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I can totally see that although I haven't read 50 and don't plan to.
I also sometimes read in gluts but over the years I've learned, partly through book clubs, which are mostly online, to read a variety. I enjoy it more that way.
I also sometimes read in gluts but over the years I've learned, partly through book clubs, which are mostly online, to read a variety. I enjoy it more that way.
Not sure where to put this, but anyone who can pick up bbc radio four might be interested in a short serious of fifteen minute programmes they have had on reading matter impact on how we shape ourselves, and see women in society today, covering things including fairy tales and fifty shades called 'the misogyny book club' . Of course, for many of us it will both have points we agree and disagree with raised.
Reading....I read in gluts....often gorging on a genre. When I move to another though, it feels much better.
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For me, I think it depends more on how life in general is working for me.
When I have tough things to chew in life, I go back and re-read old favourites, I read lighter stuff or I stick to non-fiction.
I usually have several books going at the same time.
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I read that book too and am a big fan of Lang, Lang!
I read at least two books at a time, lunch at work and bedtime, sometimes more. I like mixing them up as well..
I read at least two books at a time, lunch at work and bedtime, sometimes more. I like mixing them up as well..
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The Bone Yard by Jefferson Bass 4/5 forensic mystery according to google.
This one was very disturbing. That and making up time at work made it difficult to finish as it was nightmare producing, it was a bad choice for my night time book. Still it was just as good as the prior ones by my author of the year. Two more to go.
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In this latest thriller from New York Times bestselling author Jefferson Bass, Dr. Bill Brockton discovers the dark side of the Sunshine state when he's called in to investigate human remains found on the grounds of a boys' reform school in Florida.
The onset of summer brings predictably steamy weather to the Body Farm, Dr. Bill Brockton's human-decomposition research facility at the University of Tennessee. But Brockton's about to get more heat than he's bargained for when Angie St. Claire, a forensic analyst with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, asks him to help prove that her sister's death was not suicide, but murder.
Brockton's quick consulting trip takes a long, harrowing detour when bones begin turning up amid the pines and live oaks of the Florida panhandle. Two adolescent skulls–ravaged by time and animals, but bearing the telltale signs of lethal fractures–send Brockton, Angie, and Special Agent Stu Vickery on a search for the long-lost victims. The quest leads them to the ruins of the North Florida Boys' Reformatory, a notorious juvenile detention facility that met a fiery end more than forty years ago.
Guided by the discovery of a diary kept by one of the school's young "students," Brockton's team finds a cluster of shallow graves, all of them containing the bones of boys who suffered violent deaths. The graves confirm one of the diary's grim claims: that one wrong move could land a boy in the Bone Yard. But as the investigation expands, it encounters opposition from the local sheriff, who's less than delighted to find forensic experts from the state capital and the Body Farm digging up dirt in his county.
As Brockton and his team close in on the truth, they find skeletons in some surprisingly prominent closets . . . and they learn that the ghosts of the past pose perilous consequences in the present.
49.) That Was Then, This Is Now by S. E. Hinton 4/5 coming-of-age young adult novel
I'm not terribly fond of coming of age novels but for the popsugar challenge I needed a title with anagram in it. I tried other books but finally settled on this one, in part because it was short and in part because The Outsiders which I read with a teen book club I mentored was decent.
All in all it was dark, disturbing and not my favorite but at the same time it was a solid Y.A. novel. I'm not sorry I read it. I just wish there had been more to it that was positive.
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Does growing up have to mean growing apart?
Since childhood, Bryon and Mark have been as close as brothers. Now things are changing. Bryon's growing up, spending a lot of time with girls, and thinking seriously about who he wants to be. Mark still just lives for the thrill of the moment. The two are growing apart - until Bryon makes a shocking discovery about Mark. Then Bryon faces a terrible decision - one that will change both of their lives forever
This one was very disturbing. That and making up time at work made it difficult to finish as it was nightmare producing, it was a bad choice for my night time book. Still it was just as good as the prior ones by my author of the year. Two more to go.
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In this latest thriller from New York Times bestselling author Jefferson Bass, Dr. Bill Brockton discovers the dark side of the Sunshine state when he's called in to investigate human remains found on the grounds of a boys' reform school in Florida.
The onset of summer brings predictably steamy weather to the Body Farm, Dr. Bill Brockton's human-decomposition research facility at the University of Tennessee. But Brockton's about to get more heat than he's bargained for when Angie St. Claire, a forensic analyst with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, asks him to help prove that her sister's death was not suicide, but murder.
