Inkberry

• Rated 5 stars

“I read this for one of my book club choices....fantastic book.

Cándido and América, Candidido's wife, cross the border looking for a better life in America. The book begins with Candido being hit by a car and then hiding.

Many heart-wrenching thing happen to the couple....the book totally keeps your interest.

You will love it. ”

Inkberry wrote this review 4 days ago. ( reply | permalink )

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• Rated 5 stars

“A murder in a bistro during a busy Labor Day weekend in Three Pines, Quebec, makes for a great novel...add in beautiful Canadian landscapes, quiet village life, artists, hermits, bed and breakfasts, Inspector Gamache and his team, secrets, codes to break, antiques, and you can't stop reading.

Louise Penny's has an intriguing method of keeping your interests through the descriptions of the characters, the settings, and the lives of those involved in the story.

Absolutely loved the book...a lot of life's lessons included as well.”

Inkberry wrote this review 7 days ago. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 3 stars

“Gripping and confusing...but a thriller nonetheless.

I enjoyed the characters and the story, but I am confused about the ending...was it a constant dream on Teddy's part as an inmate and they allowed him to believe he was a marshal to try to help him forget?

The ending really makes you think.
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Inkberry wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“Loved the book...it is in journal form and tells of how t he government asked the American Indians to trade one thousand white women for horses...their main reason was to "civilize" the Indians and make them aware of and become familiar with the white people's way of life.

Very interesting book...topic not as bad as it sounds.”

Inkberry wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“Lifestyles, a marriage of different classes, drugs, sex, dysfunctional family, murder, poverty, consequences.

This book was a WOW!!!!

A lifestyle I know exists, but difficult to imagine living like that. The book is excellently written. It is about a dysfunctional family living in the slums of New Orleans...a non-working father, two children, and a mother who can't work.

A lifestyle and life cycle that continues over each generation. It allowed the reader to experience that lifestyle many families endure and one that is not pleasant.

You will love the book, but it isn't a cozy, curl up read...it is "real" life with the awful things that happen to unfortunate families.

Thanks, Chris Tusa for allowing me to read your on-line copy...it was great.”

Inkberry wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink )

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• Rated 5 stars

“I would give this book a 10 if I could. Loved it...absolutely amazing....the writing is a masterpiece.

All the mysteries and secrets of the Mountrachet family are revealed....the ending is superb.

The story goes back and forth in time telling the story of how little Nell was put on a boat to Australia without an adult and how the portmaster and his wife in Australia took her in as their own. Nell's life makes a complete turn around for her when her father tells her on her 21st birthday that she isn't really his child.

The book tells of the generations before and after Nell. It is masterfully written...you don't want to put it down until you find out who Nell really is and until you find all the secrets about how she arrived on the boat and in Australia and the significance of the forgotten garden....the garden plays a huge part in the unraveling of the secrets and mysteries in the book.

I usually don't re-read books, but I would re-read this just to be sure I "got" all the facts straight...it was just fantastic....the story was very clever and the characters unforgettable....I didn't want the book to end.

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Inkberry wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“What a tumultuous thriller..this book sets the scene for the amazing saga that is Twilight!!! It's this book in which Edward and Bella first meet and fall madly and deeply in love. The writing style is like candy to a baby, keeps you hooked but rots your teeth. If it wasn't for the allure of vampires, this would be any old love story, but it's not because there are vampires and they bite!!!”

Inkberry wrote this review Friday, November 27 2009. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“Excellent writing and story. Loved it.”

Inkberry wrote this review Friday, November 27 2009. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“It begins with a career woman who is currently losing her hold on the position she has...her friend has a house in Italy that she can't use for the time she had rented it and the main character goes there for a break and finds interesting people,and love.

Very light and breezy...love and ITALY...can't get any better. :”

Inkberry wrote this review Friday, November 27 2009. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 3 stars

“Great read...a little slow at time, but keeps your interest. Many stories inside of stories....it was another novel about books....for some reason I keep choosing ones with that topic. :) It is also historical.”

Inkberry wrote this review Friday, November 27 2009. ( reply | permalink )