I loved the Nightingale so much!!! Thank you for the other book ideas as well!

I SOO enjoyed The Invention of Wings!

Just finished my book club book and was pretty blown away. The Girl Who Was Saturday Night is a fantastical story of twins living in the seediest quarter in Montreal. It’s by Jennifer O’Neil and we read her first book years ago, Lullabies for Little Criminals.

I am doing the Popsugar 2017 Reading Challenge so I have read books I have never heard. Books I never would have picked up otherwise. Some really good books. I loved The Guernsey Potato Pie one and can’t get anyone to understand it is a book and they should read it. Lol. Nightingale was by far the best book I have read in a long time. I could not put it down.

Thank you for these! Love your book rec posts! I have recently enjoyed The Husband's Secret and The Light Between Oceans.

I NEVER read books, I think I need to listen to more b/c i want to, but my computer is my only hobby (is that sad?) these days. I need to figure out how to use audible, is it a phone app that you download the book?

*Debbie Macomber 🙂

Two memoirs I like that remind me of The Language of Flowers are The Glass Castle and The Middle Place.
I also liked Digging to America which sounds like it might have a lot of similar themes to How to Be an American House Wife.
Thanks for the new book ideas. I am always looking for a great novel.

I love The Fault In Our Stars! I cannot wait until the movie! I am reading the Trylle Series by Amanda Hocking right now and it is amazing. I am almost done with the last book and I never want it to end. I keep hearing things about Wonder so I think I am going to read that next.

I'm a little concerned about the movie for The Fault in Our Stars. I don't think it is possible to capture the magic of the book. I recently finished Eleanor and Park – Amazon said I should love it – I didn't. It wanted to be a similar teen, smart, love story but it needed to try a little harder. The Secret Keeper is one of my favorites of the year, the ending is genius! I just finished The Secret Garden by Kate Morton, it wasn't quite as good but definitely worth the read. Several months ago I read the book The Chaperone. It isn't exclusively about orphan trains, but that plays a key part for one character. Besides that, I really liked the book – lots of good historical details woven into a great story.

Me before You by JoJo Moyes was fantastic!!

The Rosie Project is a good light hearted read that I really enjoyed!

As a kid I read the Orphan Train West Trilogy by Jane Peart. They might be out of print now, but I thought they were fascinating.

I loved the top two!!! I'll look up both the other ones!!! I'm kind of on a non fiction run right now! I'm reading one about the science of food! It's totally interesting!

Did you catch in the Secret Keeper her mention of the Author of the Secret Garden being at the big house. kind of neat loved that book read quite a few years ago. Have you read Language of Flowers, if not you should you would love it. I also liked Fault in our Stars just finished reading it myself.

Loved the Kitchen House – great book! Im reading Plain Truth from Jodi Piccoult right now.

Another thing we have the same taste in…. I've read 1/2 of these. Shoemaker's Wife and the Divergent series (except I'm still working on Allegiant). I want to read the other 2! And to see the Book Thief. It's hard to find around here. :/
I wish we lived close enough (for about 2002340949 reasons) to have book club in person. xo

The Kitchen House sounds interesting, added that to my list. Loved Divergent and need to make time to read the rest. I am currently reading The Curiosity by Stephen P. Kiernan for book club, I'm not far in but it's intriguing.

These are my favorite posts! I love seeing what everyone's reading! Helps grow my list!!
Reading The Fault in the Stars right now. SO good!
Also read The English Rose, The Tea Rose and The Wild Rose. All good historical romance fiction!
Keep the recommendations coming!

Love, love The Book Thief and hesitant about seeing the movie. The Time Traveller's Wife is one of my all time favourite books and The Remains of the Day is on of the saddest you will ever read. The Kitchen House was awesome if terribly sad. Currently reading The Cuckoo Calling by J K Rowling. Reading is the best thing ever! I can do it all day long 🙂

Greats!

I remember reading The Hiding Place years ago on my subway rides to work in NYC. An amazing true story that at times found me in a subway car with a tear streaming down my cheek. Highly recommend it.

Thanks for the book recommendations!!! I pinned them all to my Books to Someday Read board. I am currently reading My Beloved World, Sonia Sotomayer's memoir and I am liking it very much. I've had A Tree Grows in Brooklyn on my list for a long while. Should probably read that next. Sounds like a good tie in to my current read.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is my favorite fiction book and The Hiding Place is one of my favorite non-fiction books. So powerful! So glad you are reading them both. Enjoy!

