Posted April 23, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The Girl Death Left Behind by
Lurlene McDaniel Publisher: Laurel Leaf (1999)
Paperback (176 pages)
Rating: Reading Challenges: 2015 Birthday Month,
2015 Re-Reading,
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Beth’s world has been torn apart. She cannot figure out how to go on when a car accident claims the lives of her entire family, and she is the only survivor. Things seem to get even worse when she moves in with her aunt and her spoiled cousin, Terri. But with the love and support of her aunt and some unexpected friends, Beth struggles to overcome the despair that threatens to consume her. Will she be able to move past the painful memories without feeling guilty for being a survivor?
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Posted April 22, 2015 in Faith, Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Story of a Soul by
St Therese of Lisieux Publisher: St Anthony Messenger Press (1896)
Audiobook {6 hours and 10 minutes} (306 pages)
Rating: Reading Challenges: 2015 Re-Reading,
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Sharing memories from early childhood through her life as a Carmelite nun, Therese opens her heart to us. This bride of Christ reveals her passion and longing for union with God. Her simplicity is charming and we begin to believe that we can travel the path to salvation that she points out to us.
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Posted April 20, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by
Holly Black Publisher: Little Brown Books (2013)
Audiobook {12 hours and 5 minutes} (419 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: The Darkest Part of the Forest,
The Queen of Nothing Synopsis
Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown’s gates, you can never leave.
One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.
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Posted April 16, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Siege and Storm by
Leigh Bardugo Series: The Grisha Trilogy #2 Publisher: Square Fish (2013)
Paperback (432 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Shadow and Bone,
Ruin and Rising,
Six of Crows Also in this series: Shadow and Bone,
Ruin and Rising Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. But she can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long.
The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against Ravka. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling’s game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. Somehow, she will have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always thought would guide her–or risk losing everything to the oncoming storm.
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Posted April 15, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
Number the Stars by
Lois Lowry Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell (1989)
Paperback (137 pages)
Rating: Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup,
2015 Re-Reading,
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Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It’s now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are “relocated”. Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen’s life.
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