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Family of six--one of the few!--in Bethesda MD.
Boo!
The Fam
Latest Library Checkouts
- Princess Sonora by Gail Carson Levine. She's one of my fave adolescent authors. If you haven't read Ella Enchanted--get to it!! This is cute, but not as good as EE.
- Nim's Island (one of Emma's library checkouts). Adorable.
- Personal History by Katherine Graham (ran the Wash. Post for years). Heavy tome, but a fascinating walk through the last fifty or so years of Beltway Politics (and she was thrust into the boys' club--and thrived). I liked it because I like politics and I live in DC. Unless you find these exciting, you might be bored :)
- Ahab's Wife/The Star-Gazer. Interesting take on the woman who might have married Ahab (of Moby Dick chasing fame). Not a light read, but good storytelling.
- The House of Sand & Fog. Good, but emotionally draining. Not really recommendable.
- Enchantment by Orson Scott Card. I love his books about women from the OT. This was a modern retelling of Sleeping Beauty. Adorable.
- The Whiteness of Bones. WEIRD!!!
- The Host (by the chick that wrote Twilight). My first foray into her stuff--good book. Totally recommend!!
- Wicked: weird. Verdict: save yourself loads of time & being weirded out. Just see the musical!!
- Anne of Green Gables: Adored it!! (how I'd not read this yet, I know not.)
- Life of Pi--we'll see how it is VERDICT: Amazing book--Highly recommend!!
- Atonement (so not what I thought) Spoiler Alert--mostly a WWII novel; not so much a love story
- A Prayer for Owen Meany GREAT
- Mermaid Chair --LAME!! summary: empty-nest mom commits adultery w/a monk. Nice.
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (rocked!)
- Taming the Flame (Hey--this is to hone my bbq skills)
- My Sister's Keeper by Judy Picoult WOW
- Lucy Sullivan's Getting Married by Marian Keyes (not as good as her book Watermelon)
- Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett--a whopper, but great
- The Friendship Test--new author, hmm VERDICT: dumb
- Can You Keep a Secret? By Sophie Kinsella (one of my fave authors)
2 comments:
Hey! I just got done reading The Host...it was good, but slow at times. You should start on the Twilight series, I really liked those books. I think now I'm gonna finish the Anne of Green Gables books, I've read the first 4...did you read all of them or just the first? They ARE adorable. Bremen is on an Orson Scott Card binge, eventually I'll start reading some of those ;)
just got your holiday letter... ours will go out, well, sometime soon. how much fun ya'll have had! no wonder you haven't kept up with your blog. i wouldn't either. reading?! i just bought a new one. i'll let ya know how it goes.
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