Greetings Readers! 
The West Warwick Public Library’s Adult Reference Department is introducing a Book Review contest for Summer 2010.
Our Adult Summer Reading Program theme is “Water Your Mind: READ”. We are asking our readers to submit book reviews for our blog here and each book review will be tossed into a random drawing. At the end of the summer reading program in late August, we will have a drawing and prize awarded to the lucky reader and book reviewer!
You will be able to post all of your book reviews on our blog. Please submit your name with each book review so that we can enter you in our drawing.
All of you who are interested in submitting a book review, please post your book review comment(s) below. For book review examples, please scroll down to the next post.
We look forward to receiving your book reviews!
Note: If you are having any trouble commenting below, please feel free to email us your questions at ref@wwlibrary.org or give us a call at 401-828-3750 ext. 4. We are here to help!
Title: Twenty Wishes
Author: Debbie Macomber
Review: Four widows meet in Ann Marie Roche’s bookstore on Valentine’s Day. One of them suggests the idea of making a “wish” list of things they secretly wanted to accomplish but never did. Their list gives them hope and changes their lives in many unexpected ways. Each of them discover that dreams can come true.
A very enjoyable and heartwarming story ideal for summer reading.
Written by Joan Boucher
Title: After All These Years
Author: Susan Isaacs
Review:
How would you like to wake up after your very lavish twenty fifth wedding anniversary and be told by your husband that he is leaving you for someone more beautiful and sophisticated? Well, that’s not all Rosie Meyers had to endure. Late one night she awakens after hearing a noise downstairs in her house. She goes to investigate only to find her Ex on the kitchen floor with a knife protruding from his chest. Rosie made the mistake of trying to remove the knife to see if her Ex, Richie was still alive. This act plus the fact that she is the only one at home at the time of the murder makes her Sergeant Gevinski’s only suspect. Rosie leaves her home town and goes on the lam into Manhattan where she starts putting clues together to prove her innocence. Rosie is only an English teacher, but she is resourceful and with the help of some people that were close to her solves the case.
The story portrays Sergeant Gevinski as a very narrow minded detective who couldn’t seem to set his mind on exploring other clues as to who would have motive for the murder. Rosie, herself is a delightful witty character who shows great strength and goes to any length to prove her innocence.
Another good summer read. No concentration necessary. Let the story take you where it may for you know that most of it is very unrealistic.
Written by Joan Boucher
Title: The Child Thief
Author: Brom
Review: The story of Peter Pan has been rewritten. Peter is now a violent, sinister, sociopath out to do whatever is necessary to save his magical world from being totally destroyed. The basic original story is still evident, but because of the use of descriptive language and violent battles this is not a bedtime tale for the children. Brom has created his own version of Peter and his own version of Neverland.
written by Lorna Hill
Title: The Lost Symbol
Author: Dan Brown
Review:
As he has done in previous books, Dan Brown choses a another well-known city, this time Washington, DC, as the backdrop forhis latest novel, The Lost Symbol. It explores the Masonic roots of the founding fathers and reveals how Masonic iconography is present in Washington’s buildings and on US currency. The story begins when Robert Langdon, the Harvard symbologist, responds to an invitation that he believes has been issued by his friend, Peter Solomon, to give a lecture in the Capitol’s Hall of Statues, but the invitation was issued by someone else. A series of adventures begin after a severed hand with a cryptic message is found.The reader is kept in a state of suspense, never knowing which characters are the enemies. The plot invoives clues written on a hidden pyramid, magic squares incorporated into artwork, and a covert video deemed to be a matter of national security. I recommend this title to all readers who enjoy mystery novels.
Suzanne Bertrand