ATree Grows in Brooklyn is my FAVorite book….I think I read it for the first time in 5th grade..and I reread it every year..love the Nolan family…my family was a poor immigrant family, scraping by, filled with strong woman and not so strong men…maybe that's why I have loved and relaed to it all these years…

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is wonderful read and a great window into the time period. The author addresses quite a few contemporary issues considering when the book was written.

I've been needing some new books to add to my kindle. Thanks for the suggestions, they sound great!

I love it when there's a just off the bookshelf post!! you will love the kitchen house! so sad, eye opening and good! just finished the hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet and I have read the hiding place but I will be adding the others to my reading list for sure, you have good taste in books! 🙂

a tree grows in brooklyn-love, love, love-thanks for the reminder-have to give it to my daughter

I read The Kitchen House last year. I loved it! But I'm a history nut, specifically early American history, so it was right up my alley! I, of course, also loved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Both books made me glad America is not where it used to be.

Read the Kitchen House last summer. It was a good read. A couple other great reads: The Warmth of Other Suns, Honolulu (by Alan Brennert), All Different Kinds of Free and Cutting for Stone (you may have already reviewed this one?).

You'll love The Kitchen House – definitely one of my favorite reads to date. And I also love Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet too. The Warmth of Other Suns is another favorite…I'm off to check out the other books on your list!

This list seems right up my alley and I am so excited for some new novels in my life I can see you devour books like I do so I thought I would recommend a fantastic love story that I just read (and perhaps you can add it to your next list!).

The book is called Shanghai Love, by author Layne Wong (http://laynewong.com/). It is an unlikely love story between a Chinese herbalist and a Jewish refugee looking for safety from Nazi Germany. The herbalist, Peilin, was betrothed to a man who was killed before their wedding but tradition and honor forced the marriage along anyways. She is sent to Shanghai to manage his family’s herbal shop. Shanghai is also Henri’s destination as he has graduated from medical school as Hitler is rising to power. He flees to Shanghai where he’s befriended by Ping, Peilin’s brother. Through her kindness, Henri becomes fascinated with Chinese herbs as well as the exotic culture surrounding him and he falls in love with Peilin (of course!). New surprises emerge throughout the story – it’s an enthralling page-turner! I hope you will give it a read!

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet was a good book about the Chinese- and Japanese-Americans during WW II. It's fiction but still gives you an idea of how people were treated then.

I have several to recommend:

Dinner: A Love Story (a cookbook that I read cover to cover!)

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen

Ditto on Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet! Great sentimental book!

Love your rating system. 🙂
I'm not typically a huge sci-fi fan, but I picked up Stephen King's 11/22/63 and was drawn in so much that I hated to get to the end. Great summer read!

I finally read Eat, Pray, Love. I enjoyed it. I am now reading the Hunger Games and I have the Lovely Bones waiting for me after that. Thanks for the recommendations!

I devoured the Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld this summer and have already lent the books out to be read by my friends. It is such a good read

i love it when you do these posts!! your scientific grading system is just the bee's knees. you totally speak my book language. i wanna read that taj mahal book asap. did i just spell that wrong? i don't feel like scrolling back up there to check. 🙂

thanks for the recommendations.

xo,
alicia

Great titles to pint on my Books on my Reading List page….. thanks for the ideas.
I just finished BLoom by Kelle Hampton, loved it.

I loved both of those Lisa See books as well! I always appreciate a good recommendation. Have you read Snowflower and the Secret Fan? I am at new blog follower so you may have listed these already but some of my favorites are: Girl in Translation, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, The Red Tent, and The Lost Wife. A lot, I know, I love a good book though! Thanks for the titles!

I'm so glad you loved the marble sky book!!! so good hu! The Red Tent that Melissa D. mentioned is super amazing too! I'm finally reading 1000white women and am enjoying it 😉

I am reading 50 Shades of Grey right now. Oh my!

I also have Bloom on my reading list and I would love to read Heaven is Here and the Happiness Project.

I always love to hear your book recommendations.

I felt the same about Shanghai Girls. I didn't realize there was a sequel. Thanks for the tip! It seems like most of the books I have read lately have been meh.

