Imagine one moment you are driving down the road and the next moment you are standing outside of your own body watching emergency crews clean up the horrific crash you were involved in. This is how If I Stay by Gayle Forman begins. Seventeen-year-old Mia, on track for Julliard school, has no recollection of the [...]
I have been a fan of Katherine Center since she published her first novel The Bright Side of Disaster. And then after reading Everyone is Beautiful and later Katherine Skyping into my book club, the deal was cemented. Katherine is pretty much full of awesome. I’m an unabashed fan. And I’m happy to report that after [...]
. . . I am finally basking in our warm weather and my spring garden!
I grow a perennial garden for each season, so it’s constantly changing. I love gardening so much that I’m sure I won’t be able to help share more photos with you as the growing season progresses. Anybody else out there have [...]
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tarshis is the story of two girls. Emma-Jean who is the smartest but also the strangest girl in seventh grade. She has no friends but she doesn’t care. She’d rather observe her classmates from afar rather than involve herself in their emotional, illogical behavior. Colleen is [...]
The New York Times Bestseller List
April 18, 2010
Hardcover Fiction
CHANGES, by Jim Butcher. Book 12 of the Dresden Files series about a wizard detective in Chicago.
THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.
CAUGHT, by Harlan Coben.A suburban girl goes missing.
THE [...]