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ChefRaven rated Dinner with Buddha: 3 stars
Dinner with Buddha by Roland Merullo
"Eight years after Breakfast with Buddha skeptic Otto Ringling and Mongolian monk Volya Rinpoche set off across America on another …
ChefRaven reviewed Read Bottom Up: A Novel by Neel Shah
Review of 'Read Bottom Up: A Novel' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
"Two days before they're supposed to visit his family in Omaha for Christmas, TV writer Georgie McCool tells her husband, …
ChefRaven rated Winter Solstice: 3 stars
ChefRaven reviewed Beartown by Fredrik Backman
418 pages ; 24 cm
Review of 'Beartown' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Stunning. Hard to describe. I’d probably say it’s more 4.5 because it’s not without flaws but it’s the type of book where you will finish it and just sit and hold it and look at the cover for a while and try to digest what you just read.
ChefRaven reviewed Bones of the Lost by Kathy Reichs (Temperance Brennan novels -- 16)
"The latest from Kathy Reichs finds Tempe Brennan investigating the connections between a long-dead business …
Review of 'Bones of the Lost' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
I think it might be time to say goodbye to this series for me. The books get worse with each passing one and it’s too bad because the first maybe 10 were great. Hard to describe how bad this one was. A jumbled mess and yet also formulaic.
ChefRaven reviewed Oliver by Sheila Norton
Oliver the cat is a timid little thing, who rarely ventures from his home in …
Review of 'Oliver' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Adorable story. Kinda like a Hallmark Channel Xmas movie - totally hokey and "everything wraps up in a neat bow" sort of tale but it made me smile and I really needed that this week.
ChefRaven rated A Discovery of Witches: 5 stars
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah E. Harkness
An epic, richly inventive, historically sweeping, magical romance.
When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, …
ChefRaven reviewed Y is for yesterday by Sue Grafton (Kinsey Millhone mysteries)
"Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish …
Review of 'Y is for yesterday' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Maybe a 2.5. Disappointing. She’s telling the same subplots over and over. The main plot was unpleasant. There wasn’t a single character I felt any connection to.
When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late …
Review of 'Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I enjoyed the book for the most part but it ended poorly. It was like someone cut the last chapter out. It felt like she was trying to be clever but it fell flat.
ChefRaven rated White walls: 2 stars
Judith Batalion: White walls (2016)
White walls by Judith Batalion
"A memoir of mothers and daughters, hoarding, and healing. Judy Batalion grew up in a house filled with endless piles …
ChefRaven rated The nurses: 3 stars
The nurses by Alexandra Robbins
In a gripping, behind-the-scenes look filled with drama, miracles, heartbreak, humor and unsung heroism, an award-winning journalist chronicles a year …
ChefRaven rated Third Rule of Ten: 4 stars
Third Rule of Ten by Gay Hendricks, Tinker Lindsay
338 pages ; 22 cm
ChefRaven rated The unfinished work of Elizabeth D.: 2 stars
Nichole Bernier: The unfinished work of Elizabeth D. (2012, Crown)
The unfinished work of Elizabeth D. by Nichole Bernier
Summer vacation on Great Rock Island was supposed to be restorative for Kate, who'd lost her close friend Elizabeth in …