Stewart Davies Davies itibaren Lapino, Moskovskaya oblast', Russja, 143332
What can I say, the woman is a genius. Another creative, exciting book in the Grant County series. This is the last book in that series, I really wish I'd read them in order!
A book based on the Bible that was completely accurate. I started reading it not sure if it was going to be actually based on one of the biblical stories, and throughout the novel I had some doubts as to where it was going, but the moment that Jesus came into the picture I said to myself..."BRILLIANT." The way that the characters were laid out and how Marah overcame so much through her life, and to be scorned like that and to come out fighting is inspiring. The mistakes that the characters made and the deaths that occurred at times made me very frustrated, but they all fit well with the overall story. There were only a couple of things that didn't quite add up like how the timeline fit for Ahmal for a bit, but I think that it still was very well written. From what I read the scenes were accurate and there was no mistakes on the history. What I really like was that there was a link to more than one biblical story in the book. I figured out the first story, but then there was another part that was a parable in the bible and then there was one more. The way they all seemed to work as well was brilliant work on the authors part. The Epilogue was intriguing as it completed the story. It finalized it, showing that all the loose ends were tied and there was no more mysteries to be worried about. A book that I would recommend to many people.
This book was an interesting dip into the life of Billie Holiday, but probably not the best book for readers, especially the age group at which it is directed, who do not have much of a background about jazz and blues. The poems didn't floor me, but there were some beautiful ones, and it was a creative and imaginative touch on Weatherford's part that each poem was the title of one of Holiday's songs, which carried on the theme that begins the book in the form of Tony Bennett's quote that Holiday "didn't sing anything unless she had lived it." The illustrations in the book are gorgeous, and somehow packed with the emotion described in the poems. As a sidenote, I didn't like the fact that the poems were printed on speckled paper, as it just seemed unnecessary and made the words slightly more difficult to read.