Brockton's quick consulting trip takes a long, harrowing detour when bones begin turning up amid the pines and live oaks of the Florida panhandle. Two adolescent skulls–ravaged by time and animals, but bearing the telltale signs of lethal fractures–send Brockton, Angie, and Special Agent Stu Vickery on a search for the long-lost victims. The quest leads them to the ruins of the North Florida Boys' Reformatory, a notorious juvenile detention facility that met a fiery end more than forty years ago.
Guided by the discovery of a diary kept by one of the school's young "students," Brockton's team finds a cluster of shallow graves, all of them containing the bones of boys who suffered violent deaths. The graves confirm one of the diary's grim claims: that one wrong move could land a boy in the Bone Yard. But as the investigation expands, it encounters opposition from the local sheriff, who's less than delighted to find forensic experts from the state capital and the Body Farm digging up dirt in his county.
As Brockton and his team close in on the truth, they find skeletons in some surprisingly prominent closets . . . and they learn that the ghosts of the past pose perilous consequences in the present.
49.) That Was Then, This Is Now by S. E. Hinton 4/5 coming-of-age young adult novel
I'm not terribly fond of coming of age novels but for the popsugar challenge I needed a title with anagram in it. I tried other books but finally settled on this one, in part because it was short and in part because The Outsiders which I read with a teen book club I mentored was decent.
All in all it was dark, disturbing and not my favorite but at the same time it was a solid Y.A. novel. I'm not sorry I read it. I just wish there had been more to it that was positive.
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Does growing up have to mean growing apart?
Since childhood, Bryon and Mark have been as close as brothers. Now things are changing. Bryon's growing up, spending a lot of time with girls, and thinking seriously about who he wants to be. Mark still just lives for the thrill of the moment. The two are growing apart - until Bryon makes a shocking discovery about Mark. Then Bryon faces a terrible decision - one that will change both of their lives forever
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Glad to hear you have two books right now that you like!
I have stopped listening to go set a watchman because I have decided I care enough to read it. Now I just have to wait for copies to appear in charity shops or amazon kindle special offer
However, I have something uncharacteristic and picked up a self help book ( not a genre I enjoy) that was in the house. Its quite 'spiritual' and philosophical in bent. And its surprising me by really speaking to me, in some ways I find quite uncomfortable, and some ways I feel I very much understand. If I feel the same at the end I'll update. Its hard for me to read a book slowly, which is a request of this book.
If any one cannot wait for me to decide whether its had impact on me or not, I can certainly recommend the first parts as worth reading for asking onself some questions. Its called the beautiful life and by simon parke, ( whose career path seems quite interesting)
E.g. A quote that would almost make a contentious thread here:" the awake do not need rules , for they spontaneously create appropriate ways as the setting demands" ( coming after a line about ego). Now I doubt BDSM was anywhere at all in the mind of this man, and there are places where I think rules are really helpful. Laws like.....you know....don't kill people. Or.....its a bad idea to build houses on sites where nature is special or land unsuitable so we might make some rules about that....but I was thinking about the rules and rituals in my life, and which are helpful and maybe which are not. And what my life would be like a little less imposed on by self rule perhaps. this is acceptable in our construct of relationship because G does not foresee imposing set 'rules' .... Although no one lives without someone's rules......refuse collection dates. Highway codes. Tax.
Sorry......blathering.....but its interesting to me.
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Night of the Living Trekkies by Kevin David Anderson 4/5
What a fun romp. I love a good zombit novel, enjoy Star Trek and in the past, have enjoying gaming cons so this book is a total winner for me.
Amazon sez:
Journey to the final frontier of sci-fi zombie horror!
Jim Pike was the world’s biggest Star Trek fan—until two tours of duty in Afghanistan destroyed his faith in the human race. Now he sleepwalks through life as the assistant manager of a small hotel in downtown Houston.
But when hundreds of Trekkies arrive in his lobby for a science-fiction convention, Jim finds himself surrounded by costumed Klingons, Vulcans, and Ferengi—plus a strange virus that transforms its carriers into savage, flesh-eating zombies!
As bloody corpses stumble to life and the planet teeters on the brink of total apocalypse, Jim must deliver a ragtag crew of fanboys and fangirls to safety. Dressed in homemade uniforms and armed with prop phasers, their prime directive is to survive. But how long can they last in the ultimate no-win scenario?
Reserved for the Cat: An elemental Masters Novel by Mercedes Lackey 4/5
I did not realize it was book five in this series. If I had I might have read book one. I'm glad I read this one. It started a bit slow but by the end I was very happy I'd chosen it. I gave it a 4/5.
