A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

Broken parts I will be the first to admit this is not my usual book, I did enjoy parts of it. I think the main I did not like in this book was the main character Davis. I keep being told he was supposed to be charming and charismatic, but I simply did not like him I found him more annoyingly smug and......more

I enjoyed this novel because the characters and their relationships are complex. Davis and his sister, Molly, have survived having a mother abandoning them when they were young. This summer marks some changes for both of them. For Davis, who engineers roller coasters all over the world, when an acci......more

This was my December pick from the Amazon Prime First Reads selection. Davis and Molly were abandoned by their mother when they were children. Each in their own way carries the burden of that abandonment. Davis is a hot-shot engineer who designs roller-coasters whilst Molly plods along as a 'features......more

I picked up A Beginner’s Guide To Free Fall from Amazon’s First Reads, because, hey, free book! That’s kind of my overall feeling after reading it, though. Hey, it was free. After a dramatic opening, in which our protag Davis loses his job and his wife in one afternoon, the book meanders though their......more

I suppose some would regard A Beginner’s Guide to Free Fall as merely a work of fiction and suggest that my virtual “shelving” of the book as “literature” is either nescient or pretentious. Nonetheless, this novel is full of human insight with cleverly crafted phrases, similes, and metaphors. I didn......more