I tooted this site’s horn awhile back.
In the post, I made the comment that I wished there was some way to “friend” each other or get updates on your friends’ shelves. The founder of the site replied to my post, saying that it was in the works.
Well it is up and ready now!
The way that [...]
The Book: The Bright Forever, by Lee Martin
The Story: What is it with me and kidnapping/kids in peril books? I am all about them right now.
This one is about a little girl, Katie, who gets snatched from her small town on the way to the library. As the book unfolds, there are a lot of [...]
The Book: When Will There Be Good News?, by Kate Atkinson
The Story: The book starts out with a young mother taking a walk with her kids. A man comes to them and kills 2 of the kids and the mother. The other girl runs away and hides until rescuers find her.
Next, we hop 30 years [...]
Ok. I’m back. The holidays and our Wii have overtaken me.
I have only read a handful of books this month, and there’s no real reason why. I have a healthy looking pile of books calling my name, I’ve had the normal amount of reading time, I just haven’t been motivated.
In fact, I just finished a [...]
The Book: The Idiot Girls’ Action Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life, by Laurie Notaro
The Story: There isn’t really a story here, so much as a collection of essays (and that is to intellectual a word… I don’t know what to call them) about random stuff happening in this woman’s life. [...]
The Book: Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, by Jon Krakauer
The Story: This was a story that was all over the news a couple of times. First, Pat Tillman made the news by giving up his easy-peasy life as a pro football player to join the Army after 9/11. Later, it was [...]
The Book: The Moon Looked Down, by Dorothy Garlock
The Story: During the onset of WWII, the Hellers move from Germany to Victory, Illinois. The family lives there for several years before any discrimination begins, but once it starts, they really get crazy. Their barn is burnt down, the family members are physically assaulted, and [...]
The Book: Remember the Sweet Things: One List, Two Lives, and Twenty Years of Marriage
The Story: This is the story of a marriage. The couple, Ellen and Marsh, met later in life. They had each been married and had children and been pretty messed up before they met each other. They met at work and [...]
The Book: Matchless: An Illumination of Hans Christian Anderson’s Classic “The Little Match Girl”, by Gregory Maguire
The Story: The first part of this story introduces a young boy who is very poor. He is struggling to help keep his stove lit at the house that he and his mother share. It is important that it [...]
The Book: The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
The Story: This is an autobiographical graphic novel of a teenage girl growing up in Iran during the revolution of ‘79. There was a lot about death and war and the veil, and tough stuff, but there were also big chunks about crushes, normal teenage rebellion, secret parties [...]