Review: The Last Woman Standing

The Last Woman Standing by Thelma Adams
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

While the concept of Wyatt Earp's love interest and later wife during the OK Corral saga sounds like a wonderful story, I did not care for the writing - too sappy for my taste. There were times when I wanted to just slap her! (not the author, but Josephine Marcus the main character) I think I'll stop reading the free once-a-month books offered through Amazon Prime. They sound appealing, but I wish I had spent time reading something else on my "to-read" list.

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Review: Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America

Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

If you enjoy reading in-depth biographies as well as history I recommend this book. It is fact, not fiction, based from letters, and published articles from the time period. I enjoyed this book because it taught me about the social and political climate during and after the Civil War. I became enlightened about the bigotry and resistance to integration by the Democratic party as well as a faction of the Republican party; not only to African Americans, but to American Indians and Chinese as well. The book also covered how corrupt the government had become. The author does a great job uncovering Custer's complex personality. The time period continues to fascinate me - I expect to search for more reading materials based on the time period of 1860 to about 1875. A short time period, but so much happened in America.

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Review: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Oh my...where do I start? I truly enjoyed Fredrik Backman's "A Man Called Ove" decided to give his second novel a read too. As in his first novel, he continues to write with the same charm only instead of a elderly man, this one has an elderly woman. This grandmother is about as sassy as one can be, and is as close to her "almost eight-year old" granddaughter as possible.

The story moves on through a series of fairy tales told from grandma to granddaughter and is actually a road map for the almost eight-year old to use once grandma isn't around.

This novel is much like those of Neil Gaiman. Not quite real but yet very real. I loved reading it and do highly recommend it. I'm looking forward to reading Backman's third novel "Britt-Marie Was Here".

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