Book Reviews and a Little More…
Two great tastes that taste great together! Since I had a snow day today (see: my back deck), I’ve been trying to be productive. This here blog has been kinda quiet this week, so I’m combining my Sunday Salon and Mailbox Monday posts into one giant extravaganza! Can you believe it’s March already? February was a great reading month for me. I finished and reviewed:
Read moreMade it by the skin of my teeth! Only one book in my mailbox this week: Pretties is the second book in Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies series. No, I haven’t read the first one yet, but I put basically all of Westerfeld’s books on my PBS wishlist and have been snagging them as they come available. I actually should have had this a couple of weeks
Read moreSeventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow African immigrants who share his bitter nostalgia and longing for his home continent. Years ago and worlds away Sepha could never have imagined a life of such isolation. As his environment begins to change, hope comes in the form of a friendship with new neighbors Judith and Naomi, a white woman and her biracial daughter. But when a series of racial incidents disturbs the community, Sepha may lose everything all over again.
Read moreHarper Connelly heads to Doraville, North Carolina, to find a missing boy—one of several teenage boys who have disappeared over the last five years. And all of them are calling for Harper. She finds them, buried in the frozen ground. Soon Harper will learn more than she cared to about the dark mysteries and long-hidden secrets of Doraville—knowledge of the dead that makes her next in line to end up in an ice-cold grave.
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