The Well by Mildred D. Taylor is a prequel to Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (which I haven’t read since I was little but have hopes of maybe getting to this month). Set in Mississippi in 1910, slavery is still fresh in everybody’s mind. David’s father has worked hard and their family owns 400 [...]
Freedom Walkers, The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman has been on my radar forever. I’ve checked it out from the library at least three times but this time I was finally able to sit down and read it. And I cried. I love books like this. I don’t know if it’s [...]
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken is a beautiful memoir. A very sad and beautiful one. The book begins, “A child dies in this book: a baby. A baby is stillborn. You don’t have to tell me how sad that is: it happened to me and my husband, our [...]
After the suicide of her college boyfriend, C. Comfort Shields tried to find a book to help her with her grief. She had been able to find books to help her get through her friends accidental death three years earlier. But in the case of losing a partner to suicide she could find nothing. She [...]
The New York Times Bestseller List
February 8th, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham. An idealistic law-school graduate is forced to take a job at a large, brutalizing law firm.
THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. Aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most human beings, but one woman won’t surrender.
THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, [...]
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