The Book: The Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King
The Story: Let me start off by saying that this book has nothing to do with dragons. I’ve had this in my pile of books to read for over a year and just haven’t touched it because I can’t get into dragon-y stuff. It was written [...]
The Book: Same Kind of Different As Me: A modern-day slave, an international art dealer, and the unlikely woman who bound them together, by Ron Hall & Denver Moore
The Story: Denver Moore and Ron Hall really could not have led lives that were more opposite than the ones that they were leading: Denver was a [...]
The Book: Mothers and Other Liars, by Amy Bourret
The Story: I was lucky enough to end up on an ARC tour started by Jennie, over at Life is Short. Read Fast. She read it and mailed it on to me. To check out her review, head over here and read up! I’ll let you know [...]
The Book: Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
The Story: While he was still living and working in Oak Park, Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to build a house for Edwin and Mamah Cheney. It didn’t take long at all for Frank and Mamah to realize that they had a lot in common and start to fall [...]
The Book: The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
The Story: A shepherd boy living in Spain (I think…) has a dream one night about treasure that is hidden in Egypt. He makes the decision to follow his dreams, so he sells his sheep and sets off.
Along the way, he meets many people who guide him along this [...]
The Book: The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
The Story: This book covers the full year after the author’s husband dies during dinner of a heart condition. During the same time, their daughter is being scooted around from ICU to hospital to ICU because she is having serious, serious issues after what seemed to [...]
The Book: Pharmakon…or the Story of a Happy Family, by Dirk Wittenborn
The Story: In 1952, William Friedrich is teaching psychology at Yale. In a bar one night, he overhears another professor talking about a trip she took to South America and a leaf that the tribes would take to calm people down or help after [...]
The Book: Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival, by Norman Ollestad
The Story: Yet another survival story. That’s kind of been my “thing” for the last month or so, no idea why. I don’t have any more in my pile, so this may be my last one for awhile, but I’ve probably read 5 [...]
The Book: The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar, by Robert Alexander
The Story: This is the story of the last weeks of the Romanov family, told through the eyes of Leonka, the kitchen boy. When they were moved to the “House of Special Purpose” during the Revolution, only 5 servants went with them [...]
The Book: The House of Tomorrow, by Peter Bognanni
The Story: Sebastian’s parents died when he was very young and since then he’s been living with his grandma in a glass dome outside of town. She has all these semi-crazy beliefs and, while Sebastian is allowed to leave the dome from time to time, he is [...]