It just so happens that the book I read on Sunday and was planning to write about today, fits in nicely with yesterday’s post. I swear, I didn’t plan that. But I love when things like that happen by accident. Between You and Me is the latest book from Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus…authors of The Nanny Diaries, among…
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Emily’s life didn’t quite turn out the way she expected. She and her husband are both busy lawyers working in the kind of jobs they’d always dreaded. They are always exhausted and they have no time to spend together. One day, in the middle of a phone call with a client, Emily feels suffocated and…
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Lamb is the story of Jesus’s life told from the persepective of his best friend Levi who is called Biff. It fills in all the gaps in Jesus’s life from his birth until the Gospels when he was 30. That’s a lot of years and Christopher Moore fills them in with great adventures…that in the…
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Jacob Hunt is a teenager with Asperger’s syndrome. Although he’s brilliant in many ways, he’s hopeless at reading social cues and has a lot of trouble expressing himself well to others. He has a great love for one subject – forensic analysis. He keeps a police scanner in his room to alert him to crime…
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AJ Jacobs was raised in a secular family, but after the birth of his son, became increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world. So he decided to dive in and attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vowed to follow the Ten Commandments…to be fruitful and multiply…to…
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A LADY DOES NOT SMOKE CHEROOT. SHE DOES NOT RIDE ASTRIDE. SHE DOES NOT FENCE OR ATTEND DUELS. SHE DOES NOT FIRE A PISTOL, AND SHE NEVER GAMBLES AT A GENTLEMEN’S CLUB. Lady Calpurnia Hartwell has always followed the rules and that plan has left her unmarried and very unsatisfied. So now…she’s vowed to break the…
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In 1988 Dexter Mayhew met Emma Morley. After one day together, they couldn’t stop thinking about one another. Over the next twenty years, snapshots of their relationship are revealed on July 15th of each year. Dex and Em experience fights, hopes, missed opportunities, laughter and tears. As the true meaning of this one day is revealed, Dex and…
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Always Something There To Remind Me…Beth Harbison Can you ever really know if love is true? And if it is, should you stop at anything to get it? Twenty years ago, Erin Edwards was sure she’d already found the love of her life. Nate Lawson was her first love…the person with whom she shared all her…
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