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Dairy Queen -and- The Off Season, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

I am so surprised at how much I loved these books!  Why?  First of all, they didn’t strike me as books with Big Thinking involved, and I thought they’d be a little TOO...

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards

I have made it a goal with most of my reviews to keep from rehashing the plot of the books I read.  It’s easy enough to get a summary from a hundred different sources online –...

Book Review: The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo

I am such a sucker for book design.  I’ve always wanted to read Kate DiCamillo’s The Tale of Despereaux, simply because of how it’s packaged – the title font, the...

Book Review: Into the Wild, by Sarah Beth Durst

One nice thing about having a small, underused library system where we now live:  popular books are either right on the shelves, or have a very short wait time.  I have seen this book...

Book Review: The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy, by Jeanne Birdsall

Parts of The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy reminded me of Little Women – the movie version, with Winona Ryder (I am embarrassed...

Something Rising (Light and Swift), by Haven Kimmel

Ok, well, I liked this book.  Can you just picture my knit brow and pursed lips as I write that summation, my hesitation oozing forth?  It’s just that I really wanted to LOVE this...

Book Review: A Drowned Maiden’s Hair, by Laura Amy Schlitz

I love, love, love this book.  In A Drowned Maiden’s Hair by Laura Amy Schlitz, the writing is fantastic, the pace is pitch-perfect, the characters are complex, the storyline is...