The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle

Well, I've finished The Keep by Jennifer Egan. Remember this was a book purported to be "eerie" with a Gothic twist. My review: Eh. It certainly grabbed me enough at first to keep turning the pages but I felt like the author tried too hard to "confuse" the reader into thinking that there was some deep-seeded meaning beneath all the darkness. In truth, I was actually looking forward to finishing this novel, not because I wanted badly to find out what happened at the end but because I wanted to read something else. I kept waiting for something to happen and when the last word was read and the last chapter ended, I turned the page thinking, "Is that is? Where was the ending? What the hell did I just read?" Prior to reading The Keep, I read rave reviews about it and I think now that I must have read a different book. Maybe I'm stupid and shallow and just not "deep" enough to grasp such a "literary masterpiece". Then again, maybe it just sucked. Regardless, don't buy it. If you must read it, you can have mine.

So now I'm reading The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle. This is a book about a widow, struggling to raise her two difficult kids. As happens in life, complications arise and she is forced to foster a neighbors child who is struggling with life himself and trying to decide if he even wants to be a part of it. It looks good and all the reviews I've read have been good but as I've learned, that doesn't always mean anything. I'll let you know.