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"Small Great Things"
my take: Whew. Almost quit on this one. Some of the content was so disturbing I wasn’t sure I wanted …
"August Snow"
my take: This was recommended by Nancy Pearl (Book Lust) recently. She mentioned that in these unsettling times in the …
"The Dry"
#drought
"The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend"
my take: Sara arrives in Broken Wheel, Iowa from Sweden ready to meet her pen-pal and take a little vacation …
"The Ramblers"
my take: As I was sorting through book piles, I came across this HARDCOVER book and asked hubby where & …
"Doc"
my take: This took a bit to get into and was well worth the wading at the outset. A combination …
"The Little Paris Bookshop"
my take: This book is a bit of an enigma. I really wanted to love this. Bookstore, Paris. What more …
"At The Water’s Edge"
my take: From the inexhuastible source of World War II comes a tale from the edge of Loch Ness. A …
"Night at the Fiestas"
my take: I don’t always love/like short stories. They’re so … brief? Just as I get emotionally attached to characters …
"Good on Paper"
my take: I picked this book based on a review that mentioned it was about language/translation which seemed like a …
"The Memory of Light"
my take: Thank you, Francisco X. Stork for writing this book. I cried when I read your author’s note at …
"How to Be Here"
my take: Part memoir, part pep talk, Rob Bell’s new book feels like he’s chatting with you giving you great …
"The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden"
my take: True confessions: I did not read this for book club. I knew I couldn’t make the September meeting, …
"Rising Strong"
my take: Daring Greatly was about being in the arena – engaging in life, going for it, trying and possibly …
"The Cleaner of Chartres"
my take: This is a quiet novel that runs deep. Agnes, the cleaner, appears to be a blank slate upon …
"The Fishermen"
my take: The upbeat cover of this book is deceptive … it is a colorful but oh-so-woe-full tale behind this …
"White Teeth"
my take: Every so often while reading I had to look back to the publishing date to double check that …
"The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy"
my take: Oh, I do love is kind of book…for every season and an especially great vacation read: an engaging …
"The Book of Jonah"
my take: In this is a modern re-telling of the Biblical book, Tarshish and Ninevah are replaced with New York …
