The Lion Women of Tehran ~ Marjan Kamali

 I didn't find it "heart-wrenching" or "emotional" but a well told sweeping history of Iran.

I loved the food descriptions, I loved the sense of place but I think it glossed over too much history

Lost Lambs ~ Madeline Cash

Don't be mislead by the cutesy kiddy cover ... it hides dark goings on!

A romp filled with chaos, a plot that twisted and turned, characters that were seriously deranged.

Loved the weird way the author used any opportunity to insert a silent "g" into words where "gnat" could gnaturally be formed. The book was filled with quirkiness and absurdities but I was still invested in the storyline.

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny ~ Kiran Desai

 

Lady Tan's Circle of Women ~ Lisa See

 

**

If this had been my first Lisa See it probably would have been my last.

Yes, there was history but it was repetitive and laboured  (mostly re bound feet and medial practices in early China) 

Let Us Descend ~ Jesmyn Ward

 This really should have been a DNF.

What was meant to pass for magic realism was more like continuing dream-sequences followed by and-then-I-woke-up

Don't know wtf I kept reading

Playground ~ Richard Powers

 

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books ~ Kirsten Miller

 

Lies And Weddings ~ Kevin Kwan

 

Like 

Hard to rate ... def better than his last, but no where near CRA

Too much listing of brand names

Long Island ~ Colm Toibin

 

The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois ~ Honor Fannone Jeffers

 DNF

What a hot mess.

So needs an edit.  Rambles on and on and on

The Last Devil To Die ~ Richard Osman

 

The Land Of Lost Things ~ John Connolly

 

DNF

Lessons in Chemistry ~ Bonnie Garmus

 **** Liked it a lot, but would be mindful of who I recommended it to

Keeping the little woman in her place ... no ... turn a cooking show into an empowering lesson in chemistry

Lucy By The Sea ~ Elizabeth Strout

 

X NO

Lucy can stay by the sea ... and hopefully get carried away by the tide.

Tiresome whiny narrator with the depth of a teaspoon and the vocabulary of Dick and Jane

Limberlost ~ Robbie Arnott

 

*** LIKE

An outstanding Aussie writer : I liked it ... a lot ... but, there was a "but"

It has a great sense of place and time but lacks the magic realism of the previous two that I loved.

The Lincoln Highway ~ Amor Towles

X NO X

DID NOT FINISH

Surely this should be sold as YA.  The level of language, the Hardy Boys type boys-own-adventure.  Boring!  The storyline, though littered with gung-ho action, is plodding.  

Repetitive, tedious, banal ... 

 

Little Siberia ~ Antti Tuomainen

 

The Last House On Needless Street ~ Catriona Ward

 

Leviathan Wakes ~ James S. A. Corey (The Expanse #1)

 

Luster ~ Raven Leilani