Category: Fiction

The Year of Pleasures

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Post date December 24, 2006
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by Elizabeth Berg, 2005 What a quick read! Bette Nolan loses her husband, John, to cancer. Leaves Boston, drives to Midwest, picks a town, a house, starts a new life. Opens a store, ‘What A Woman Wants,’ renews friendship with 3 old college roommates. Doesn’t open store until the very end. Great book! Loved all […]

A New Song

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Post date November 7, 2006
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by Jan Karon, 1999 Cynthia and Father Kavanaugh go to island church on White Cap. Frenchwoman, Helene Pringle, rents the rectory in Mitford – steals the angel. Is an heir of the Baxter’s. Morris Love, organist with Turrette’s Syndrome and deformities – starts out as enemy, becomes friend, comes to Jesus.

My Sister’s Keeper

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Post date August 21, 2006
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by Jodi Picoult, 2003 Interesting: One sister, Kate, has leukemia, and Anna is born to be her donor. Anna decides to go to a lawyer to sue for the rights to her own body when they want her kidney. Loved the lawyer, Campbell Alexander, and his dog, Judge, a seizure dog.

Giants of the Frost

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Post date July 28, 2006
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by Kim Wilkins, 2004 Neat – Vidor & Victoria – Aud, Odin, Liko, Bifrost, Midgard. Fantasy – fairy tale. Norway. LOVED THIS BOOK!

Three Short Novels

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Post date July 11, 2006
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by Wendell Berry, 2002 Wonderful writer (Wayne’s Uncle Bob’s favorite writer and became Wayne’s favorite writer). 1. Nathan Coulter; 2. Remembering (Andy Catlett loses his arm); 3. A World Lost (Uncle Andrew’s murder)

Years

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Post date May 27, 2006
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by LaVyrle Spencer, 1986 Long novel about 1917-1919 young girl named Linnea, goes to small wheat farming community to be the school teacher. Falls in love with Theodore – 35 years old.

Because of Winn-Dixie

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Post date May 21, 2006
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by Kate DiCamillo, 2000 Awesome children’s book! Ten year-old girl, finds a dog, names it Winn-Dixie.

Vanishing Acts

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Post date March 20, 2006
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by Jodi Piccoult, 2005 Really good – Dad kidnaps daughter for her own good, gets caught 28 years later. Two loves – Eric and Fitz for Delia.

The Weight of Water

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Post date February 8, 2006
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by Anita Shreve, 1997 Really good – island off East coast – Smuttynose – two Norwegian women murdered but one survived.

Out to Canaan

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Post date December 27, 2005
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by Jan Karon, 1997 A “gentle read” as described by the Fort Collins Public Library, this is the 4th book of the Mitford series. Father Tim is married to Cynthia, a beautiful artist, and their lives are blessed by each other and the love they have for the town and people of Mitford. These books […]

Congo

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Post date December 26, 2005
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by Michael Crichton, 1980

Simon’s Family

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Post date October 2, 2005
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by Marianne Fredriksson, 1999

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini, 2003 Afghanistan–moving tale about two boys in Afghanistan at the time of the Russian invasion and then under the Taliban.

Catch 22

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Post date July 18, 2005
Categories In Fiction

by Joseph Heller, 1961 I was not able to continue reading this book after the first chapter or so. Something turned me off so badly, I threw it away. (I had picked it up for free from a garage sale.) However, it is a Pulitzer Prize winner and classic, so maybe I need to give […]