K. I'm putting these on my list of books to read because I trust you with my very LIFE, so why not a book recommendation, right? I read Ok For Now by Gary Schmidt and fell in love. Don't be put off by the weird cover or the age group it was supposedly written for. You'll love it.

I'm in the middle of Heaven is Here and loving it. I am quite impressed with the greate imagery and descriptive words used. I wish I could say I am well read, but I often go to my bookclub and learn about the book then, just to chat with my friends and have treats. I read blogs….speaking of…I subscribed to your email list so I will be coming regularly now b/c my email tells me when you post!

Thanks for the suggestions! I read the "Wings" series, you should try that one. Once I got a few chapters into it, I didn't want to put it down.

Same Kind of Different as Me and Peony in Love were my top two from last year. I love to read but never seem to have enough time to do it anymore! – Karen

I read a Kristen Hannah book for the first time last year and LOVED IT! And then I started reading everyone I could get my hands on…have yet to read one I didn't like, although Comfort and Joy was a little too unrealistic for me.

I read a lot of Kristin Hannahs books – she's great. I read Room also. Looks like we have the same taste in books so I am going to checkout a few of your suggestions.

I also loved The Book Thief. My favorites from last year were probably These is My Words, Unbroken(amazing true story!),and The Hunger Games. My sixth grader recommended The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,which was also very good(but sad).

Thank you for the suggestions; I am definitely interested in reading Moloka'i.

Alan Brennert also wrote Honolulu, which I highly recommend. The Book Thief is an all time favorite & I just finished The Hunger Games trilogy…they were great!

I just read a thought-provoking book by the author of The Book Thief. It's called I Am the Messenger. For fans of Marcus Zusak, I recommend it!

I LOVED "Room" by Emma Donaghue!

My top books for 2011 were:
1. "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
2. "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford
3. "The Language of Flowers" by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
4. "Friendship Bread" by Darien Gee
5. "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein

Love the book post! Check out a new blog called
The Best Endings… lots of contributors and lots of books!

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I love the book thief, it's such a great book.
My 3 favorites I've read last year;
1. The time traverler's wife
2. Columbine
3. One Day

I read Room over the summer and LOVED it, can't wait to check out your other book suggestions. I just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series.

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Loved ROOM and also, I am not a HUGE fan of Kristin Hannah, but really liked Winter Garden…I also loved the Girl W/ the Dragon Tattoo series, an autobiography of Johnny Cash that I got for Christmas! My daughter made me read all the Eragon books (the last of which just came out) and I loved them!
Can't wait to read the one about the girl who had leprosy…

Loved all of your top 3 so i think I'll try these — by the way, Sarah's Key as a movie is FANTASTIC!!!! You have to rent it.

What a timely post, I was just going through my book groups reading from last year and picking out my favorites! Cutting for Stone, The Help and Major Pettigrew's Last Stand were at the top. And now we are reading The Book Thief. And I so agree about Moloka'i…loved it.

Wow, we must be connected on some cosmic scale, those are some of my favorite books of all time too. I hope I get a chance to site down and read these is my words again! Maybe when I am 60.

I think I am the only person on the planet who did not like Room. I was so depressed afterwards. Last year I read and loved the ever so trendy "The Help;" it was just delicious! And, being pregnant and in an emotional wreck state, I tapped back into abother trendy classic, The Purpose Driven Life (ya' know, just to make sure I am "ok" and should be having a third child.) Other than that I just finished reading three books for Elle Magazine:

By the Iowa Sea (Joe Blair)
Some Assembly Required (Anne and Sam Lamott)
Making Babies (Ann Enright)

I share a breif blip on my blog, but suffice it to say, read them and Enjoy Yourself! Each is briliant!

(and…Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons and The Bok Theif are awesome!

I enjoy reading a good book, and am always looking for advice on what to read next. Two books I read recently that I enjoyed were: "Dreams of Joy" by Lisa See – A book set in communist China, and "Fringology" by Steve Volk – A fun read about ghosts, near death experiences, UFOs, and the power of meditation and prayer.

I just love new book ideas, and you're right, January is the best month for reading! Cold + quiet + book = bliss!

Just started reading Kristen Hannah and now I get to meet her next week at a book signing. Can't wait.

I didn't know about Dreams of Joy! I'll have to look that up. Snow Flower is still one of my all time fave books (want to see the movie badly!)

