Sue Grafton | Mama Sick http://www.mamasick.com Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:08:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Book Reviews! http://www.mamasick.com/2016/06/book-reviews-5/ http://www.mamasick.com/2016/06/book-reviews-5/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:08:04 +0000 http://www.mamasick.com/?p=4020 This post is inspired by Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. These reviews are taken from my goodreads profile. I hope you will follow me on there! I read this book as a part of the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge. This book … Continue reading

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This post is inspired by Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop.

These reviews are taken from my goodreads profile. I hope you will follow me on there!

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I read this book as a part of the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge.

This book centers on two characters, Anna Karenina, who gives up her marriage and son to live life with another man, and Konstantin Levin, who is searching for the meaning of life. Levin is supposed to represent Tolstoy in the book. The plot reads like a soap opera set in Russia in the late 1870’s. The only things that I would say grew tiresome for me is Levin’s life as a farmer and the workings of Russian politics, all of which I skimmed!

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In the 1950s at Johns Hopkins Hospital, an African American woman’s cells were taken without her knowledge. Her cells became legendary because they were the first cells grown in culture, still being grown today and have helped develop the polio vaccine, brought scientists closer to finding cures for cancer, and gene mapping. Yet little was known about the woman behind the “HeLa cells” before Rebecca Skloot’s fascinating book. The writer delves into the lives of Henrietta Lacks and her family and explores issues such as patient consent and experimentation on African Americans. Definitely recommended!

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23 year old Bobby Callahan hires private investigator Kinsey Milhone because he believes someone is trying to kill him after a car accident left him with impaired memory. Kinsey tries to fill in the gaps before someone tries again. I read these books years ago but have forgotten how good they were. This is a great story with plenty of suspense and I look forward to going through the rest of the alphabet!

I hope you enjoyed my reviews. Once again feel free to follow me on goodreads so we can share recommendations!

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Right! Click! Paste! http://www.mamasick.com/2016/03/right-click-paste-2/ http://www.mamasick.com/2016/03/right-click-paste-2/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:25:06 +0000 http://www.mamasick.com/?p=3910 This post is courtesy of Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. 2. Open a blank blog post and “right click paste” in the body of the post…what was pasted? Explain it. I am rereading a few of Sue Grafton’s alphabet mystery series, … Continue reading

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2. Open a blank blog post and “right click paste” in the body of the post…what was pasted? Explain it.

I am rereading a few of Sue Grafton’s alphabet mystery series, but most I have not read, and plan on going through them all. The woman who was found guilty in the death of her hotshot lawyer husband is out of prison and she wants P. I. Kinsey Millhone to find out who really did it. This is mystery writing at it’s finest. I can’t believe the first book was written all the way back in 1982!

What I last pasted was a Pinterest book review I have from one of my boards, “Books I am Reading/Have Read.” It comes from a longer review from Goodreads.

I’d love for you to follow me on Goodreads or Pinterest and meanwhile I will be working my way through Sue Grafton’s alphabet!

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