December's Reads
Just realized I haven't posted December's reads! Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 12/8/2014 Good Fiction - 422 pages Print Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears and Nick is the main suspect. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer? (adapted from Amazon summary) What to say about Gone Girl without giving spoilers? This is a book that stayed with me, but was oddly unsatisfying. That may have been the way Flynn intended it. I'm not sorry I read it, though. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak 12/12/2014 Excellent Young Adult - 574 pages Audio 13 hours and 56 minutes RE-READ In 1939 Nazi Germany, young Liesel Meminger lives with her accordion-playing foster father and rough-talking foster mother... and the Jewish man hidden in the basement. The Book Thief was polarizing at book club. People loved it or hated it. No middle ground. I have read it twice and love the beauty of the language and I appreciated the voice of the n...