November Reading
I can't explain why I'm so bad about doing this on time.
64. Cowboys Are My Weakness
by Pam Houston
Genre: Short Stories
Pages: 171
65. No Holds Barred: Ultimate Fighting and the Mixed Martial Arts Revolution
by Clyde Gentry
Genre: Non-fiction
Pages: 279
66. Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion
by Jennifer Saginor
Genre: Memoir
Pages: 277
67. Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
by Donald Kraybill, Steven Nolt and David Weaver-Zercher
Genre: Non-fiction
Pages: ?
68. Paint It Black
by Janet Fitch
Genre: Fitcion
Pages: 418
Almost all of the short stories in Cowboys Are My Weakness deal with women in the western United States who have bad taste in men, but they still held my interest. I enjoy short stories and this collection is one of my favorites.
I loved Janet Fitch's first book, White Oleander, and unlike many authors, she has produced a follow-up that didn't disappoint me. In Paint It Black, Josie, a punk rock girl from a trashy poor background, find love with Michael, a Harvard dropout with a famous concert pianist mother. The novel opens with Michael's suicide. Josie and Michael's mother collide as they try to cope with Michael's death. The exploration of the lives of the people who are left behind after a suicide made for a gripping novel that manages to never slip into melodrama. I would have a hard time choosing which book I like more, White Oleander or Paint It Black. I highly recommend both.
I would only recommend No Holds Barred: Ultimate Fighting and the Mixed Martial Arts Revolution to fans of mixed martial arts, which oddly enough, I enjoy. I doubt that Jennifer Saginor's poor little rich girl with screwed-up parents would have even been published if it weren't for the playboy connection. Her father was Hugh Hefner's personal physician. Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy was a book that I picked up at the library on impulse. It was okay, but nothing spectacular.
64. Cowboys Are My Weakness
by Pam Houston
Genre: Short Stories
Pages: 171
65. No Holds Barred: Ultimate Fighting and the Mixed Martial Arts Revolution
by Clyde Gentry
Genre: Non-fiction
Pages: 279
66. Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion
by Jennifer Saginor
Genre: Memoir
Pages: 277
67. Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
by Donald Kraybill, Steven Nolt and David Weaver-Zercher
Genre: Non-fiction
Pages: ?
68. Paint It Black
by Janet Fitch
Genre: Fitcion
Pages: 418
Almost all of the short stories in Cowboys Are My Weakness deal with women in the western United States who have bad taste in men, but they still held my interest. I enjoy short stories and this collection is one of my favorites.
I loved Janet Fitch's first book, White Oleander, and unlike many authors, she has produced a follow-up that didn't disappoint me. In Paint It Black, Josie, a punk rock girl from a trashy poor background, find love with Michael, a Harvard dropout with a famous concert pianist mother. The novel opens with Michael's suicide. Josie and Michael's mother collide as they try to cope with Michael's death. The exploration of the lives of the people who are left behind after a suicide made for a gripping novel that manages to never slip into melodrama. I would have a hard time choosing which book I like more, White Oleander or Paint It Black. I highly recommend both.
I would only recommend No Holds Barred: Ultimate Fighting and the Mixed Martial Arts Revolution to fans of mixed martial arts, which oddly enough, I enjoy. I doubt that Jennifer Saginor's poor little rich girl with screwed-up parents would have even been published if it weren't for the playboy connection. Her father was Hugh Hefner's personal physician. Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy was a book that I picked up at the library on impulse. It was okay, but nothing spectacular.