Marie's book garden

The Cuckoo's Calling , by Robert Galbraith Unless you've been sleeping under a rock, you'll know that this is the latest boo...

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand , by Helen Simonson This book was my book group's selection for August. Major Pettigrew is an old-sch...

Bruised , by Sarah Skilton This book took a bit of time for me to grow into, but I liked it in the end. It's about 16-year-old Imo...

The Chosen One , by Carol Lynch Williams As I'm recovering from another ear surgery, I decided to try out some young adult books in th...

The Street of a Thousand Blossoms , by Gail Tsukiyama In this WWII- and post-war-era story that takes place in Japan, two orphaned broth...

Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir , by Cyndi Lauper with Jancee Dunn My first memory of Cyndi Lauper was when I was a junior in college, and ...

Wave , by Sonali Deraniyagala This is a devastating, heart-breaking memoir about grief. If you can't handle this kind of story, stop...

And the Mountains Echoed , by Khaled Hosseini This is the third novel by Khaled Hosseini, who wrote  The Kite Runner and A Thousand Spl...

Towelhead , by Alicia Erian This book's been on my bookshelf for some time--I must have picked it up at a used book sale--and I was ...

Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church , by Lauren Drain and Lisa Pulitzer I feel ambivalent about this book, which...

Vanishing Acts , by Jodi Picoult Wow--this is the 11th book I've read by Jodi Picoult. Some are definitely better than others. The on...

 What if my husband's beloved Game of Thrones series had been written by a woman? Yesterday author Maureen Johnson tweeted ...

A Tale for the Time Being , by Ruth Ozeki A Tale for the Time Being is the first full-price hardcover book I remember purchasing for...

Book lovers need to check this out: 50 reasons you should be a bookworm , by Qwiklit.com, which looks like a great web site to add to my lis...

The Little Book , by Selden Edwards I'd been looking forward to reading The Little Book for my book group this month, and in the be...

Unexpectedly Milo , by Matthew Dicks This was another "scan the library bookshelves" find, a quirky story about a thirtysometh...

Veil of Roses , by Laura Fitzgerald I'm easily drawn into stories that take place in different countries or cultures, such as this n...

In the days before I started blogging and writing book reviews, I read two books by a Japanese-American writer and film maker named Ruth O...

Bruce , by Peter Ames Carlin Somehow, I'm not sure why, I was late to the Bruce Springsteen train. I knew his more popular songs and...

The Burning , by Jane Casey I read Jane Casey's first novel, The Missing , and was not as nearly taken with it as her second, The Bu...