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Based loosely on the tale of Puss in Boots, Reserved for the Cat takes place in 1910 in an alternate London. A young dancer, penniless and desperate, is sure she is going mad when a cat begins talking to her mind-to-mind. But her feline guide, actually an Elemental Earth Spirit, helps her to impersonate a famous Russian ballerina and achieve the success shes been dreaming of. Unfortunately she also attracts the attention of another Elemental Spirit a far more threatening one and the young dancer must once again turn to her mysteriously powerful four-legged furry friend.
Bite Me by Christopher Moore 5/5
The third in a funny series about vampires. Love!
Amazon sez:
The undead rise again in Bite Me, the third book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s wonderfully twisted vampire saga. Joining his farcical gems Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck, Moore’s latest in continuing story of young, urban, nosferatu style love, is no Twilight—but rather a tsunami of the irresistible outrageousness that has earned him the appellation, “Stephen King with a whoopee cushion and a double-espresso imagination” from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and inspired Denver’s Rocky Mountain News to declare him, “the 21st century’s best satirist.”
Fighting to Survive by Rhiannon Frater 4.5/5
Second in a series that I am really enjoying. They had me at Thelma and Louise meet The Walking Dead. I can't wait to read the third one.
Amazon sez:
Picking up where The First Days ends, Fighting to Survive features the further zombie-killing, civilization-saving adventures of a pair of sexy, kick butt heroines and the men who love them. A hundred or so survivors of the zombie plague have found tenuous safety in the walled off center of a small Texas town. Now the hard work of survival begins--finding enough food; creating safe, weather-resistant shelter; establishing laws; and fighting off both the undead who want to eat them and the living bandits who want to rob and kill them.
Fighting to Survive won the Dead Letter Award for Best Novel from Mail Order Zombie. The first book in the As the World Dies trilogy, The First Days also won the Dead Letter Award and was named one of the Best Zombie Books of the Decade by the Harrisburg Book Examiner. Tor Books began bringing this series to a wider audience with the Spring 2011 publication of The First Days.
Fifth Grave Past the Light by Darynda Jones 5/5
Again this is such a fun series and one of my faves. The fifth installment didn't disappoint! I can't wait to read another one! This series is about a grim reaper. She isn't so grim as just really sarcastic and funny.
Amazon sez:
Never underestimate the power of a woman
on a double espresso with a mocha latte chaser high.
--T-shirt
Charley Davidson isn't your everyday, run-of-the-mill grim reaper. She's more of a paranormal private eye/grim reaper extraordinaire. However, she gets sidetracked when the sexy, sultry son of Satan, Reyes Farrow, moves in next door. To further complicate matters, Reyes is her main suspect in an arson case. Charley has vowed to stay away from him until she can find out the truth…but then dead women start appearing in her apartment, one after another, each lost, confused, and terrified beyond reason. When it becomes apparent that her own sister, Gemma, is the serial killer's next target Charley has no choice but to ask for Reyes' help. Arsonist or not, he's the one man alive who could protect Gemma no matter who or what came at her. But he wants something in return. Charley. All of her, body and soul. And to keep her sister safe, it is a price she is willing to pay.
Charley Davidson is at it again in Fifth Grave Past the Light, the sexy, suspenseful, and laugh-out-loud funny fifth installment of the New York Times bestselling series by Darynda Jones.
What a fun romp. I love a good zombit novel, enjoy Star Trek and in the past, have enjoying gaming cons so this book is a total winner for me.
Amazon sez:
Journey to the final frontier of sci-fi zombie horror!
Jim Pike was the world’s biggest Star Trek fan—until two tours of duty in Afghanistan destroyed his faith in the human race. Now he sleepwalks through life as the assistant manager of a small hotel in downtown Houston.
But when hundreds of Trekkies arrive in his lobby for a science-fiction convention, Jim finds himself surrounded by costumed Klingons, Vulcans, and Ferengi—plus a strange virus that transforms its carriers into savage, flesh-eating zombies!
As bloody corpses stumble to life and the planet teeters on the brink of total apocalypse, Jim must deliver a ragtag crew of fanboys and fangirls to safety. Dressed in homemade uniforms and armed with prop phasers, their prime directive is to survive. But how long can they last in the ultimate no-win scenario?
Reserved for the Cat: An elemental Masters Novel by Mercedes Lackey 4/5
I did not realize it was book five in this series. If I had I might have read book one. I'm glad I read this one. It started a bit slow but by the end I was very happy I'd chosen it. I gave it a 4/5.
