Sunday, September 8, 2013

The Storyteller

The StorytellerThe Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Bravo! Bravo! PIcoult integrated and intertwined the characters lives in only a way that she can. Completely and utterly incredible. The stories from the Holocaust serve as a reminder of the brutality and the cruelty of genocide. It's an absolutely heart breaking and warming book.

View all my reviews Book Description Release date: February 26, 2013 Some stories live forever . . . Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that others can’t, and they become companions. Everything changes on the day that Josef confesses a long-buried and shameful secret—one that nobody else in town would ever suspect—and asks Sage for an extraordinary favor. If she says yes, she faces not only moral repercussions, but potentially legal ones as well. With her own identity suddenly challenged, and the integrity of the closest friend she’s ever had clouded, Sage begins to question the assumptions and expectations she’s made about her life and her family. When does a moral choice become a moral imperative? And where does one draw the line between punishment and justice, forgiveness and mercy?

32 Candles

32 Candles32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I read this in one day - one sitting. Grant it - it was Saturday football. So the house is still and the boys are preoccupied, but it was absolutely delicious. Really funny, quirky, and romantic. I didn't always agree with Davie, but I found myself voting for her the whole time.

View all my reviews Book Description Release date: June 22, 2010 32 Candles is the slightly twisted, utterly romantic, and deftly wry story of Davie Jones, who, if she doesn’t stand in her own way, just might get the man of her dreams. Davie—an ugly duckling growing up in small-town Mississippi—is positive her life couldn’t be any worse. She has the meanest mother in the South, possibly the world, and on top of that, she’s pretty sure she’s ugly. Just when she’s resigned herself to her fate, she sees a movie that will change her life—Sixteen Candles. But in her case, life doesn’t imitate art. Tormented endlessly in school with the nickname "Monkey Night," and hopelessly in unrequited love with a handsome football player, James Farrell, Davie finds that it is bittersweet to dream of Molly Ringwald endings. When a cruel school prank goes too far, Davie leaves the life she knows and reinvents herself in the glittery world of Hollywood—as a beautiful and successful lounge singer in a swanky nightclub.