285 books overall; 174 books read in the last year; 12 books read in the last month. That's an average of 0 books each month.
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti is a young adult non-fiction book that chronicles the German youth during the Nazi regime under Hitler during WWII. I knew I wanted to read this book after I read The Boy Who Dared, also by Susan Campbell Bartoletti who based that [...]
A 1996 Newbery Medal winner, The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman is set in a English village in the 1300’s. I got a sense of what this book would be about from the very first paragraph:
When animal droppings and garbage and spoiled straw are piled up in a great heap, the rotting and moiling [...]
First things first. I LOVE the cover of Madapple by Christina Meldrum. And then after reading Madapple, I love the cover even more because it matches the story perfectly. I keep looking at it. It’s simply great.
Christina Meldrum is going to be an author to watch. Madapple, her debut book, [...]
The New York Times Bestseller List
June 22nd, 2008
Hardcover Fiction
SAIL, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. A sailing vacation turns into a disaster when someone attempts to destroy a family.
NOTHING TO LOSE, by Lee Child. Jack Reacher exposes the secrets of a Colorado town.
THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. In this first adult novel by the [...]
I picked up We Are On our Own: A Memoir by Miriam Katin after I read Dewey’s review at The Hidden Side of a Leaf in which she says, “This is an amazing book. I suggest you all run straight out to your library or bookstore now and pick it up. Seriously.” So seriously, [...]
