Book Review: Everyone is Beautiful

Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center I read the Kindle Version Genre: Fiction You might like this book: If you enjoy stories about motherhood, womanhood, and marriage, or if you are interested in reconsidering the idea of beauty in society today. This...

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Book Review: The Christmas Sweater

The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck I read the Kindle version. You may like this book: If you like stories of redemption, faith, finding joy after hard things happen, and sentimental Christmas stories. Okay, let's just get it out of the way. I like...

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Book Review: Nine Days a Queen

Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey Anne Rinaldi Genre: YA Historical Fiction You might like this book if you like history, especially English royal history, or if you like interesting female characters, or if you like learning...

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Book Review: The Anatomy of Peace

The Anatomy of Peaceby The Arbinger InstituteGenre: Self Help, specifically about PeacemakingNon-FictionAdultThe Arbinger Institute is a sort of think tank that applies its research and consulting to the subject of peacemaking. I've been interested in...

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Book Review: The Big Rock Candy Mountain

The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner:This is a beautifully written novel, large in scope, rich in emotion and ideas, and one I'll remember for a long time. It is the heartbreaking saga of a family during the first third of the 20th century....

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Book Review: Beauty by Robin McKinley

This turned out to be a really nice retelling of the very familiar story of Beauty and the Beast. I think that the Disney film was much influenced by some of the imagery in this book. The descriptions are lush and imaginative, but the world of the...

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Book Review: Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors Piers Paul Read Adult, Non-Fiction, Documentary You might like this book if: You enjoy survival stories, situations where group dynamics and working together are important, or you've heard of this story and are...

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Book Review: Moloka'i by Alan Brennert

Moloka'iAlan BrennertAdult Historical FictionI listened to the Audible audiobook. You might like this book if: You like historical fiction, you're interested in Hawaii, you like strong female characters, or sweeping stories that follow a character over...

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Book Review: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery Adult, Fiction, Translation I had this book in my possession for quite a while and then last month it was my bookclub's pick so I was motivated to dig it out of the pile and read. Just so you know, the author...

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Book Review: Yarn: Remembering the Way Home by Kyoko Mori

Yarn: Remembering the Way Home Kyoko Mori Memoir, Adult This one came my way due to the title since I love yarn.  Appropriately, I read it while away for the weekend at a knitting conference. It was a fairly fast read, and the skilled and quiet...

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Book Review: The Things They Carried

So, enough of the emotional CAT scans I've been writing. Here is a book review that I'm posting right on the front end because it was so compelling. Ironically, it is someone else's emotional CAT scan, laid out for all of us to read.The Things They...

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Book Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling Genre: YA Fiction/Fantasy You Might Like This Book: If you're breathing, for heaven's sake! Just read them all! Bloomsbury Audio Book, read by Stephen Fry I know I read this in the summer of 2007....

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Book Review: The Hunger Games

The Hunger GamesBy Suzanne CollinsYA FictionPost-Apocalyptic??? Dystopian??? You Decide...I really knew nothing about this book before I read it. I didn't buy the actual book, but instead downloaded it to listen to for my book group. Thus, I've seen...

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New Year Dreams

Happy New Year 2009!I resolve to lighten up this year, physically and mentally, to smile more, to worry less, to write less about stress and bother and more about joy and accomplishment, and to make sure I'm living life rather than just photographing...

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Book Review: Patriotic Grace

Patriotic GraceBy Peggy NoonanI really like Peggy Noonan. To me she has been a voice of calm and reason through the turmoil of the last few years in politics. She is always kind and reasonable, even if she disagrees with something. If you don't read...

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