The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer and Barrows

This is a wonderful book. Everyone should belong to a group like this... having people to support you through hard times, diverse ideas that challenge each other... just read it.

*****adult

Catchin Fire by Suzanne Collins

While I enjoyed this book I must say I was disapointed. It was too much a repeat of the first and didn't go to any of the posibilites I had imagined. Maybe the third will be what I was waiting for.

caution: violence and mild sexuality

*** middle school and up

Night by Elie Wiesel

This book is nonfiction, but the things that happen are so horrible and described so matter-or-factly, it seems to be fictions. This is a book that puts your life into perspective. We are all so lucky.

**** teen and adult

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

A book I have been meaning to read for years and can't believe that I never got to it. This is a book I could read every 5 years, there are so many things to think about. How if someone is above or below the medicore they do not fit in. How difficult it is to be ture to yourself, but the only truely happy people are those who manage to do so.

***** adult

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

A book that explore the research on how we make decisions in the blink of an eye. It explores the idea that body language can give us all the information we need to make correct decisions in a matter of seconds, it is just a matter of learning to read the signals.


*** adult

Barcode Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn

This book is such an interesting idea. The author tried to create a futuristic slang that seemed forced.

Caution: violence

*** teen

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Such a sad book. Many questions raised about dysfunctional families and medical ethics. It kept me reading. The ending just wasn't what I wanted.

caution: swearing, violence, sexuality

**** adult