Hello Readers and Friends,
This was a great month of great books! I would have to say my favorite this month is The Orphan Keeper, but Educated and Daisy Jones and the Six were good also. I was hoping to get a few more books in but I took a TV break in the middle of the month to catch up on my shows. I was several weeks behind!!
On a more personal note, I had the best weekend since the pandemic started. I had one of my best friends drive up from Houston. We talked a lot, ate a lot, and laughed even more. We had a blast and it's almost feeling normal again. My schedule is pretty open if you ever want to hang out. Just tell me then call the facility and ask for Amber to schedule 24 hours in advance (a rule that seems to hold no purpose). I look forward to as many visits as I can.
Let me know your thoughts if you read any of these books!
Sincerely Yours,
Carrie
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I heard lots of mixed reviews for this book. People have either loved or hated this memoir. Now I typically don't like non-fiction, but I really enjoyed this book. The author comes from a dysfunctional family where her father is afraid of anything having to do with the government , kids are not allowed to attend school neither do they have birth certificates, are not allowed to see the doctors, etc. The stories are unfathomable, heartbreaking, and scary! I would say it's worth the read.
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I was NOT expecting to like this book as much as I did. At first I could not figure out if this was fiction or non-fiction because it was written in such a clever way. This novel was composed as a written documentary of sorts. Following a young aspiring female song writer and a rock band in the seventies. The life of a musician is not only complicated by sex, drugs, and life on the road, but also by the relationships formed along the way. I don't want to spoil anything by saying anything else about the book. Consider listening to the audio book (I did both) you won't be disappointed by the all star cast!
I don't remember who recommended, but thank you!
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Such a great book! While fiction, the story is based off the real life of Taj Rowland. Taj was kidnapped from his life in India and sold to an orphanage for adoption by an American family who were told lies in order to secure the adoption. But there is so much more to the story besides the deceit: Taj's acclimation into American culture, the loss of his Indian culture, his journey in finding out the truth behind his adoption, and finding his lost family. A book definitely worth the read. Don't forget to read the Author's Notes at the end of the book!
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I really wish I had read these books as a kid. I think I would have loved them. They make me laugh, but I am reading them along with the audio book. If you have school age kids I highly recommend them. The narrator is excellent and they are super easy to download from the library with no waits!
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I don't think I read many Ramona books as a kid, but there is no time like the present to do something. They are quick fun reads for the lower grades. The fun part part of going back and reading these oldies is seeing how much has changed. In this book the two things that stuck out to me were 1. the library book only cost $2.50 to replace and 2. remember back in the day you could walk to the library without worrying about being kidnapped! I loved the idea that siblings "don't have to love each other all the time";however, I wouldn't have worded it like that. But I think we all understand what Ms. Cleary meant! Stay tuned for my thoughts and opinions on the others in the series especially if you have a young reader!
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Oh man, I am still processing this book , so until I do I am just going to give you a quick description of the book. The book was birthed in the 1950s. The author, a white man, took some medication that changed the pigment of his skin. He traveled the deep south to experience what it meant to be a black man at the time.
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I couldn't decide if this novel earns 3 or 4 stars, so you should read and decide for yourself. When We Left Cuba is the sequel to Next Year in Havana. Where book one introduces the family and dances around Elisa's characters, book two focuses on Beatriz. You begin to uncover the secrets surrounding her character that you wanted to know in the first book! It will leave you satisfied and curious t is in Book 3.
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I have mixed feelings about this book. I can't decide if i liked it or not. It was super creative story but I feel like it is missing something. It's like it just skimmed the surface of the adventures. I could see the movie being better than the book. Take with a grain of salt after all i am 40, not 12!
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I was so disappointed in this book. I had high hopes since the book follows a Colombian families and I had lived in Colombia for three years. The gist of the story is coming to the U.S. for better financial success, but the reality of it all. They have a daughter Born in Colombia but grows up in the US, one child who is born and grows up in the US, and a third child born in the US but grows up in Colombia due to circumstances. The problem I had with the book is (and perhaps this speaks more about my comprehension skills more than anything else) I could not figure out who was talking. It started off in third person and other times in first person. The story jumped around a lot and I feel left out big chunks. I have read a lot of really great books, but this was not one of them.
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When I started this book I read a comment from a Facebook group that it was a fast read despite it being an alien love story (not my genre). The review mentioned there were a lot of books in the series. What they failed to mentioned it was Fifty Shades meets aliens. But once I started I couldn't not finish. I wanted to know what happened to the humans. Just stay away unless this is a genre you love!
