books I've read

Anne Hawn's books

Who Moved My Cheese?
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
Scientific Secrets for Self-Control
Just One Damned Thing After Another
The Vanishing
Exercises in Knitting
The Good Dream
The Very Best of Edgar Allan Poe
The Chosen
BT-Kids' Knits
Talking God
The Professor
The Christmas Files
The Finisher
Home Decor for 18-Inch Dolls: Create 10 Room Settings with Furniture and 15 Outfits with Accessories
Dracula and Other Stories
A New Song
Christy
All Quiet on the Western Front
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents


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I'm reading 150 Books

2019 Reading Challenge
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Books we've read

The Help
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Night Circus
The Golden Compass
11/22/63
The Little Lady Agency
Catch-22
The Good Father
A Discovery of Witches
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Fahrenheit 451
Frankenstein
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
A Christmas Carol
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Color Purple
Matched
Cloud Atlas
The Princess Bride
The Catcher in the Rye


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Monday, February 16, 2009

White Fang

White Fang White Fang by Jack London


My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A great adventure story for all ages. The action takes place in the frozen Yukon and tells the story from the dog who is the only one left from her family. He has to find his way in a frozen environment which is filled with danger everywhere. The relationship between dogs and man and dogs and the environment is the essence of Jack London. No one does it better. The reader wants to grab a blanket or afghan while reading of the long trek in the subzero wilds of Alaska.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Dracula

Dracula (Critical Edition) Dracula by Bram Stoker


My rating: 5 of 5 stars
As a librarian, I introduced this book in our book club and a number of people read it. The consensus was that it was the scariest book they had ever read. Note that was "scariest" as opposed to "gross." To many horror novels today are overly concerned with gore and not with plot development. I think this is a classic because the suspense builds and builds while there is a pervading sense that the protagonists may not be able to survive. They have already lost one of their number and she was not a "disposable" character that the readers hadn't invested much in.

I homeschool my 7th grade grandson and had him read this book for Literature. We both enjoyed it and I was surprised at how much he learned from it. We studied the Gothic novel, Eastern European geography, living standards in Victorian times and a great vocabulary.

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Sunday, February 08, 2009

Cherry Cheesecake Murder (A Hannah Swensen Mystery, #8)`

Cherry Cheesecake Murder (A Hannah Swensen Mystery, #8) Cherry Cheesecake Murder by Joanne Fluke


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Like all of this series, this book is a good light weight murder mystery. It has the perquisite obnoxious murder victim, friend/suspect and several good recipes. I enjoy these however predictable. Hannah is an engaging sleuth and the various relationships between characters is good.

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