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I know it seems baffling to be writing book reviews on Christmas Eve. But, the presents are wrapped, the house is relatively clean, the laun...

Kitty is a beautiful young woman, raised by her shallow and socially aggressive mother to be equally shallow and ambitious. In spite of her ...

I needed a nice story to read at our Relief Society Christmas party and my sister in Canada immediately suggested this one. Having never hea...

I'm not sure I can separate this book review from my politics. Although, after reading some of the other reviews of this book, I'm...

If ever a book was to get a "meh" rating, this would be it. Not bad but not necessarily good, Recovering Charles tells the story ...

I've been wanting to read this book for years. Literally. I'm not quite sure why it has taken me as long as it has, other than th...

I was guided to this book by several people after I raved about my love for The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society . Now that I...

I hated this book. Let's just get that out of the way so there is no confusion later on. Ken Follett describes a gloomy, dismal, nearly...

Written by a group of smart, articulate and thoughtful women who write for Segullah Magazine and Blog Segullah , The Mother In Me compiles ...

I shouldn't be allowed to read classic children's literature. My brain simply doesn't appreciate its intended purpose - creativi...

I'm shocked...shocked, by how much I loved this book. The narrator is a dog. There is much mentioning of racing - Formula One, NASCAR, I...

I love Leif Enger's writing. It's almost like he has some sort of program akin to Photoshop for writing - and manages to edit words...

This book was brought to my attention several months ago but I didn't seriously consider reading it because I thought it was essentially...

It wasn't until I told someone, out loud, what I was reading that I realized the title, Ella Minnow Pea, really sounded like the "L...

Regarded as the first mystery novel, The Woman In White tells the story of Laura Fairlie, a young, beautiful heiress engaged to marry an old...

So - the big news is I've found myself a bookgroup! I rank finding a bookgroup I enjoy right up there with finding an OB/GYN, hair styl...

Guernsey is a small Island in the English Channel that was controlled for five years by German forces during World War II. After the war, a...

A Town Like Alice reminds me so much of my favorite book, Mrs. Mike . Both catalog the difficulties and triumphs of living in remote areas...

This book will get me up to date and hopefully I'll lose that feeling of being behind and unorganized. Maybe. At least in this area of...

I've never read Kurt Vonnegut, but have been told by enough readers that he's one of their favorite authors to pick up one of his bo...

I cannot remember who recommended this to me, but I'm fairly certain I was told to read it because it's not the kind of book I norma...

I think Nora Roberts is an almost David Sedaris. Not quite as funny, probably because her topics are safer and less random. She writes abou...

Originally written in Spanish and a European best-seller after it was published in 2001, Carlos Ruiz Zafón's book, Shadow of the Wind, w...

I liked this book. I really did. But it's not going to sound like it. Loved Walked In was recommended to me by Becky K ., a blogger wh...

What if you could write about whatever you wanted? What if no topics were off limits, no person's feelings or privacy taken into consid...

Written by Wallace Stegner, author of one of my all-time favorite books Angle of Repose , Crossing To Safety describes with beautiful prose ...

Stephanie Meyer breaks away from her vampire romance juggernaut to introduce a new story involving alien parasites called "souls"-...