Marie's book garden

Yes Please , by Amy Poehler Reading Yes Please is like sitting down with your wackiest, most honest friend, the one who tells you everyth...

Blood Brothers , by Elias Chacour My dear friend and Lutheran pastor, who visited Palestine in 2014, advised me that Blood Brothers was a...

Baby's On Fire , by Liz Prato I'm not really much of a short story person. I'd always prefer reading a novel. In fact, I didn...

Maud's Line , by Margaret Verble I checked this historical novel out of the library because I actually knew a woman who grew up in Okl...

Between the World and Me , by Ta-Nehisi Coates Such a hard, beautiful, and important book! Highly acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote ...

Masterminds and Wingmen , by Roasalind Wiseman A great book about boys, written by the author of Queenbees and Wannabes , who is actually ...

God Is Disappointed in You , by Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler This is a funny retelling of each of the books of the Bible, in a highly ...

Tibetan Peach Pie , by Tom Robbins If you've ever read Tom Robbins, you're well familiar with his gallivanting across the field of...

Judgment Calls , by Alafair Burke Confession: I acquired this book somewhere solely because it was based in Portland. I love to read books...

The Boston Girl , by Anita Diamant Another book group selection, The Boston Girl came on the heels of A Gesture Life , our October book gr...

A Gesture Life , by Chang-Rae Lee A Gesture Life is another book that was really hard to get into, but the patience paid off. If it hadn...

I'll Give You the Sun , by Jandy Nelson I loved this book. Written for young adults, I'll Give You the Sun is about fraternal twi...

In a Dark, Dark Wood , by Ruth Ware Score one point for Ruth Ware for prompting me to think about this book in the middle of the night. In...

Go Set a Watchman , by Harper Lee I debated whether to read Go Set a Watchman for quite some time, but finally curiosity got the best of m...

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves , by Karen Joy Fowler Here's one of the many values of book group for me: it makes me stick wit...

In the Blood , by Lisa Unger This was my summer light read; I took it with me to Florida in August. It was a psychological thriller abou...

Skeletons at the Feast , by Chris Bohjalian Skeletons at the Feast takes place shortly before the second world war ends, told from the pe...

Rapture Practice , by Aaron Hartzler Aaron Hartzler grew up in an extremely conservative, religious home, where just disagreeing with his ...

A Monster Calls , by Patrick Ness Still trying to catch up on my book reviews...this was my July book club selection. Patrick Ness ...

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing , by Marie Kondo I'd been wanting to read ...