I just read Pope Joan. I loved it! Great historical fiction about a controversial time in Rome's history.

Also read The Hangman's Daughter. Not up there with some of my faves, but still interesting. Also some historical fiction elements.

I'm always looking for a new book to read! Thanks for sharing. I just started Comfort Food. It's good so far!

I, too, am currently in the midst of "The Book Thief."

My favorite read this summer has been "Remembering Isaac." It is just a good book. Someone recommended it to me and as soon as I finished I hurried to get the sequels (its a trilogy). It isn't full of action and adventure, but your soul is fed with wisdom of the ages. You'll wish that you could live with the characters before you're even half way through the first book. 🙂

Thank you for the book list! I just read Shanghai Girls and loved it. I am glad to hear that there is a sequel. I thought that there might be by the ending! I look forward to your next list!!

Book Thief is on my list to read!! I just finished TallGrass and it was pretty good.

I am almost finished with These Is My words. I love it!

Thanks…am always on the lookout for a good book. I just ordered samples on my Kindle for these.

Thank you for the reviews! I always appreciate good recommendations!!!

The first two you reviewed are in my "stack" right now…so I can't wait to read them since you said they are so good.
I love, love, love Lisa See too. Go read Dreams of Joy. It is a fantastic finish to Shanghai Girls!

I loved those who save us… I just red the book Room. I think this may be a 5 star book. it was amazing

I adored The Book Thief. It took me a couple of months to not keep going back to re-read sections of it while in the midst of other books!

I recently finished The Kitchen House. Pretty good historical fiction. I'm currently reading Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. It's a fun and quirky British character. My book club is reading The Lost Girls. I have yet to receive my copy from Amazon, but have high hopes!

Happy reading!

Must read "Sarah's Key" , "Secret Daughter" , & "Pictures of You". Now that Ii have an I Pad, I read all the time!! 14 books since Christmas!!!

try cold sassy tree- even better listen to it on CD. Also a great book: The Thirteenth Tale

If you like reading about the Holocaust then Sarah's Key is good. It is about the round-up of Jews in Paris. I enjoyed it because the story is told through two different eyes. Also, there is a movie version of it coming out in the near future.

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The Glass Castle is amazing! I have just started Room and will put The Book Thief on my list.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Book Thief!!

I also loved Those Who Save Us and Shanghai Girls (haven't started Dreams of Joy yet) and was a big Snow Flower fan (the movie released here in Hawaii last week, although it looks quite different from the book so I'm not sure about it). I just finished Cutting for Stone and it was FANTASTIC – highly recommend it. I'd also recommend Moloka'i by Alan Brennert, which is one of my all-time faves and one not many people have read (I'm live in Hawaii so it hits close to home for me).

Ihave read most of The Book Theif have Shanghai girls in my to read basket/list 🙂

I love your reviews! Between your suggestions and the suggestions in the comments, I have a whole new list of books "pinned" to my reading list!

Another book about the Holocaust that I thought was wonderful was The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. It will haunt me forever, though. It is a YA book. There is also a movie. Of course, the book is better.

Book thief and Unbroken are next on my list!! Right now I'm reading the Help and it is soooo good!

I loved the message at the end of Unbroken. It was like sweet honey.

The Book Thief is incredibly moving. One of my favorite books of all time. I'm putting Unbroken on hold at the library today, thanks for the recommendation!! I just got Sarah's Key yesterday after having had it on hold forever, and am prepared to cry, as per your warning!

I love your book reviews. Through the years, I have read all the books on your list. I read The Book Thief a couple of years ago and it is one of my favorites. I have picked up a couple of your suggestions, so please keep giving us ideas. I am always looking for a good book. Trying Those Who Save Us next. Thanks!

I LOVED Unbroken! I totally understand what you mean about being bogged down with too much info at times, but the last half of the book is simply AMAZING! It will haunt me forever. Such an amazing man! Every time I start to think my life with quadruplets plus a singleton is hard, I instantly think of Louie & realize how very blessed a life I lead.

Book Thief is a piece of literary art. It is absolutely beautiful. One of the best I've ever read. I have not read Shanghi Girls, but I read two other Lisa See books and I loved them.

You should get on goodreads.

Oh the book theif was sooo good! Thanks for posting this, I love to see whats new in book world!