Amazon sez:
Based loosely on the tale of Puss in Boots, Reserved for the Cat takes place in 1910 in an alternate London. A young dancer, penniless and desperate, is sure she is going mad when a cat begins talking to her mind-to-mind. But her feline guide, actually an Elemental Earth Spirit, helps her to impersonate a famous Russian ballerina and achieve the success shes been dreaming of. Unfortunately she also attracts the attention of another Elemental Spirit a far more threatening one and the young dancer must once again turn to her mysteriously powerful four-legged furry friend.
Bite Me by Christopher Moore 5/5
The third in a funny series about vampires. Love!
Amazon sez:
The undead rise again in Bite Me, the third book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s wonderfully twisted vampire saga. Joining his farcical gems Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck, Moore’s latest in continuing story of young, urban, nosferatu style love, is no Twilight—but rather a tsunami of the irresistible outrageousness that has earned him the appellation, “Stephen King with a whoopee cushion and a double-espresso imagination” from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and inspired Denver’s Rocky Mountain News to declare him, “the 21st century’s best satirist.”
Fighting to Survive by Rhiannon Frater 4.5/5
Second in a series that I am really enjoying. They had me at Thelma and Louise meet The Walking Dead. I can't wait to read the third one.
Amazon sez:
Picking up where The First Days ends, Fighting to Survive features the further zombie-killing, civilization-saving adventures of a pair of sexy, kick butt heroines and the men who love them. A hundred or so survivors of the zombie plague have found tenuous safety in the walled off center of a small Texas town. Now the hard work of survival begins--finding enough food; creating safe, weather-resistant shelter; establishing laws; and fighting off both the undead who want to eat them and the living bandits who want to rob and kill them.
Fighting to Survive won the Dead Letter Award for Best Novel from Mail Order Zombie. The first book in the As the World Dies trilogy, The First Days also won the Dead Letter Award and was named one of the Best Zombie Books of the Decade by the Harrisburg Book Examiner. Tor Books began bringing this series to a wider audience with the Spring 2011 publication of The First Days.
Fifth Grave Past the Light by Darynda Jones 5/5
Again this is such a fun series and one of my faves. The fifth installment didn't disappoint! I can't wait to read another one! This series is about a grim reaper. She isn't so grim as just really sarcastic and funny.
Amazon sez:
Never underestimate the power of a woman
on a double espresso with a mocha latte chaser high.
--T-shirt
Charley Davidson isn't your everyday, run-of-the-mill grim reaper. She's more of a paranormal private eye/grim reaper extraordinaire. However, she gets sidetracked when the sexy, sultry son of Satan, Reyes Farrow, moves in next door. To further complicate matters, Reyes is her main suspect in an arson case. Charley has vowed to stay away from him until she can find out the truth…but then dead women start appearing in her apartment, one after another, each lost, confused, and terrified beyond reason. When it becomes apparent that her own sister, Gemma, is the serial killer's next target Charley has no choice but to ask for Reyes' help. Arsonist or not, he's the one man alive who could protect Gemma no matter who or what came at her. But he wants something in return. Charley. All of her, body and soul. And to keep her sister safe, it is a price she is willing to pay.
Charley Davidson is at it again in Fifth Grave Past the Light, the sexy, suspenseful, and laugh-out-loud funny fifth installment of the New York Times bestselling series by Darynda Jones.
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The Queen of Zombie Hearts by Gena Showalter 4/5
I've enjoyed each installment of these Y.A. urban supernatural books. I'm not a huge fan of Alice in Wonderland but this series is fun and the dialog is pretty awesome.
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I have a plan.
We'll either destroy them for good, or they'll destroy us.
Either way, only one of us is walking away.
In the stunning conclusion to the wildly popular White Rabbit Chronicles, Alice "Ali" Bell thinks the worst is behind her. She's ready to take the next step with boyfriend Cole Holland, the leader of the zombie slayers…until Anima Industries, the agency controlling the zombies, launches a sneak attack, killing four of her friends. It's then she realizes that humans can be more dangerous than monsters…and the worst has only begun.
As the surviving slayers prepare for war, Ali discovers she, too, can control the zombies…and she isn't the girl she thought she was. She's connected to the woman responsible for killing—and turning—Cole's mother. How can their relationship endure? As secrets come to light, and more slayers are taken or killed, Ali will fight harder than ever to bring down Anima—even sacrificing her own life for those she loves.
