Alisonwonderland's Blog (5)

I just finished Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult. This is her most recent novel. I had wanted to read it as soon as it came out, so I put a "hold" on it at the library months ago. I am currently reading The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer, which I received from a publicist for review. I'm hoping to finish it within the next few days so I can get a review posted on my blog. The pick for my main book club for April is I, Coriander by Sally Gardner. The pic… Continue

The pick for my main IRL book club is High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. The pick for my church women's group book club is Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan. The pick for my book lunch group is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. In preparation for the first of a five-part Community Forum Series sponsored by the Rape Recovery Center on Feb… Continue

For my main IRL book club, I read Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. For my church women's group book club, I listened to The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls on CD. (I'd previously read the book in 2006.) For my new book lunch group, I read The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak - a book that had been on my to-read list for quite some time. I also read Team Moon by Catherine Thimmesh (a children's book about Apollo 11), The Rhyming Season… Continue

There are about seven weeks left in the Fall into Reading Challenge. My original list required an approximately two-books-a-week pace. In the six weeks already gone by, I've read about ten books - but even that many was thanks in large part to the read-a-thon. While I hope to spend some time reading during the Thanksgiving Break, I won't have the ability (or the desire) to read for twenty-four hours. I'd still like to get through twenty-five or twenty-six books by December 20 though - but that'l… Continue

Right now I'm working on Mermaids in the Basement, which is a Salt Lake County Reader's Choice pick. It's a quick read, and I'm having fun with it. I'm also reading Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far by Amy Grant. I'm not familiar with a lot of her work - except for the Christmas CD we listen to during the holidays. But I'm enjoying reading her essays - although the writing is somewhat uneven - interspersed with song lyrics. The pick for my IRL book club this month is The Simple… Continue