The year is 1856 and Charlotte is twelve-years-old. In Charlotte’s Rose by A.E. Cannon, Charlotte and her father, newly immigrated from Wales and newly converted to Mormonism, are among a group of pioneers pushing their own handcarts from Iowa City to Utah.
Tired of being treated like a child and eager to make a grandiose [...]
I searched forever for a great book club graphic but we actually have a guy in one of my book clubs (who brings a much needed perspective to our meetings!) and all the graphics had women. Sigh . . .
So, I’m in THREE book clubs and I wanted to share with you what books we [...]
Despite the fact that I have at least 20 books that will be overlapped into 2010 reviews, it just doesn’t make sense to review a Christmas book in January, so I wanted to squeeze one last 2009 review in. I read The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck for my book club. I liked it, I [...]
I can not believe that I almost have forgotten that I hadn’t yet reviewed The Help by Kathryn Stockett! Easily one of my most favorite books of the year! I can not rave about this book enough. I want to pepper this review with explanation marks everywhere!!
I knew that everybody was saying The Help was [...]
So Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin is one of those books where perhaps not reviewing it in a timely manner ultimately creates the final judgment: it’s a pretty forgettable book. I hate to say that because I remember thinking that the book wasn’t that bad while I was reading it but when I picked it up [...]
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