I've enjoyed each installment of these Y.A. urban supernatural books. I'm not a huge fan of Alice in Wonderland but this series is fun and the dialog is pretty awesome.
Goodreads sez:
I have a plan.
We'll either destroy them for good, or they'll destroy us.
Either way, only one of us is walking away.
In the stunning conclusion to the wildly popular White Rabbit Chronicles, Alice "Ali" Bell thinks the worst is behind her. She's ready to take the next step with boyfriend Cole Holland, the leader of the zombie slayers…until Anima Industries, the agency controlling the zombies, launches a sneak attack, killing four of her friends. It's then she realizes that humans can be more dangerous than monsters…and the worst has only begun.
As the surviving slayers prepare for war, Ali discovers she, too, can control the zombies…and she isn't the girl she thought she was. She's connected to the woman responsible for killing—and turning—Cole's mother. How can their relationship endure? As secrets come to light, and more slayers are taken or killed, Ali will fight harder than ever to bring down Anima—even sacrificing her own life for those she loves.
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I've enjoyed the Elemental Masters series (retold fairy tales with a few twists). I honestly can't think of anything Misty has written that I've disliked, but her urban fantasy stories have been my favorites.
I'm currently almost finished with Tanya Huff's The Enchantment Emporium. It is the first in a trilogy about a family containing strong-character female witches, in particular one who is coming into additional abilities as she tries to live on her own. Huff has a persistent and irresistible snark in most of her books, wonderfully apparent in this one. I'll definitely be reading the other two when I'm finished with this one. I wanted something fairly light but not total fluff, and this has fit the bill.
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The ocean at the end of the lane, by Neil Gaiman.
I love it.
I love it.
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I read the enchantment series not too long ago.
LOL It makes me feel grateful for a small, dispersed family. That much influence/interference would make me (more) nuts!
I'm on to a book that Master has already finished (he got a head start). Anne Hillerman's Spider Woman's Daughter. Anne has picked up where her father left off creating police-centered mysteries on the Navajo Reservation/Four Corners area of the southwest. She paints the area with the same loving brush as her dad, and is giving us both a serious case of wanderlust. As luck would have it, we were cleaning out a neglected book-case last week, and found the official Tony Hillerman's Southwest map I'd bought the last time we were up there, several years ago.
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Glad you enjoyed it!
I will have to check out the Huff series too!
I tend towards Sci-Fi over fantasy. That said, I absolutely love her Valor series. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes a strong female lead, interesting future-science, quirky anthropology, and a snarky sense of humor. Her vampire series (the Blood books) is pretty good too, but Valor is my favorite.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it too!
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Oops! I did it again. Read a high page count book that is. I started this book at the beach on my last day there. Due to the shit storm I walked back into that Monday it's taken my some time to read it and it's been driving me nuts to have more reading time but it's also a 500+ page book.
Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good by Jan Karon Not sure what genre this fits? For me it's warm and fuzzy. I chose it to be comforting because I new going back to work and what was facing me would be difficult. As always, I enjoyed this Mitford and/or Father Tim book even though I'm not religious at all and the book is.
I love the idea of a small community that takes care of it's own. Of clergy who question their own faith yet manage to reach out to others in a helpful not judging way. The world Karon creates is one I wouldn't mind living in even though it's a small town that is sometimes snowed in. I generally prefer more going on around me but in this, it takes a village, place, there is more simply because people are dedicated to paying attention and looking out for others. Love the title too, who doesn't want that?
Amazon sez:
"Karon knits Mitford's small-town characters and multiple story lines into a cozy sweater of a book.... Somewhere Safe hits the sweet spot at the intersection of your heart and your funny bone. 4/4 stars" — USA Today
"Welcome home, Mitford fans...to Karon's gift for illuminating the struggles that creep into everyday lives—along with a vividly imagined world." —People
"The faster and more impersonal the world becomes, the more we need...Mitford."— Cleveland Plain Dealer
After five hectic years of retirement from Lord’s Chapel, Father Tim Kavanagh returns with his wife, Cynthia, from a so-called pleasure trip to the land of his Irish ancestors.
While glad to be at home in Mitford, something is definitely missing: a pulpit. But when he’s offered one, he decides he doesn’t want it. Maybe he’s lost his passion.
His adopted son, Dooley, wrestles with his own passion—for the beautiful and gifted Lace Turner, and his vision to become a successful country vet. Dooley’s brother, Sammy, still enraged by his mother’s abandonment, destroys one of Father Tim’s prized possessions. And Hope Murphy, owner of Happy Endings bookstore, struggles with the potential loss of her unborn child and her hard-won business.
