Beth Ann's 2009 Reading Challenge: A Year of Fog

Monday, April 27, 2009

A Year of Fog

Read in April

397 pages

Abby Mason, photographer, turns away from 6 year old Emma for just a moment, that's all it took to lose her fiance's little girl. With determination and heartache Abby searches her memory and San Fransico in search for Emma.

This book was very sad and bittersweet. I really did enjoy this book, the chapters are short so it was easy to find a stopping point without forgetting anything so I could take care of other things. There were a few chapters or parts of chapters that I thought were a bit dry and unneccessary. Abby's search for Emma takes her to Costa Rica, which really made me want to become and expat, learn to surf, and just live on the beach. This is a must read.

Links I like for this book:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Year-of-Fog/Michelle-Richmond/e/9780553591392/?itm=1

http://michellerichmond.com/

www.bantamdell.com

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ShannonMay 8, 2009 at 7:41 AM
I recently finished "Remember Me" by Sophie Kinsella. A+++ book!! You have to read it!

Now I'm caught up in "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult. It's being made into a movie this summer and I'm the type of person that HAS to read the book first. If you choose to read this, have a Kleenex handy!!
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Beth AnnMay 8, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Yes, My Sister's Keep was the first Picoult book I read, it actually made me cry. I have been following the making of the movie, not sure if I like how it was cast and they are leaving some characters out so I can already tell it's not going to be half as good as the book, but I'll still go see it. I am also the type of person that HAS to read the book before seeing the movie. One good movie was In Her Shoes. Jennifer Weiner wrote the book, it's one of my favorites. I actually saw the movie first, loved it, then grabbed the book, which has a lot more than the movie, it was FANTASTIC! Thanks for the comments Shannon, keep those recommendations coming!
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I am currently reading trying to figure out what I am going to read next. We are going on a vacation so I'm sure I'll have something by the time we leave tomorrow. I can't just sit in the car for the next 12 hours without anything to read!

Just a few books my To Be Read List:
March by Geraldine Brooks
~From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brooks's place as a renowned author of historical fiction.

Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
~Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she soon found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her profession became known she was eagerly sought out by Westerners desperate for a good haircut and by Afghan women, who have a long and proud tradition of running their own beauty salons. Thus an idea was born.

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
~Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands.

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
~Barcelona, 1945-A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind, by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Carax's other books, it begins to dawn on him, to his horror, that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book the man has ever written. Soon the boy realizes that The Shadow of the Wind is as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget, for the mystery of its author's identity holds the key to an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love that someone will go to any lengths to keep secret.

A Thousan Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
~A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years — from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding — that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives — the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness — are inextricable from the history playing out around them.

Beth Ann's 2009 Reading Challenge

Monday, April 27, 2009

A Year of Fog

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