This was another tough book to read. She’s Come Undone is the story of Dolores told from the time she is young until she is a grown up. Dolores has parents who divorce when she is young and her mother becomes very depressed and sends Dolores to live with her grandmother until she is recovered. [...]
Archive > October 2009
Back Roads by Tawni O’Dell
This book is about a young man named Harley, who is 19-years old and trying to raise his three sisters, Amber, Misty and Jody. Harley is in this position because his mother is in jail for killing his father and he is trying to keep his sister’s from going into foster care or being split [...]
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
I grew up reading Judy Blume books. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret was one of those books all of my friends read and it pushed the envelope a little bit as far as youth books went for it’s frank discussion of the details of puberty. When I heard that Judy Blume had started [...]
The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
This is the newest book by Alice Hoffman and when I saw it at the library, I was excited to read it. It is a little bit darker than I prefer but it was still an interesting story. The Story Sisters is about Elizabeth “Elv”, Meg and Claire Story, three sisters being raised by their [...]
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Life of Pi is a book that gained great popularity soon after it was published in 2001. I read it because I had heard so much about it, and while I’m happy that I read it, it was of those interesting fantasy type books where I was never really sure how much of the adventure [...]
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
This book was an Oprah’s Book Club Selection in 1997. It is the story of a girl named Ninah whose grandfather had founded a church called The Church of Fire and Brimstone and God’s Almighty Baptizing Wind. This is a very small, close knit community that lives simply, works hard, and worships the Lord waiting [...]
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo is the journal that Paula Huntley kept when she and her husband moved from San Francisco to Prishtina, Kosovo in 2000, right after much of the conflict ended in Kosovo. Paula’s husband was going to work on the legal system and bring it up to par. Paula wanted to [...]
Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg
This is another book that’s about loss…and the process of starting over after a loss. In my real life I work as a social worker for a hospice program so this is a topic I encounter a lot. I truly enjoyed how Elizebeth Berg wrote about the life of Helen Ames and the process of [...]