The Weight of Silence, by Heather Gudenkauf.
When Antonia laughed, those around here did too, except for Calli. Calli hadn't laughed for a long time. She smiled her sweet, close-lipped grin, but an actual giggle, which once was emitted freely and sounded of chimes, never came, though she knew her mother waited expectantly.
This novel was excellent,...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Fixing Delilah
Fixing Delilah, by Sarah Ockler.
The maples near the porch shake their rustling green heads in the breeze, but Mom and Aunt Rachel don't notice. They just stare at each other, standing here in the middle of things with their arms dangling and the screen door half-open, the same blood flowing through their veins and a thousand pounds of unspoken words...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Delirium
Delirium, by Lauren Oliver.
I comfort myself by thinking that in less than two months this will seem like nothing to me. All of it will fall away and I'll rise up new and free, like a bird winging up into air.
That's what Hana doesn't understand, has never understood. For some of us it's about more than the deliria. Some of us, the lucky ones, will...
Saturday, September 10, 2011
I Don't Know How She Does It
I Don't Know How She Does It, by Allison Pearson.
Monday, 1:37 A.M. How did I get here? Can someone please tell me that? Not in this kitchen, I mean in this life. It is the morning of the school carol concert and I am hitting mince pies. No, let us be quite clear about this, I am distressing mince pies, an altogether more demanding and subtle process.
Discarding...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happiness
Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happiness, by Dominique Browning.
At the start of this journey, all I could think about was loss: lost work, my children who had left home; my house slipping from my grasp; my parents slipping into their last years. Lost love, on top of it all, because I was finally forced to confront the...
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Sisterhood Everlasting
Sisterhood Everlasting, by Ann Brashares.
Once upon a time there were four pregnant women who met in an aerobics gym. I'm not joking; that's how this story begins. These large, fit, sweatband-sporting women bore four daughters, all born in and around the month of September. These girls started out as babies together and grew to be girls and then women....