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Shanghai Girls is an excellent book. I'm on a WWII book kick lately, and it was a great addition to it, and wasn't the regular European view that I had been reading. It was great, you'll enjoy it!

I can't wait to hear what you think of Those Who Saved Us. It is currently sitting on my desk, but other books keep taking priority.

I actually just finished Unbroken on Sunday and I think I would have to give it 5 stars. I loved the way the author gave the information in the book. She could put so much information in such an interesting and "uncluttered" way (I thought). I think the book would have been lacking without the background and you don't want to make the book too long. It was an amazing book!! Makes you so appreciate the sacrifices of all our soldiers, yesterday and today! THanks for the review!

Loved The Book Thief!

Unbroken and The Book Thief were both 5 star books for me. Loved them both. Currently my book clubs are reading Pope Joan and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Both excellent. I also liked Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Cutting for Stone. Thanks for the recommendations, I have them both on my goodreads list. Hope to get to them this summer!

LOVED LOVED LOVED Book Theif. Its kind of slow, but I was constantly wondering what would happen next. LOVE the perspective its written in and everything. Hope you enjoy it too!

Thanks for the review, you have inspired me to buy this book now. (Unbroken)

Book Thief and Those Who Save Us are both fantastic reads! I just finished The Art of Racing in the Rain and it was also great!

I love that you comment on what you have read recently. VERY cool…I enjoyed Shanghi girls, I just read in the Costco connection that there is a continuation of the story just out this month…this week I think. I am looking forward to reading this one.

I read half of the book theirf, realy liked it, but my library wanted it back. Shanghai girls is in my to-read basket!!

I love these reviews:). I loved doing a book post on my blog as well before because there was a great response! I'll have to check out Unbroken! The Book Thief is one of my favorite books. Loved it. I just finished The Chosen and really loved that as well!

The Book Theif is incredible. It is one of those books that I don't think I would have found on my own, but my book club read it and I was so glad I did. The point of view is unusal and WWII books all seem to be about Jews, Nazis or soldiers — this one is just about poor Germans, who are none of the above and just happen to be in the way — very interesting storyline. It is long, but stick with it — you will be glad you did.

I've been waiting to hear your review on One Thousand White Women. I wanted so much to love it…and just couldn't. I felt about the same as you.

The Book Thief is on my top 10 of all time. LOVED it!

the book thief is an amazing book. it started off a little slow for me, but picked up quickly. i absolutely loved it.

I read those who save us in 24 hrs. I finished it last night. Fantastic, thought provoking, positive read. Definately a 5 star to me.

I didn't like shanghai girls, it was a good read, but not alot of hope in the book, but well written.

I read a little bit of a 1000 white women and didn't finish it.

I came to your blog for crafts, but the book review is my favorite.

lisa

The Book Thief – 5 stars.

You are so right about Sarah's Key. I think you and I have the same reading list. I am currently reading Atlas Shrugged but both of the other books are in my TBR pile. 🙂

I, too, read Sarah's Key. It was heartwrenching, but I couldn't put it down.

Thank you for the Sarah Prine recommendations! I got all three books from my library to loan to my mother, a 95-year-old voracious reader, and she LOVED them!

I always enjoy checking out your "Just Off the Bookshelf" posts and take your recommendations very seriously 🙂 I just finished reading "The Shadow of the Wind" and it is another really good read that I recommend to anybody who loves book… I won't say anymore 😉
I had forgotten about it because I read it long ago but I LOVED 1000 White Women!!!

Oh no! I *hated* "One Thousand White Women" with a passion, as did everyone else in my book club. Not that I expect you to change your mind about reading it based on that. If anything, when people say that sort of thing to me I only get more curious to read it for myself and see what I think. Let us know what you think of it when you're done.

Woohoo! Ideas for my summer reading list! Thanks!

Love your rating system. Quite spot on. (Except since most of my books come from the library, I can't turn around and donate them to a thrift store!)

I love your taste in reading! I also have "One Thousand White Women" on my reading list. I just finished "Same Kind of Different As Me". It is a must read! I loved it! It moved up to one of my most favorite books. Love your blog. Keep up the good work!

Of those, I've only read Sarah's Key…it broke my heart! But gave me much perspective on the suffering of war.
I haven't read the others but thanks for the reviews!

