
Saturday, August 29, 2009
My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler - A Book Discussion

Friday, August 28, 2009
A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony -- A Recommendation

Thursday, August 27, 2009
President Obama's summer book list

• Plainsong by Kent Haruf, a drama about the life of eight different characters living in a Colorado prairie community.
I don't know about you, but The Way Home sounds pretty interesting! :)
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The Pact by Jodi Picoult -- A Recommendation

For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty-- they've grown so close it seems they have always been a part of each other's lives. Parents and children alike have been best friends, so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born.
So when midnight calls from the hospital come in, no one is ready for the appalling truth: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There's a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris took from his father's cabinet-- a bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a local detective has doubts about the suicide pact that Chris has described.
The profound questions faced by the characters in this heart-rending novel are those we can all relate to: How well do we ever really know our children, our friends? What if…? As its chapters unfold, alternating between an idyllic past and an unthinkable present, The Pact paints an indelible portrait of families in anguish… culminating in an astonishingly suspenseful courtroom drama as Chris finds himself on trial for murder.
With this riveting psychological drama, Jodi Picoult explores the dynamics of intimate relationships under stress-- from the seemingly inexplicable mind of a teenager to the bonds of friendship and marriage. Few writers have such a gift for evoking everyday life coupled with the ability to create a level of dramatic tension that will keep you up reading late into the night. The Pact is storytelling at its best: wonderfully observed, deeply moving, and utterly impossible to put down.
http://www.jodipicoult.com/the-pact.html
Monday, August 24, 2009
Stardust by Neil Gaiman -- A Book Review

Friday, August 21, 2009
What Mother's Do: Especially When it Looks like Nothing by Naomi Stadlen -- A Recommendation

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Reader's Choice September




Thursday, August 13, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Eesoo by Kathleen Boettcher -- A Recommendation by Melanie

Science fiction novel which blends adventure, romance, humor, and mystery. The first in a series of eight. Each novel is a complete story with continuing characters.
Kathleen Boettcher grew up in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Deciding small town living was not exciting enough, she began raising, training, and showing siberian huskies. That led to nationwide travel, dogsledding and intermingling with adventurous people. Horses were added to her life and after routine household duties were complete, racing through the woods on a dogsled or galloping across fields on horseback added joy and adventure. After a move to California curtailed daily excitement, she turned inward for adventure and began writing.
The Time Traveler's Wife in theatres August 14th!!!

The Official movie site: http://www.thetimetravelerswifemovie.com/
or
Youtube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USUDlMBR-dQ
Monday, August 3, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
August's Book Selection
The Winner of our Reader's Choice Poll
Many people feel like a one-night stand is something to be ashamed or embarrassed of. I disagree...' We've all (well not quite all, perhaps) had at least one: a one-night stand. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night-stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool. Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men...Lots of them. "My Horizontal Life" chronicles Chelsea's romps through the bedrooms of a host of potential suitors, uncovering what can happen in one night of passion between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated woman. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper named Thunder to her even shorter fling with a very short man, she recalls her myriad one-night stands with hilarious honesty. "My Horizontal Life" is a sensationally frank and funny memoir of sexual life, and a gloriously quirky take on why we do the things we do. Whether you have been there yourself or not, its one guilty pleasure you won't be ashamed to talk about in the morning...

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