Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay -- A Book Review
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.Paris, May 2002: On Vel’ d’Hiv’s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'Hiv', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.
Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is out ToDAY!!
Also a very HAppy Birthday to our very own blogger Janet!!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Reader's Choice
No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay:
On the morning she will never forget, suburban teenager Cynthia Archer awakes with a nasty hangover and a feeling she is going to have an even nastier confrontation with her mom and dad. But when she leaves her bedroom, she discovers the house is empty, with no sign of her parents or younger brother Todd. In the blink of an eye, without any explanation, her family has simply disappeared. Twenty-five years later Cynthia is still haunted by unanswered questions. Were her family murdered? If so, why was she spared? And if they're alive, why did they abandon her in such a cruel way? Now married with a daughter of her own, Cynthia fears that her new family will be taken from her just as her first one was. And so she agrees to take part in a TV documentary revisiting the case, in the hope that somebody somewhere will remember something - or even that her father, mother or brother might finally reach out to her... Then a letter arrives which makes no sense and yet chills Cynthia to the core. And soon she begins to realise that stirring up the past could be the worst mistake she has ever made...
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My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler:
Monday, July 13, 2009
The White Tiger by Aravinda Adiga -- A Book Review
Friday, July 10, 2009
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein -- A Book Review
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Monday, July 6, 2009
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert -- A Book Review
Recommended by Kelly (http://pagesofthemind.weebly.com/friends.html)
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
July's Book Selection
By popular vote, this month's book club book is Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.
As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie.
It was there that he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. And he met Rosie, an untrainable elephant who was the great gray hope for this third-rate traveling show. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and, ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.
Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 1) By Charlaine Harris - A Reccomendation by Alicia
Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books By Francesca Lia Block- A Recommendation by Alicia
Cupcakes at Carrington’s by Alexandra Brown {book review}
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