Today I’m writing about one of my favorite books. The Poisonwood Bible was an Oprah’s Book Club selection in June 2000. This story is about a man named Nathan Price who takes his family (of four daughters) to the Belgian Congo in 1959. He is a Baptist missionary and he is burning with the desire [...]
Archive > September 2009
In The Woods by Tana French
I got this book based on the recommendation of a librarian. In the Woods is the debut novel of Irish author, Tana French. She also has recently written The Likeness which I believe has some of the same characters as this first novel. This is a story that takes place in Ireland. It is a [...]
Blink by Malcom Gladwell
I’m getting ready to read another book about decision making so I thought I should write about Blink first. Blink is written by Malcolm Gladwell about the split second decisions that people make every day. He addresses the idea that people think the more information and time they have before making decisions, the better, when [...]
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
I’m visiting an old favorite of mine by writing about The Red Tent. This is a historical fiction that tells the story of Dinah, the only daughter of Jacob, who is only mentioned briefly in the Bible. Dinah is the one that her mothers (Leah, Rachel, Zilpah and Bilah) pass their stories too. During the [...]
I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass
As those following this blog may know, I recently wrote about Three Junes by Julia Glass which was a book that I thoroughly enjoyed. I came across I See You Everywhere at the library and immediately got it, feeling excited about a new Julia Glass book. Unfortunately, it didn’t leave me with the same connection [...]
The Law of Similars by Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian does a wonderful job about writing stories about moral issues and the legal drama that sometimes comes from them. The Law of Similars takes place in a small town in Vermont and follows the life of a lawyer, Leland Fowler, after the death of his wife. Leland is a single parent doing everything [...]
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha is a book that I first came across about ten years ago…and fell absolutely in love with it. This is a beautiful story about a young girl who is sent away from her family during a time of hardship to Kyoto, Japan where she grows to be one of the most [...]
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
I started reading this book and loved it right from the start. This is the story of a woman (Alice) who becomes the First Wife and she chronicles her life and how she got to such a position. She starts in her childhood in Riley, Wisconsin and a tragic accident that she was involved in [...]
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
I’ve already written about The Sparrow and how much I enjoyed that book even though it wasn’t my typical reading genre. Children of God is the sequel and picks up where The Sparrow left off with Emilio Sanchez recovering at the Society of Jesuits compound from his experience on the planet Rakhart. Since that time [...]
Passing For Thin by Frances Kuffel
Weight loss and dieting are a huge industry in the United States. I recently read that Americans spend up to $46 billion dollars a year on dieting products and self-help books. It also said that 1/3 or American adults are overweight. There are also television shows such as Biggest Loser that bring our attention to [...]
