Book Reviews
|
|
'People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.' Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist) |
|
Grace enjoys reading anything from chick-lit to James
Joyce. She has been reviewing fiction and non-fiction books since 2004 (samples) and currently reviews regularly for WomenWriters. If you're a book review editor
please contact her here.
Authors she recommends - Charles Dickens, JRR Tolkien,
Fannie Flagg, Peter Hoeg,
Roddy Doyle, Jeffrey Deever, John Irving, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Christopher Brookmyre, Diana Gabaldon,
Marian Keyes,
Katie Fforde,
Laura Pedersen, and Niall Williams.
Grace is currently reading 'North and South' by
Elizabeth Gaskell (18th century classic) and 'Aesop's Fables' (try them, you
will be amazed by how often they're referenced in modern times).
Recent Reviews - Recommended Reads
(click on the title to buy it, click on the genre to read my review)
'The Woman's Field Guide to Exceptional Living' by Corrie Woods (self-help) - review not available online yet
'Sixty-Five Roses' by Heather SummerHayes (autobiography / cystic fibrosis memoir) - review not available online yet
'Ruby Rest' by Tyler Oaks (suspense/romance, a negative review) - review not available online yet
'The Broker' by John Grisham (thriller)
'The Thrall's Tale' by Judith Lindbergh (historical fiction)
'The Sweetest Hours' by Laura Pedersen (short fiction)
'Broken Water' by Paula Martin Morell (short fiction collection)
'Of Water and Dragons' by Kelley Heckart (fantasy)
'Teeth in a Pickle Jar' by H. B. Milligan (chick-lit)
'Botswana
Time'
(travel)
'Riviera' (history)
'Tales of the Country' (down-sizing)
'The
Land that Thyme Forgot'
(culinary history of the UK)
'Restoring Grace' by Katie Fforde (Chick-lit)
'Four Letters of Love' by Niall Williams (Celtic romance / fable)
'Problems in Living' by Melissa Brown Levine (Contempory women's fiction)
'What it feels like' edited by A.J. Jacobs (Non-fiction stories of strange life experiences)
'The Work we were Born to Do' by Nick Williams (Non-fiction to help you find the right role in life)
'Good Intentions' by Agnes Desarthe (Contempory French fiction (in English))
All photography and text on these pages, except when otherwise indicated, are copyright Grace Tierney 2003 - 2009