I've read These is My Words, but I heard that the 2nd one was just really depressing. I'm going to read it, but I've been putting it off. I put Sarah's Key on my To Read list. I don't think I've heard of it. I'm in such a reading slump right now. I just can't find the time. I'm supposed to be reading Devil in the White City for book club, but I'm only a few pages in.

I agree, The Help, is awesome! Also, try reading Second Kiss by Natalie Palmer. It's really good and clean~ imagine that! 🙂

Thank you for all the great suggestions! I just went and put them all on hold at the Library! Can't wait to get my hands on them!

Oh I love recommendations too! Thanks for sharing yours. 🙂

Just finished Unbroken and it was really good. The other one I wish I could have that week back. blah!!

I am also a huge fan of "Sarah's Key." Just returned from Paris last Friday and went near the spot where they held those poor people. There is a plague in the Eiffel Tower Metro Station to remember the event and the victims. The book is such a page-turner that I couldn't hardly put it down! Next on my list: "These is My Words…."

We just read The Devil in the White City for bookclub–we actually just had our meeting last night! I thought it was the best book we've read in the past year. It's all about the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and America's first serial killer, who lived right down the street from the fair! It is nonfiction, but the author made it a real page-turner. I seriously couldn't put it down! Almost every page made me say, "How did I not know this already?!"

I just finished Unbroken, and loved it. Hard to read sometimes and I would put it down, but minutes later, I would pick it up and read some more. Unbelievable. I would love to meet Louis.

Wow! Now I really want to read these too!

Sarah's Key is so sad! But a great look at history that's been overlooked.

One Thousand White Women is another great, western book in a journal like format like These Is My Words. I really enjoyed it.

I'm also reading the third book in the Princess trilogy. The first book is called Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia. There are two books after that. Great reads!

i've never read either of these, but they both look great! i LOVED sarah's key, but get ready for a heart wrencher!!

I just added all these books to my "Need to Read" list! They all sound so good. Thanks!

Loved These is My Words. Will have to read Sarah's quilt soon.

i enjoyed These is My Words. I haven't read the sequel yet. I really liked Sarah's Key. I just bought a couple b/c I had to give back the one I borrowed. Right now I'm reading Cutting for Stone and it's really good so far.

I am a fellow Sarah Agnes Prine lover. It's not very often that I even hear these books mentioned, so I was so excited to see your post! I recommend These is My Words whenever someone asks what she should read. 🙂

I enjoyed Sarah's Key as well, though it was so heartbreaking.

these is my words is a great book and thanks for telling me about the sequel! can't wait to read it!

i loved sarah's key. as stated above, it's VERY sad. i had wet red eyes the entire read. (but it was excellent! i hope you like it.)

Love both of these books so good! Read them a few years ago! So good!

I haven't yet heard of them…but will have to check them out! You made them sound very good!!

I have read all 3 of this series and loved stepping into her life. It's so refreshing to read of a woman of courage, integrity and real character. It helps you appreciate your blessings too! I just finished reading, Half the Sky. It won the Pulitzer. It's the kind of book that will change your life. But it's probably not one to read at the BB game either 😉

The Star Garden is the best of the 3 books. Loved them all.
Sarah's Key is OK. kinda sad. Don't read at BB.

Everyone I know has read "These Is My Words"….and they all loved it! I keep forgetting to pick that one up. Thanks for reminding me.

A word of advice…add to your list the book "Matched" by Ally Condie.

I also enjoyed them and passed them on to my mom and grandma. Who doesn't love a western? 🙂
I agree on the recommendation of One Thousand White Women too.

Thanks for all the recommendations. I just finished "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand. It was amazing and I wish every American could read it. It gave me an appreciation for our freedom unlike anything else. Highly encouraged. Also loved "Chasing Fireflies" by Charles Martin.

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I bought the book this past weekend. It is GREAT! Thanks for the recommendation. The first night I started reading I was up until 2 in the morning! Made the next morning a little difficult but i just couldn't seem to fidn a good stopping place.
A lot of my friends have read Sarah's Key and I just don't think I can do it. My mom said it was really, really sad. I don't mind crying so much as long as I get to laugh a little too.

I put up book reviews on my blog too (I don't have your fancy schmancy rating system though :)).
http://www.marthahasminions.blogspot.com

Rob&Michelle – I just finished Sarah's Key and felt the same about the modern-day characters.