Live--Janelle Brown
Demon Fish--Juliet Eilperin
Before Ever After--Samantha Sotto
Catching Fire--Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay--Suzanne Collins


September 2011
Cooking for Geeks--Jeff Potter
Heat Wave--Nancy Thayer
Little Bitty Lies--Mary Kay Andrews
Cold Vengeance--Preston & Child
I Don't Know How She Does It--Allison Pearson
Winter Garden--Kristin Hannah
Swamplandia!--Karen Russell


August 2011
Burnt Mountain--Anne Rivers Siddons
Summer Rental--Mary Kay Andrews
The Silent Girl--Tess Gerritsen
The Sixes--Kate White
Lunch in Paris--Elizabeth Bard
Kindred Spirits--Sarah Strohmeyer


July 2011
Protrait of a Spy--Daniel Silva 
Slippery Tipples--Joseph Piercy
Smokin Seventeen--Janet Evanovich
Overbite--Meg Cabot 
Then Came You--Jennifer Weiner 
Dead reckoning-- Charlaine Harris  
Bossypants--Tina Fey


June 2011
The Violets of March--Sarah Jio 
State of Wonder--Ann Pachett 
Why I Write--Janet Evanovich 
Sticky Fingers--Nancy Martin
Arm Candy--Jill Kargman
As Husbands Go--Susan Isaacis  
Dreams of Joy--Lisa See

May 2011
Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives--Josie Brown
The Big Nap--Ayelet Waldman
One Day--David Nicholls
Crunch Time--Diane Mott Daivdson
The Poison Tree--Erin Kelly

April 2011
The Peach Keeper--Sarah Addison Allen
The Persian Pickle Club-
-Sandra Dallas
Mystery--Jonathan Kellerman
The Uncoupling--
Meg Wolitzer
How to Bake A Perfect Life--
Barbara O'Neal
Room
--Emma Donoghue
A Discovery of Witches--Deborah Harkness
The Language of Light--Meg Waite Clayton

March 2011
13 Little Blue Envelopes--Maureen Johnson
The Four Ms. Bradwells--
Meg Waite Clayton
The Wednesday Sisters--
Meg Waite Clayton
The Weird Sisters-
-Eleanor Brown
Sing You Home--Jodi Picoult
Mama Rides Shotgun--Deborah Sharp

February 2011
Night Vision--Randy Wayne White
A Trip to the Beach-
-M. & R. Blanchard
To Have and To Kill--
Mary Jane Clark
Tales From the Yoga Studio-
-Rain Mitchell
The Hunger Games
--Suzanne Collins
Murder Melts in Your Mouth
--Nancy Martin
Fatal Error-
-J.A. Jance
the one that i want
--Allison Winn Scotch

January 2011
 
Backseat Saints----Joshilyn Jackson
A Reliable Wife--Robert Goolrick
The Inner Circle
--Brad Meltzer
The Solomon Sisters Wise Up--
Melissa Senate
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest-
-Steig Larsson
jemima j--Jane Green
The Girl Who Played With Fire--Steig Larsson

December 2010 
The Confession--John Grisham
Remarkable Creatures--Tracy Chevaliar
Port Morturary--Patricia Cornwell
Dead or Alive--Tom Clancy
Gods in Alabama--Joshilyn Jackson
Compromising Positions--Susan Isaacis


November 2010
 
She's Gone Country--Jane Porter
The Jane Austin Book Club
--Karen Joy Fowler
Painted Ladies--Robert Parker
American Assassin--Vince Flynn
The Reversal--Micheal Connelly 

Hell's Corner--David Baldacci

October 2010

Fall of Giants--Ken Follett
Wicked Appetite--Janet Evanovich
Spider Bones--Kathy Reichs
Midnight Rainbow--Linda Howard
Little Bee--Chris Cleave
Santa Fe Edge--Stuart Woods

September 2010

 Medium Raw--Anthony Bourdain
Savannah Breeze--Mary Kay Andrews
Sleeping Arrangements-- Madeline Wickham
The Nanny Returns--McLaughlin and Kraus
The Poisonwood Bible--Barbara Kingsolver
Maybe This Time--Jennifer Crusie


August 2010

Star Island--Carl Hiaasen
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo--Steig Larsson
The Society of S--Susan Hubbard
Savannah Blues--Mary Kay Andrews
Last Night at Chateau Marmont--Lauren Weisberger
Easy on the Eyes--Jane Porter

July 2010

Sizzling sixteen--Janet Evanovich
The Lion--Nelson DeMille
Ice Cold--Tess Gerritsen
Culture Shock Costa Rica--Claire Wallerstein
everything lovely, effortless, safe--Jenny Hollowell
In the Name of Honor--Richard North Patterson
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner--Stephanie Meyer
Fly Away Home--Jennifer Weiner
The Hotel Riviera--Elizabeth Adler
The Rembrandt Affair--Daniel Silva

June 2010

The Rule of Nine--Steve Martini
Insatiable--Meg Cabot
The Burning Wire--Jeffery Deaver
Promises to Keep--Jane Green
Imperial Bedrooms--Bret Easton Ellis

May 2010
Island Beneath the Sea--Isabel Allende
Innocent--Scott Turow
Dead in the Family--Charlaine Harris
Heart of the Matter --Emily Giffin
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything--Janelle Brown
The School of Essential Ingredients--Erica Bauermeister
Fever Dream--Preston and Child

April 2010
Deception--Johnathan Kellerman
Flirting with Forty--Jane Porter
The Girl Who Chased the Moon--Sarah Addison Allen
Just Breathe--Susan Wiggs
The 19th Wife--David Ebershof
Deliver Us From Evil--David Baldacci
Odd Mom Out--Jane Porter
The Blonde Theory--Kristin Harmel

March 2010
Momzillas--Jill Kargman
Split Image--Robert B. Parker
Lamb--Christopher Moore
Bahamarama--Bob Morris
Every Day in Tuscany : Seasons of an Italian Life--Frances Mayes
House Rules--Jodi Picoult

February 2010
The Help--Kathryn Stockett
The Swan Thieves--Elizabeth Kostova
Bad Mother--Ayelet Waldman
Brava Valentine--Adriana Trigiani
Dirty Girls On Top--Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
See Jane Write--Farrin Jacobs and Sarah Mlynowski
Baja Florida--Bob Morris
Testing Kate--Whiteny Gaskell

January 2010
The Art of French Kissing--Kristen Harmel
Impact--Douglas Preston
Good Luck--Whitney Gaskell
Her Fearful Symmetry--Audrey Niffengger
A Touch of Dead--Charlane Harris
The Gourmet Cookbook (yes, I read it cover to cover)
The Paris Vendetta--Steve Berry
Good Grief--Lolly Winston
Kisser--Stuart Woods



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