What's Been on my Kindle? - September 2013
What's On My Kindle? by preppy-lizzy on Polyvore
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
This was a wonderful book. It was a great story about the support system behind the literary genius that was Hemingway. The story is fiction but pulled from facts and stories about Hemingway and his wife and their life as they moved from Chicago to Paris to Toronto and back to Paris as well as all their travels around Europe. It gives the reader a glimpse of the crew Hemingway rolled with and the kind of flow of artistic ideas that was happening in Paris at this time. I found myself completely lost in the story and going through the range of emotions that Hemingway's wife was experience, something I feel is a strong point for a book.
4.5 Snaps for me!
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Wanted to sneak a classic in before the end of the month. I love that you can get classics for free on your kindle (at most $1) I just started to late and wasn't able to get through it before the end of the month. Therefore Mr. Gray will have to wait til October for his review.
Sutton by J.R. Moehringer
Sutton is the story of bank robber Willie Sutton as he is released from prison on Christmas Eve after being pardoned by the governor of New York in the 1970s. He has spent nearly 50 years behind bars and a lot has changed. A New York paper purchased the rights to the his story and a young reporter and photographer spend Christmas Day with Willie exploring New York City, reliving his past from childhood to his first and only great love to his first crime and his subsequent bank robberies that were particularly memorable. We follow him in and out of prison stints and learn that there is so much more to this man, this charismatic and cunning individual then we ever expected in its opening pages.
A great page turner and and enthusiastic 4.5 snaps for me!
What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love by Carole Radziwill
What Remains is a memoir of Carole Radziwill's life up until the death of her husband, Anthony Radziwll, who suffered from cancer for a number of years. It is a story about coming to grips with the world around you, while also continuing to find your humanity and heart. This is also the story about her life becoming a part of the extended Kennedy family. Her husband, a European prince, was cousin to John Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy as their mothers were sisters. This is the story of their lives intertwining and the bond she created with Carolyn, John's wife. It is also the story of life changing unexpectedly out from under you, and finding the strength to carry on gracefully. I hope to have a life as interesting and adventurous as hers, while keeping myself as honest and graceful throughout hardships.
4 snaps for me.
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiScalfani
This is the story of Thea, an adventurous girl who is both headstrong and willful and a little wild at heart. At the start of the book, she and her father are traveling to North Carolina from Florida, where she will begin a camp stay at the Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls. It is the start of the Depression, but the girls at Yonahlossee are privileged and mostly protected from the harsh realities of the depression. Thea is an excellent rider and her father tells her this is place she will thrive. Only at the end of chapter one do you realize that she is also there due to a secret she is hiding. Throughout the course of the story, Thea learns what it is like to be around girls her own age and away from her family and her twin brother, while you slowly learn more about the family secret that brought her to camp. An excellent coming of age story set in the Appalachian Mountains during the Depression, this book keeps you engaged from start to finish.
4 solid snaps for me!
