Review:On the surface, Ariana's Amish family was typical for their small community of Summer Grove. Many siblings, in their teens or older milled about the kitchen in the early mornings getting ready for a full day of activities either with small children in tow or assisting those families with small children. Some like Ariana were preparing breakfast and others were getting ready to do chores. A contentedness pervaded the atmosphere most of the time. They enjoyed each others' company. But under the ma... Read more

Review:A heartwarming story filled with loveable characters and tons of emotional roller coasters that will have you laughing one minute and reaching for a tissue the next. An easy read that gives you a fulfilling happily ever after ending. Read more

Review:Wow, just wow. This is a story about friendship and love. I cried several times reading this book. I couldn't put it down.

The two MCs Isreal and Sam have been best friends since they were teenagers. Iz learns that he was switched at birth with another boy named Nick. We take this journey with Isreal as he meets his birth mother and deals with the parents that raised him. Thru it all Sam is his anchor. When Iz feels like his life is spinning out he has Sam. The bond between them was so s... Read more

Review:Nick Hornby
About a boy
London: Penguin Books, 1998
₤ 6, 99
0 141 00733 8
"...if Will can teach Marcus how to be a kid,
Marcus can help Will grow up..."
The title of the novel by Nick Hornby might make the reader think, that the story is about a little boy, but indeed the reader learns about two of them - Marcus, behaving very strangely and seriously at the age of twelve, and Will, who acts very chaotically and immaturely, although he is a man of 36 years.
It tu... Read more

Review:Having read About a Boy shortly after finishing Hornby's first novel High Fidelity, I have to say that while I liked this book, it didn't live up to the lofty standards of Hornby's brilliant debut. Hornby again provides a mid-30's male slacker as a protagonist, who feels empty when between relationships but who remains in tune with contemporary pop culture. He even has the protagonist, Will, meet a date in Rob's imaginary record store from High Fidelity, Championship Vinyl, as a playful ... Read more

Review:I purchased three books from this series. My 7 year old Granddaughter loves them, and I am relearning things that I have forgotten. She entertains both her Dad and myself with all the facts she's learning. I am going to purchase all of the rest of the series. Really great books. Read more

Review:We normally enjoy Geronimo Stilton books but OH MY! WHAT HAPPENED????? REALLY???? I tried, and tried to get into this one. Reading it out loud to my special needs teen age so whom we usually really enjoy reading about his adventures.... but this book had no storyline, to many descriptions and didn't go anywhere! Although they were on a boat trying to go somewhere... but I lost my son after the first few chapters but kept reading thinking it would get better but then when it lost me I just had t... Read more

Review:When I saw this book, I immediately wanted to read it. I'd been waiting a long time for Marian's next book!

But when I finally started reading it...ugh. Marian Keyes has dealt with some very serious subjects before -- drug addiction, psychological trauma, devastating illness, loss of a spouse -- so I was prepared to be dealing with some weighty subject matter. Marian can usually handle even the most serious stuff with wit and a tender touch. But this book...wow. It was really brutal. I me... Read more

Review:For me, this book contained a number of interesting smaller stories cleverly linked by the spectacle of Phillipe Petit's high wire walk between the twin towers back in the 1970s. Early on in the book I wasn't too sure where the story was going . . . it seemed a bit disjointed at times . . as if the author was making it up as he wrote without having a definite beginning,middle or end in mind.

Nevertheless some of the characters were very well drawn and overall it was worth the read. Read more

Review:Thirteen Ways of Looking, by Colum McCann, Penguin Random House, October 2015, hardback, 256 pages

This, the first of Mr. McCann's work I have read, has prompted me to add his earlier writing to my ever-growing TBR pile.

This collection -- a novella and three short stories -- is suffused with a sense of looming doom, lurking just beneath the surface, around the next corner, right outside the door, in a dangerous world where keeping personal track has become increasingly difficult e... Read more