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 [...]
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 [...]
Heart of a Shepherd by Rosanne Parry was a beautiful book about ranching, religion, faith, military families, and the Iraq war. Quite the combo there but it all fits together in such a way that the book is entirely moving and powerful but yet very quiet. It had me slowing down while reading it and [...]
Gabriel’s Story by David Anthony Durham is one of those books that I saw mentioned somewhere (but for the life of me I can’t figure out where), I immediately put on hold at the library, and when I brought it home, everything else I was reading got put down and it cut in line from [...]
I was going through my draft posts and happened upon this review template for Escape Under the Forever Sky by Eve Yohalem. Looks like I read it back in September and completely forgot about posting about it. Luckily, I do remember some details about the book so I thought I would try to spit some [...]