Library Loot!

I’m going to try to do these library loot posts every other week as I normally have books checked out for three weeks at a time.  I go to the library so often that I could do one of these posts three times a week!
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva from A [...]

All the Broken Pieces by Ann Burg

Oh my.  This is my type of book.  All the Broken Pieces by Ann Burg and I were made for each other. And had it not been for the Cybils, this middle grade free verse novel might have flown under my radar (despite that I now see the reviews for it – all of which [...]

The Blue Cotton Gown, A Midwife’s Memoir by Patricia Harman

I have gotten so behind in the number of books that I’ve read but not  yet reviewed that I hope you forgive me for failing to write my own summary for The Blue Cotton Gown, A Midwife’s Memoir by Patricia Harman.  From the jacket flap:
Patricia Harman, a nurse-midwife, manages a women’s health clinic with her [...]

Binky the Space Cat by Ashley Spires

Binky the Space Cat by Ashley Spires is such a cute book!  I giggled my way through this entire graphic novel for the elementary aged set.  I’m not really a cat person either but this is one cat that I couldn’t resist.
Binky the Cat knows one thing that his humans don’t know:  flies are really [...]

New York Times Bestsellers – January 24th, 2010

Nothing like being inconsistent these days.  But taking another look at my stats – this is one of my most popular post types.  So I’m giving it another try (again.)
The New York Times Bestseller List
January 24th, 2010
Hardcover Fiction

THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi.
THE FIRST RULE, [...]