All this as Wanda’s Feel Good Café opens, a romance catches fire through an Internet word game, their former mayor hatches a reelection campaign to throw the bums out, and the weekly Muse poses a probing inquiry: Does Mitford still take care of its own?
Millions of fans will applaud the chance to spend time, once more, in the often comic and utterly human presence of Jan Karon’s characters. Indeed, they have never been more sympathetic, bighearted, and engaging.
Genre: Christian Fiction
Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
Genre: Challenged, Coming of age, LBGT
This sweet book was less tragic than most of the LBGT things I've read. I guess the 80s were a little more hopeful. I am glad I read it. Though I dreaded the outcome of the book it ended on an bit of an up note.
Amazon sez:
This groundbreaking book, first published in 1982, is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings.
Of the author and the book, the Margaret A. Edwards Award committee said, "Nancy Garden has the distinction of being the first author for young adults to create a lesbian love story with a positive ending. Using a fluid, readable style, Garden opens a window through which readers can find courage to be true to themselves."
The 25th Anniversary Edition features a full-length interview with the author by Kathleen T. Horning, Director of the Cooperative Children's Book Center. Ms. Garden answers such revealing questions as how she knew she was gay, why she wrote the book, censorship, and the book's impact on readers - then and now.
Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good by Jan Karon Not sure what genre this fits? For me it's warm and fuzzy. I chose it to be comforting because I new going back to work and what was facing me would be difficult. As always, I enjoyed this Mitford and/or Father Tim book even though I'm not religious at all and the book is.
I love the idea of a small community that takes care of it's own. Of clergy who question their own faith yet manage to reach out to others in a helpful not judging way. The world Karon creates is one I wouldn't mind living in even though it's a small town that is sometimes snowed in. I generally prefer more going on around me but in this, it takes a village, place, there is more simply because people are dedicated to paying attention and looking out for others. Love the title too, who doesn't want that?
Amazon sez:
"Karon knits Mitford's small-town characters and multiple story lines into a cozy sweater of a book.... Somewhere Safe hits the sweet spot at the intersection of your heart and your funny bone. 4/4 stars" — USA Today
"Welcome home, Mitford fans...to Karon's gift for illuminating the struggles that creep into everyday lives—along with a vividly imagined world." —People
"The faster and more impersonal the world becomes, the more we need...Mitford."— Cleveland Plain Dealer
After five hectic years of retirement from Lord’s Chapel, Father Tim Kavanagh returns with his wife, Cynthia, from a so-called pleasure trip to the land of his Irish ancestors.
While glad to be at home in Mitford, something is definitely missing: a pulpit. But when he’s offered one, he decides he doesn’t want it. Maybe he’s lost his passion.
His adopted son, Dooley, wrestles with his own passion—for the beautiful and gifted Lace Turner, and his vision to become a successful country vet. Dooley’s brother, Sammy, still enraged by his mother’s abandonment, destroys one of Father Tim’s prized possessions. And Hope Murphy, owner of Happy Endings bookstore, struggles with the potential loss of her unborn child and her hard-won business.
All this as Wanda’s Feel Good Café opens, a romance catches fire through an Internet word game, their former mayor hatches a reelection campaign to throw the bums out, and the weekly Muse poses a probing inquiry: Does Mitford still take care of its own?
Millions of fans will applaud the chance to spend time, once more, in the often comic and utterly human presence of Jan Karon’s characters. Indeed, they have never been more sympathetic, bighearted, and engaging.
Genre: Christian Fiction
Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
Genre: Challenged, Coming of age, LBGT
This sweet book was less tragic than most of the LBGT things I've read. I guess the 80s were a little more hopeful. I am glad I read it. Though I dreaded the outcome of the book it ended on an bit of an up note.
Amazon sez:
This groundbreaking book, first published in 1982, is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings.
Of the author and the book, the Margaret A. Edwards Award committee said, "Nancy Garden has the distinction of being the first author for young adults to create a lesbian love story with a positive ending. Using a fluid, readable style, Garden opens a window through which readers can find courage to be true to themselves."
The 25th Anniversary Edition features a full-length interview with the author by Kathleen T. Horning, Director of the Cooperative Children's Book Center. Ms. Garden answers such revealing questions as how she knew she was gay, why she wrote the book, censorship, and the book's impact on readers - then and now.
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Glad you are enjoying them! I have on bedside right now!
I am, although I cried at the end of number three.
L
