Here is the list of books I have read the past months
easy reading
Nerd gone wild

apparently a whole series of "nerd"books by Vicki Lewis Thompson this one takes place in the Alaska Frontier

Inheriting a fortune means less to Ally Jarrett than fulfilling her real dream: to take off for the wilds of Alaska and photograph animals. Unfortunately, she's also inherited her grandmother's personal assistant--an overprotective nerd who couldn't survive a snowball fight.
As a PI and bodyguard, Mitchell Caruthers is the perfect man to protect his late employer's granddaughter. However, keeping his geek-masquerade--and the secret behind his real mission--isn't easy when the freeze between Ally and Mitchell begins to melt.
Yet all's not well in this sub-zero paradise. Ally's bad seed uncle is staking a claim on the family inheritance with a dangerous masquerade of his own. With Ally's life in danger, it's time for her right-hand nerd to expose the real man undercover, and prove himself to the vulnerable body he's been hired to guard.

from http://www.vickilewisthompson.com/nerd3.html

The Pilot's Wife
by Anita Shreve

I did not realize it was an oprah book selection until after I bought it. This book although similiar to several other stories regarding double lives was set apart in that it really dwells on how well do we know any person? I ask myself that often I think i know him but what if?... they have a different side that I have not seen.The pilots wife also struck me as asking the questions (which I have often asked myself) Is our own happiness worth more than anyone else. If being together makes him happy but leaves me wanting... is it my right to seek my happiness at the cost of his. It was a good read somewhat predictable but still with enough of its own twists to stay interesting. It also was made into a movie(havent seen it) starring Christine Lahti in 2002

Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard - Book Review

2 new books

Cage of Stars

and Notting Hell

Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard - Book Review

this book is disturbing ! its disturbing in A Lovely Bones way.It makes you uncomfortable,you know things happen but you still would like to stay protected in your shell. Here the main character lives thru a tragedy of huge proportions and struggles with it her whole life. She can not forget so how can she forgive? This book really resounds the truthfulness of how one minute can change your life and by domino effect so many others . In the blink of an eye all that you have known can be gone and life will never ever be the same. It was a good book hard to read but hard to put down. The darkness eventually gives way to some sun and the knowledge that life does go on, has to go on, and that we must keep going forward or we will be stuck .

Firefly Lane

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From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship… In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer’s end they’ve become TullyandKate. Inseparable. So begins Kristin Hannah’s magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives.

http://www.kristinhannah.com/content/index.asp

Loved this book,It was passed on from one sister to another and then to me.First book to make me cry in a long long time.. more..

The Waiting Child By Cindy Champnella

The Waiting Child.... I am not sure exactly when I first read this book before I rec'd my referral of my daughter. It is a true look into life in an orphanage thru the eyes of a girl abandoned at the age of two. This book is a straight thur read. I read and could not put it down,even though I knew there was a happy ending. It is a tough to handle story especially when you have a child still waiting in a Chinese orphanage.Although I was amazed at how naive about life the mom could be I know many people who are shelter from "real"life in their everyday lives.Its a good book , a great story, and a testimony to the endurung spirit of a little girl lost.

The start

I would like to start keeping a journal of my reading, both the fluff and the write stuff. Reading has been an escape from life since I was a lil bit and had my first library card when I was 3.I read on my breaks at work and usually clear a book and a half a week. I will be joining a Japanese reading challenge