Bury Your Dead
Looking For Me
Cottage at Glass BeachAuthor: Sonia Sotomayor Publisher: Knopf, January 2013/Ramdom House Audio Format: Audiobook, Read by Rita Moreno Genre: Memoir My Rating: A+ Some of us believe that the people who sit in positions of power are born with a silver spoon in their mouths. They are wrong. Sonia Sotomayor’s life proves that there are outstanding exceptions to [...]
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Hi! My name is Margot. My blog is about the things I love to do. That could be what I'm reading, places we visit, my family, food, or whatever else is happening. I hope you'll stay and visit a while.
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Author: Ann B. Ross Publisher: Viking Books, 2008 Genre: My Rating: C- One of the people who works at the library, not my favorite librarian, handed me this book. She said, “This book is wildly popular among the older ladies.” That was my first clue. I thought I read only books I picked myself. I [...] Author: John Grisham Publisher: Doubleday, 2008 Genre: Legal Thriller My Rating: A I set a goal for myself for 2013. I promised myself I would try to write my own summary of every book I review this year. When it came to this book, The Appeal, I really did try. The plot is very complicated [...] A couple of weeks ago a friend took several vacation days from work so she and her daughter (along with nieces and cousins) could spend days making ravioli – hundreds of them. It’s a tradition they’ve done every year a few weeks before Easter. A friend of my mom’s used to do the same with [...] Author: T.C. Boyle Publisher: Viking, 1995 Genre: Literary Fiction My Rating: A You are going to find me conflicted on this book. On one hand I loved the book and am so glad I read it. On the other hand, I disliked all the people in it and found them to be almost cartoonish in [...] Author: Rebecca Stead Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books, 2009 Genre: Young Adult Fiction Award Won: Newberry Medal Winner, 2010 My Rating: A Miranda is a twelve-year-old girl in New York City in the 1970s. She loves to read. Her favorite book is Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time. She loves it so much that she carries [...] Author: Agatha Christie Publisher: Harper Collins Genre: Mystery My Rating: A I’m a little over a third of the way through my quest to read all 87 of Agatha Christie’s novels and, frankly, I’ve been dragging in my enthusiasm to do so. Then, I found this ebook that is a nice overview of Agatha Christie’s [...] Author: Heather Lende Publisher: Algonquin Books, 2006 My Rating: A+ One of the best things about traveling, for me at least, is to try to absorb what it’s like to live in the place where I’m visiting. That’s why I like to linger at local diners, shop at local stores, and so forth. Engaging [...] Author: Karen Cushman Publisher: Clarion Books, 1996 Genre: Historical Fiction My Rating: A I have a fondness for books that have won or been nominated for the Newberry Award. These awards are given by the American Library Association annually for the most distinguished children’s books. Most of the books I’ve read and loved are aimed for [...] I chose to re-read this classic tale because of romantic memories from high school. I recall watching the boys in our literature class acting out the various scenes with pretend swords. They appeared so gallant, so brave and manly. I’m sure I did a lot of sighing. Fifty years later the romance is gone. What [...] |
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