Archive for March, 2005

The Looking Glass

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

(From NurseAmore, originally published 1.13.05)

Richard Paul Evans’ The Looking Glass was definitely a quick and easy read. I finished it in a few hours. It is a heart-warming love story, which teaches us to love ourselves the way we are. The looking glass is a way to look at ourselves and see the beauty that […]

Middlesex

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

(From NurseAmore, originally published 1.12.05)

Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and when you read it, you can understand why. The novel is about a hermaphrodite, who tells the history of his generations, in order to understand who he/she is and how he/she became. The story covers three generations, starting with […]

Judy Blume’s Summer Sisters

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

(From NurseAmore, originally published 11.30.04)

Summer Sisters
By Judy Blume

Summer Sisters was a very easy and interesting read. Much of the story is very unpredictable. It is based on two girls who spend the summer together on an island with one of the girl’s dad. Each summer you see them grow in their experiences with life and […]

Interpreter of Maladies

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

(From NurseAmore, originally published 10.22.04)

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, is a Pullitzer prize winner, and is a great and easy read. It is a book of short stories about love, based between India and America. In each story, the love situation changes dramatically. One story is about a couple who loves each other, another […]

The Letter

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

(From NurseAmore, originally published 8.27.04)

Richard Paul Evans’s The Letter is a great love story that occurs in the 1930s. It is the third book in a series, but I did not realize it until later. It is written so well that you are not missing any pieces in the story even if you have not […]

Life of Pi

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

(From NurseAmore, originally published 8.05.04)

Life of Pi (by Yann Martel) is a great book! It has been a long time since I read a book where I really felt like the character. The first section of the book is a bit difficult to get into because there is a lot of theory about zoology and […]

Moneyball

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

(From BTW, originally published 3.15.04)

Now that spring training is in full swing, I finally got around to reading Michael Lewis’ 2003 book about the Oakland Athletics, Moneyball. I had expected to read about all sorts of arcane baseball statistics and strategy, and there’s plenty. But Lewis goes beyond the science to bring us […]