Comments on: Review: The Swimming Pool by Holy LeCraw

By: Carol Wong

Carol Wong — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:18:06 +0000

I love Cape Cod and want to go back so much! So this is a great setting for a book. There is a special feeliing about the place, the beach, the small towns, the interesting houses. I really want go back. An unsolved murder makes me want to read this book even more.

Carol Wong

By: Sharon Young

Sharon Young — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:55:12 +0000

It is interesting Jen how people do not always like the same books. My on-line book club ‘From Left to Write’ and I are never on the same page. I dislike what most people like, and just the opposite with other books.

I frequently find myself in this situation, with the books I love not being another’s cup of tea. I picked ‘A Gesture Life’ years ago for my local book club and everyone hated it. I had loved the book and no one had a nice thing to say about it. Very embarrassing. Then we read the ‘Celestine Prophecy’ and it was the same thing in reverse. I hated the book.

Is it me or just the clubs I find myself in? I wonder.
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By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:11:18 +0000

I had this out from the library before your review posted. For some reason, I just couldn’t get into it. I didn’t read in very far, but lost interest and the book just sat untouched for a week.

Now that I read this review, I really wish I had read on. I guess I did not give the book enough of a chance!

By: Sharon Young

Sharon Young — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:56:34 +0000

Beautiful review Amelie. You should probably be writing cover blurbs for books. Your review makes me want to read this book right now. The complicated family dynamics might curtail my interest but I love a good murder mystery. I think it must be genre that is hard to write, because so few murder mysteries are done well. I love the ones written in the 1940s by James McCain. If anyone has some good suggestions for murder mysteries, I would be interested in seeing your picks.

The cover of the book reminds me of David Hockney’s swimming pool paintings.

By: Esme

Esme — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:27:05 +0000

Great review and interesting how you viewed this book so differently from me. The concept of the book was great , I just could not follow the story-the sister was too whiny and annoying for me. The author did a great job with the tangled web of family members that she wove.

By: RivkaBelle

RivkaBelle — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:54:01 +0000

Wow, Amelie — that review was beautiful! Lyrical, even. It made me think of swimming, actually …

The cover of this is absolutely stunning. I remember spending summers growing up at my grandparents’ farm in Florida, with the pool out back … It glimmered a slightly darker blue than what’s on the cover, but the image is similar enough to my memory-images to make me slip away to that other time … Pools, and water in general, are so — memorably-powerful. They’re evocative. Fascinating. Dangerous. And beautiful. This book sounds like it meets the challege of a ‘pool’ well … This is definitely going on the To-Read list!

By: Colleen Turner

Colleen Turner — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:30:33 +0000

Wow, awesome review! I remember seeing this earlier in the year and putting it on my TBR list because it sounds interesting, but after this review I want it now! This is going to the top of the list .

By: Brenda Butler

Brenda Butler — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:39:49 +0000

I think I need to add this one to mt TO READ list!