finished 02.16.11
Read this before we left for Hawaii, actually finished reading it on the first leg of our flights, because it’s mostly set in Hawaii. The characters were interesting enough to keep me reading, but I didn’t love it. That’s two strikes for Moore (I didn’t care much for her book Whiteness of Bones) so I probably won’t read more from her.
finished 11.10.09
I thought I’d really like this book about two sisters, Mamie & Claire, who grew up on the west side of Kauai and moved to New York City, but I didn’t really. It was ok, not great. I only finished it to finish it and there were some brutal scenes near the end that made me wish I’d just put it down. I thought I’d like seeing New York through their eyes, but it was a pretty bizarro New York. I did like the scenes describing Waimea town and Koke’e and the Waimea River and other things on Kauai, though. There just wasn’t enough of that to make me like the book.