Review: To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

To Kill A Mockingbird is an intricately woven tapestry of the South through the innocent, but perceptive eyes of a child that brings out a yearning for a simpler time. It is a tale stored safely in a box of nostalgia with all of those precious things from your childhood that you open up periodically to learn about yourself and look back on the world as it was then. I will no doubt read it again and again and hope to gain a better understanding each time.

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Review: The Hundred-Foot Journey

The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Good book, but it had a few problems. The first one third is a mouth watering coming of age story with well developed characters and a great plot. The beautiful descriptions of Indian and French cuisine are so intricate that I am left craving every dish described.
Then it turns into last week's left overs that have been in and out of the fridge so many times that all the flavor has been washed out. Like a chef cooking a fine dish, an author needs to know how much plot to add so that it doesn't go stale. The reader shouldn't be asking, "why I am still reading this and why is any of this even in the story?"
By the time the story picks up again in the last four chapters, the reader's interest has cooled.

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