Minu won the drawing for 2 free dinners donated by Qdoba's Mexican Grill with her review of Dawn Prejudice by Stacy Peterson. Barbara Baker won the drawing for a free pizza from NYPD Pizzeria for her review of The Walk by Richard Paul Evans. She rated this book 5 "cans" out of 5!"Kudos to our winners! Thank you to Qdoba's Mexican Grill, NYPD Pizza, and all the other sponsors of the Maitland Library "Water Your Mind - Read!" 2010 Adult Summer Reading program! Come enjoy a luau, music, grand prize drawing, door prizes and games at the End-Of-Summer Party this Saturday starting at 2:00 p.m., right here at the library.
And our other book reviews:
The Artist's Way by Julia Camero, reviewed by Jean: "An organized approach to defeat artist's block - for all kinds of artists - painters, poets, actors, writers, musicians, whatever. Great quotes in the margins and end-of-chapter activities. Includes 'daily pages' of writing and one artist's event each week."
Intervention by Robin Cook, reviewed by Minu.
The Whisperers by John Connolly, reviewed by Kay (5 out of 5 cans): "Connolly weaves a complex plot of several supernatural characters, a group of Iraq vets with PTSD and Pandora's box. PI Charlie Parker generally directs traffic and interfaces the supernatural with the 'real world.' What really raises the literary level of this novel is the eloquent presentation, by an Irishman, of how the rich and powerful in this country send our poor and minority kids off to a war of choice then ignores them when they come home broken in mind or body and are no longer useful. That tragedy is greater than any evil residing in Pandora's box."
Inside Paul Horn by Paul Horn with Lee Underwood, reviewed by Ted: "This is a book of a great musician who played with the likes of Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, etc. It changed his life style going on a spiritual odyssey as a universal traveler playing world music as the founding father of New Age. His 'Inside' series playing the flute inside the Tajmehal (India), the Great Pyramid (Egypt), the Cathedral (USSR), Findhorn (Scotland), and in China. More than an account of his life and times, it's an inspiring story of his journey to belief. Speaking of his life in universal terms by transcending every carrier uniting people everywhere, uplifting and inspiring to all of us. 'Music is trly universal.'"
Death and Judgement by Donna Leon , reviewed by Katie: "Police commissario, Guido Bruneti, must descent into Venice's under-world to solve murders as well as a slave trade business. It's run by important people in Venice, and justice and ethics are no where to be found. Really Good!"
On the Nickel by John Shannon, reviewed by Kay: "The John Shannon/Jack Liffey series are great stories that have flown under the best selling radar. Liffey is a former tech writer that is loid off and goes in a tail spin until he finds he can find missing kids and it makes him feel good about himself. The stories are LA centric which each one featuring a seperate area and /or demographic. This latest is centered around skid-row and his teenage daughter. Great reads. Highly entertaining and up-lifiting."
and the last review of the summer, submited by Kay, for Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich: "Janet Evanovitch is very good and successful at what she does. It really isn't crime fiction as I would describe it, but more a fanciful adventure story. I enjoyed her latest novel, to a degree, as kind of a soda cracker between a pair of gritty crime novels by JC Burle and Michael Connolly. I wonder what the feminists would call a book of improbable and impossible episodes carried out by three women because they know they had two strong men covering their backsides...if it were written by a man."
