Escape by Carolyn Jessop

Wow.  Wow.  Escape by Carolyn Jessop (with Laura Palmer) deserves two wow’s.  No, let’s make it three.  WOW.  After reading Shattered Dreams, My Life as a Polygamist’s Wife by Irene Spencer (my book review here) I knew that I wanted more.  So glad that I read this one.  If I thought Shattered Dreams talked about [...]

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

Okay, here we go.  A book review of Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer.  How does one even go about it?  The first half of this review will be spoiler free.  The second half will have spoilers and I’ll tell you when to stop reading if you don’t want to know anything.
Let me state this:  I’m [...]

I Am a Mother by Jane Clayson Johnson

I read I Am a Mother by Jane Clayson Johnsonas a part of my neighborhood book club. I thought that this book was written for a national audience but I was soon mistaken and discovered that I Am a Mother is written for the LDS market. I would have rather that she written [...]

The Giver by Lois Lowry

It’s the future, but it’s a future very different from our own. There is no color, no weather, no hills, no war, no pain, no family, no diversity, no memories, no choices. This is The Giver by Lois Lowry.
In this perfect society, everything is very orderly. At age one, each child [...]

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

My husband and I both recently read Fablehaven by Brandon Mull. It’s very rare for us to read the same book . It’s even rarer that he read it before meWe . recently met Brandon Mull at  a conference where he was one of the speakers and did an author signing (hence the copy [...]