- gods in Alabama (Joshilyn Jackson)
- Half of a Yellow Sun (Adichie)
- Songs in Ordinary Time (Mary McGarry Morris)
- Cellist of Sarajevo, The (Steven Galloway)
- Beneath the Pines by Janet Beard
Half of a Yellow Sun
Least Favorite Book:
Songs in Ordinary Times (especially since it stole 2 weeks' worth of reading time!)
Where I Played:
Weekly Geeks
• Favorites Published in 2008* (post your own list of top books of 2008 on your blog and comment at Weekly Geeks for a chance to win a box of books!)
• Week of Quotes (Quote #5 here, Quote #4 here, Quote #3 here, Quote #2 here, Quote #1 here.)
Sunday Scribblings
• Weddings
• Coffee
Sunday Salon
• Plugging Away and On the List
• Challenge Challenged
• Book Overload
• War-Torn and Carnival
Booking Through Thursday
• Autumn Reading
Just Check Out From the Library:
• House at Riverton by K. Morton (reviewed by CaribousMom)
• Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Irene Spencer (Reviewed at Maw Books)
• Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
• Hope's Boy by Andrew Bridge
• Run by Ann Patchett
Currently Reading:
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
2 comments:
The Cellist of Sarajevo is one that's been on my list for ages and I haven't gotten around to it yet. I clicked on your review and what your comment about hope at the end reminded me of Recovering Charles, a novel by Jason F. Wright. It's also a great story of hope, and faith, and second chances that's set in more recent times -- post-Katrina New Orleans. If you get a chance to read it, I think you'd really enjoy it.
You did good. I read 31 short stories and two books. Not bad after two months of reading slump.
Here is my SS post!
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