So in all honesty it’s been a while since I listened to The Mistress’s Daughter by A.M. Homes. I have discovered (and I suspected this would be true of me) that with two kids in the car it’s probably better for me to have read a book before listening to the audio. I’m [...]
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 Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards was one of those books that I’ve had on my bookshelf for way too long. I had purposely shied away from reading reviews of this book because I hate to know too much about a book before I read it. The only thing I knew was [...]
The 2007 Newbery Medal Winner is The Higher Power of Lucky written by Susan Patron and illustrated by Matt Phelan. After her mother dies and abandoned by a father she never knew, ten year old Lucky lives with her French guardian in the desert community of Hard Pan, population 43. The book explores [...]