I had no idea what Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman was about when I put it on hold at the library. It was chosen for my Children’s Literature Book Club (we were reading all Beehive Award nominees) and being the dutiful member that I am put it on hold but failed to actually look [...]
The Blue Notebook, James A. Levine ’s debut novel, is about child prostitution in India. It’s a book that I knew going into would be an emotionally hard and difficult read and I wasn’t wrong. It’s haunting. It’s the type of book that elicits a physical reaction from the reader and I found myself [...]
So I am probably the last one in the blogosphere to read Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. Honestly, I just hate seeing a book that is everywhere in the stores and that is all over the bestseller lists and all over the web and being in the dark. This one did [...]
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee was recommended to me by Stellascript. Not one to turn down a recommendation that sounded interesting, I promptly put this one on my reading list. I was not familiar with Mukherjee or her books. I now know that she was born in Caluctta and is now an American [...]
A couple weeks ago I was browsing the shelves at a local bookstore when Sold by Patricia McCormick caught my eye. Maybe it’s the artist in me, but I am very drawn to the cover art of book jackets. Judge a book by it’s cover? Yep, I do. I’ll freely admit [...]
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