December 4, 2016 Speaking of love: Also finished: Making Faces by Amy Harmon This was a book club pick and fabulous love story. I adored the characters—sweet, smart, sensitive Fern; Ambrose, who went off to war with a...
Read MoreJune 26, 2016 Holy crap, where did this month go?! End of school, my niece Ashlynn’s wedding (eek, my baby niece!), lots of family in town, a beach getaway at one of my favorite places…Whoosh! went June, but in a good way. Not a...
Read MoreApril 24, 2016 Reading Now: Daughters of the Dragon by William Andrews This is a book club pick that I think will be wonderful and devastating in the way I found books like The Kite Runner and Snow Flower and The Secret Fan...
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2016 Just finished The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Well, not so much finished as quit on page 95. Boring, bizarre, morose. Did I say boring? I can’t go on. I feel resentful I spent as much of my precious...
Read MoreFebruary 10, 2016 Ack, having one of those times where I somehow get myself reading like 10 books at a time! Putting them ALL down for a DO-OVER, allowing myself one fiction—The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood—and one...
Read MoreJanuary 18, 2016 Finished: Graveminder by Melissa Marr Graveminder is a book club choice that definitely fulfills the “something I would never pick up on my own” quality I love about book clubs. Well, win some, lose some with...
Read MoreJanuary 10, 2016 Still reading a few other books, but couldn’t wait to get an early Valentine’s Day treat, Dare Me by Debra Druzy. Dare Me is Debra Druzy’s second book, and I had just as much fun...
Read MoreDecember 13, 2015 Just Finished: Fourteen by Leslie Johansen Nack Wow, what an incredible memoir, the story of fourteen year old Leslie Johansen as she navigates both a cross-sea sailboat journey and her confusing, turbulent...
Read MoreSeptember 8, 2015 Just Finished Reading: Sprout by Dale Peck I loved this book. It is wickedly smart, funny, heartbreaking. Sprout is 12 years old when his father moves them from Long Island to Kansas following...
Read MoreAugust 25, 2015 Just Finished Reading: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls As I mentioned in an earlier post, I started this book a long time ago and just didn’t get into it, but I knew I was totally in the minority on...
Read MoreAugust 5, 2015 Just finished reading: Funny Girl by Nick Hornby Thumbs up, though not my favorite of his books. Which is like saying green is not my favorite color of the rainbow or vanilla is not my favorite ice cream....
Read MoreJuly 24, 2015 With We Are Water under the bridge (ba-dum-dum!), what am I reading now? I just started a semi-new book by one of my absolute faves, Nick Hornby- Funny, Girl– woo hoo! Here are some books that I’ve read...
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