Update: I read that this book sold out on Amazon within 4 days and had to be replenished! I don't even know where to start. This book is just that powerful. I've been putting off writing this review because I was trying to figure out how to put into words the impact it had on me and I've finally realized that I'm speechless. Absolutely speechless. And we all … [Read more...]
A New Life in 1982
Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you could go back and do it all over again? If you have, then you'll race through this book that does exactly that. Author (and singer/songwriter) Lori Carson's The Original 1982 is way of rewriting a woman's life after having an abortion (this is on page 3 and is all over Goodreads, so it's not a spoiler). Because the … [Read more...]
SheReads Pick: Orphan Train
SheReads blogger network, thanks to Traveling With T, who I'm fairly certain secured my invitation after the last Bloggiesta. After reading my first book for the club, I am even more excited than I was going into it!May's pick was Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, which weaves the stories of a troubled 17 year old foster kid, Molly, and Vivian, an elderly woman with a … [Read more...]
“Nightingale Palace” is Perfect
I loved, loved, loved this book. I so rarely say this so I want to put it at the beginning of this review. And , this is doubly exciting because I won it for free from LibraryThing. Not only did I race through this book, but I actually gasped - out loud - at the ending, which never happens (and usually when it does it's a gasp of anger at the author, not out of pleasure). What … [Read more...]