Christine's Book Corner

Orphan Train  by  Christina Baker Kline Get on board the orphan train and travel to a different place and time where two girls who are separated by decades and yet find out their lives are no different at all in this novel  Orphan Train by Christine Baker Kline. I was captivated by this book right from the beginning.  Kline starts the book with a prologue of a woman speaking.  All we know is that she is ninety years old and endured many hardships in life.  From that moment, you need to find out who this woman is and what she went through all these years that she lived.  It was hard to put the book down with such a powerful opening. Molly is a seventeen year old girl who meets Vivian while she's cleaning out her attic as part of her community service.  Being placed in foster home after foster home, Molly finds herself in trouble after stealing a book from the local library.  When she goes to meet Vivian for the fi...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep  by Philip K. Dick Summary from Goodreads It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignmet--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found! My Thoughts  First off, let me say that the title of this book didn't describe the book at all.  Why did Philip K. Dick even make this a title.  We only saw an electric sheep mentioned at the beginning of the book and towards then end, when the main character got a goat.  Other than that...I saw nothing to do with electric sheep and the link with androids sleeping.  Androids, yes they were a major part of the book.  But I didn't see any other connection there to the title.  I really did have hope for this book when I began reading it, but slowly, the book kept changing bet...

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Summary from Goodreads Catch a fallen star... Tristan Thorn promised to bring back a fallen star. So he sets out on a journey to fulfill the request of his beloved, the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester - and stumbles into the enchanted realm that lies beyond the wall of his English country town. Rich with adventure and magic,  Stardust  is one of master storyteller Neil Gaiman's most beloved tales, and the inspiration for the hit movie. My Thoughts:  I had no idea this book was a movie until I was halfway through reading it.  Having said that, I have to see the movie now (and not only because Ben Barnes is in it), but because I hope that the movie is better than the book. Gaiman's writing in this book had be hooked at the beginning and I was really looking forward to where it was heading and then just like that, the book lost me.  I began to lose interest and found myself skimming through some of the chapters.  Too much ...

Summary from  Goodreads A profound and dazzlingly entertaining novel from the writer Louis Menand calls "Jane Austen with a Russian soul"   In her warm, absorbing and keenly observed new novel, Lara Vapnyar follows the intertwined lives of four immigrants in New York City as they grapple with love and tumult, the challenges of a new home, and the absurdities of the digital age.    Vica, Vadik, Sergey and Regina met in Russia in their school days, but remained in touch and now have very different American lives. Sergey cycles through jobs as an analyst, hoping his idea for an app will finally bring him success. His wife Vica, a medical technician struggling to keep her family afloat, hungers for a better life. Sergey’s former girlfriend Regina, once a famous translator is married to a wealthy startup owner, spends her days at home grieving over a recent loss. Sergey’s best friend Vadik, a programmer ever in search of perfection, keeps trying on different w...