The Crowning Glory of Calla Lilly Ponder Rebecca Wells
Calla Lilly Ponder grew up in Louisianna, living with her loving parents. She spent her childhood helping her mother in her mother's hair salon. Her mother's unexpected death prompts Calla to follow in her mother's footsteps, so she heads to beauty school in New Orleans. While there, she meets and marries the man of her dreams. She and her new husband return to her hometown to reopen her mother's salon. Tragedy strikes again, but Calla proves to be a strong woman, even as an old friend from her past comes back into her life. I loved this book. The author writes in a way that makes you feel as if she is telling the story while sitting across the table from you. The characters are all very likeable, and you find yourself laughing and crying right along with them.
Amanda England
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on 6/25/12
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Harvesting the Heart
Jodi Picoult
A young girl, fresh out of high school, runs away from her home in Chicago. She can no longer face her father after an act that she commmitted, and her mother left her when she was just five-years-old. She finds herself moving east, working in a diner, when she meets a man finishing medical school, and from a world entirely different from her own. The two marry and the marriage is less than perfect. The new addition to the family does not help, and the young girl leaves her new family in search of the mother who left her behind.
This was not my favorite Picoult book. So many times I wanted to throw it across the room. It wasn't because it was poorly written, or a horrible plot, but the two main characters were very unlikable.
Jodi Picoult
A young girl, fresh out of high school, runs away from her home in Chicago. She can no longer face her father after an act that she commmitted, and her mother left her when she was just five-years-old. She finds herself moving east, working in a diner, when she meets a man finishing medical school, and from a world entirely different from her own. The two marry and the marriage is less than perfect. The new addition to the family does not help, and the young girl leaves her new family in search of the mother who left her behind.
This was not my favorite Picoult book. So many times I wanted to throw it across the room. It wasn't because it was poorly written, or a horrible plot, but the two main characters were very unlikable.
Friday, June 22, 2012
The Tenth Circle
by Jodi Picoult
Trixie is a 14 year old girl who seems to have everything going for her. Then one night her whole world shatters, at the hands of who she believes is her boyfriend. A series of twists and turns and even death lead her to her father's boyhood home, a place he hasn't returned to in years due to his own secrets.
This is one of Picoult's better books, written with just enough twists and turns to make it a true page turner, but not enough to make the reader confused. It was a pretty quick read.
Amanda England
by Jodi Picoult
Trixie is a 14 year old girl who seems to have everything going for her. Then one night her whole world shatters, at the hands of who she believes is her boyfriend. A series of twists and turns and even death lead her to her father's boyhood home, a place he hasn't returned to in years due to his own secrets.
This is one of Picoult's better books, written with just enough twists and turns to make it a true page turner, but not enough to make the reader confused. It was a pretty quick read.
Amanda England
Thursday, June 21, 2012
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
This starts out as a retelling of the Hansel and Gretel story, and then goes beyond that into what happened after-and before- and woven between. The author takes a number of tales by the Grimm brothers and links them together in a previously unseen way. The writing is well thought out and makes you think about "fairy tales" in a different than in the norm. If you don't mind realizing exactly how dark some of these tales actually are, i highly recommend this book.
Not for the easily frightened or those who prefer thin fairy-tales free of sadness, death, and hard choices.
I give this book 5 stars.
Rosha C.
This starts out as a retelling of the Hansel and Gretel story, and then goes beyond that into what happened after-and before- and woven between. The author takes a number of tales by the Grimm brothers and links them together in a previously unseen way. The writing is well thought out and makes you think about "fairy tales" in a different than in the norm. If you don't mind realizing exactly how dark some of these tales actually are, i highly recommend this book.
Not for the easily frightened or those who prefer thin fairy-tales free of sadness, death, and hard choices.
I give this book 5 stars.
Rosha C.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Without You
Without You by Anthony Rapp
Anthony Rapp played the character of Mark in the Broadway musical and movie RRent. this book tells of his life experiences and the impact that Rent played in them. This book is forward, honest, identifiable, and an open tale of Anthony Rapp.
A great read!
5 stars.
Jenni Passig
Anthony Rapp played the character of Mark in the Broadway musical and movie RRent. this book tells of his life experiences and the impact that Rent played in them. This book is forward, honest, identifiable, and an open tale of Anthony Rapp.
A great read!
5 stars.
Jenni Passig
A bit behind in the times, but I just finished Stephen King's "It." I decided to
read this book after finishing King's "10/23/63," in which he mentioned the town
of Derry, where "It" takes place.
Five friends join the sixth friend back in their hometown of Derry. The disappearances and deaths that plagued the town during their childhood have started up again, and it's up to this group of friends to stop the evil and mysterious It.
I wasn't a fan of this book. It took about 100 pages for me to really get in to it, only for it to drag the last 100 or so pages. It was hard to follow, between characters with similar names and the past and present time changes. It's very rare that I wish I would have just rented the movie!
Amanda England
Five friends join the sixth friend back in their hometown of Derry. The disappearances and deaths that plagued the town during their childhood have started up again, and it's up to this group of friends to stop the evil and mysterious It.
I wasn't a fan of this book. It took about 100 pages for me to really get in to it, only for it to drag the last 100 or so pages. It was hard to follow, between characters with similar names and the past and present time changes. It's very rare that I wish I would have just rented the movie!
Amanda England
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A portrait murder is a "sweet mystery." It involves a woman named Sally, her love interest Finn, her cousin Bree and Bree's daughter Alice. Bree gets tangled in a love triangle and the other woman wants her dead. Bree escapes a narrow hit! A fun and cute, but somewhat predictable mystery.
3 1/2 stars.
Jenni Passig