I read 5 books this month, no audios though. : ( Desert Flower - Waris Dirie - B+ Non-fiction story about Waris, starting out as a young girl with her Nomad family in Somalia. She undergoes the female circumcision at age 5 and runs away at 13 when her father arranges a marriage for her to a 60 something year old man. Very good story.
The Sleepwalkers - Paul Grossman - A I won this one from Goodreads. It takes place in Germany 1932 before the takeover by Hitler. Chief detective Willi, a Jew is on the case of a murdered woman found in the Haver River. She has had surgery to turn the tibias in her legs backwards. He is using all his resources to find who is doing these atrocities while fighting what is happening in Germany. Pampered to Death - Laura Levine - B+ Lance treats Jane to a spa for a week. When she and Prozac arrive, she realizes it is a weight loss spa! When a movie star is murdered, Jane is on the case. Stage Fright - Clare McNally - B+ (this was my scary book for October) Hayley is a playwright of a theater group. Her boyfriend Jack is in the group and they are going to celebrate a 1 year anniversary of being together. Hayley returns home after running errands to find Jack and her best friend Kelly murdered in their apartment. Bruce Donner is still there but runs and is apprehended by the police. He hangs himself in the jail cell but scrawls a message to Hayley on his chest, "wait for me". 5 years later Hayley moves to New York and starts a little dinner theater group. When the members start disappearing and dying, she's wondering if Bruce has come back. Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln - Janis Cooke Newman - A++ This was historical fiction but based on a lot of facts. Mary is telling her story while in the insane asylum where her oldest son Robert has placed her. I knew nothing about Mary other than people saying she was crazy. I now have a better understanding of her and her life. She had a friend who was a mulatto who traveled with Mary and made dresses. I looked her up to see if she was real and not only was she real, but she wrote her own book about her slavery as well as her days in the White House. I got it for free from Kindle! Anxious to read it. I very much enjoyed reading Mary and would recommend it if you like historical fiction. Paula, CO [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Have you told a friend today? http://bookcrossing.com/tellafriend Archives and email list settings: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
