Sunday, April 27, 2014

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) by J.K. Rowling

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This is a re-read. I am in the process of reading them with Joshua. He has heard them all on cd a bunch of times but now we are sitting toge...

The Twentieth Wife (Taj Mahal Trilogy, #1) by Indu Sundaresan

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Indu Sundaresan uses words in a lovely way to being to life the images of India from the late 1500's into the early 1600's. I enjoy...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet

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I was so surprised by reviews I read of this book that complained about the writing style. There were criticisms that said it was to dry, to...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Where We Belong by Emily Giffin

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Chick-Lit often gets a bad wrap. It's treated like junk food, tastes really good but not really worth the calories. But like any genre t...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

While We Were Watching Downton Abbey by Wendy Wax

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I was drawn to this because of the Downton Abbey connection. Three women, Claire, Samantha and Brooke, live in the same apartment on Peac...
Friday, March 21, 2014

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan

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You might expect that because this is a book about the creation of the atomic bomb and everything that went into compiling the materials nee...
Monday, March 17, 2014

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

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I don't even know where to begin in describing this book. It was gruesome. Painful. Spiritual. Lovely. A porno actor, director, writer...