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Not long ago I met a woman by the name of Gale in my Play Book Tag Group on Shelfari. She was a delightful woman with a very similar taste in books as mine. We got to know each other more when we were both chosen for the Darlingly Dynamic Diva's Group in a game we were both playing. Recently her daughter posted to The Play Book Tag group that Gale passed away last year. Sadly Gale stopped posting several months ago and I personally feel very sad that I didn't notice her absense sooner. We often make friends with people online and then don't realize how much time has passed since we last spoke with that person. I am vowing to try to change this about myself. Gale was a wonderful woman who should be remembered for her sweet demeanor and great taste in books, I wish I knew her longer. In memory of Gale I wanted to share Gale's Shelfari profile and the picture of her mosaic tabletop that she created (above right): "Although I have only been a member of Shelfari for a s...

On Wednesday night we had another successful Women of Washington Oaks (WoWO) book club meeting. This time we discussed The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Rating: 4 Stars by the WoWOs In Jackson, Mississippi in 1962 things were very different then they are today. During this time there are very clear lines between the white middle class elite and their African American help. As we learn in reading The Help, these lines do not get crossed without very real consequences. The Help follows three different, yet extraordinary, women through their everyday lives during this time: Skeeter is a white woman, just graduating from college, whose mother is disappointed that she has not found a man yet. Growing up she had a maid who, when she returned from school, was no longer employed at her home and no one will speak of what happened to her. Aibileen is an African American maid who is caring and nurturing to the children she is raising for the families that she works for. Aibileen loves and cherishes M...

Rating: 3/5 Stars Dragonflight is book one in the Dragonriders of Pern Series. I couldn't come up with a synopsis for this without giving away plot lines so here is the synopsis from BN.Com: After ten long turns, Lessa was ready to come out of hiding, to reclaim her birthright...and to Impress the young dragon queen and become Weyrwoman of Benden.Suddenly the deadly silver Thread once again threatened all Pern with destruction. But the mighty telepathic dragons that for centuries had defended Pern were now few in number, not nearly enough to protect the planet in its hour of greatest peril. So Lessa hatched a daring and dangerous scheme: Rally support from people who had long ago ceased to exist... I had some trouble with the language/translation of this book, especially in the beginning on the ramp up. The details didn't interest me all that much and I didn't take the time to really focus on the language and the details. If there was something I was unclear about I forged...

RAVEN STOLE THE MOON by Garth Stein WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT The winner was chosen via Random.org based on the number you were in the order of signing up for the challenge: The numbers assigned were as follows: 1) Annette 2) Strandlezer (Barbara) 3) Nicole (CoyoteMusic) 4) Suzanne 5) Nicole R 6) Annapi 7) WonderBunny 8) Roberta 9) Doy you love to read? (Melissa) 10) Mom2MandJ 11) Punxygal And without further ado... The winner chosen by Random.org is................................... # 8 ROBERTA Roberta, I have emailed you privately through your Blogger account for your mailing address. Please email me with your mailing address to Faith_Bookluvr@yahoo.com asap so that I can get the address to Terra Communications and we can get the book out to you ASAP. Thank you to Sarah at Terra Communications for supplying the book for the giveaway and to all of you who entered to make my first book giveaway a success!

Rating: 3.5/5 Stars In the sequel to Ashes to Ashes, A internal affairs cop, Andy Fallon, is found dead with a single message on the mirror, "Sorry." Although it looks like it could be a suicide or accidental death, something just doesn't seem right to Sargent Kovak. Even after the cops sweep this one under the rug as an accidental death, Kovak can't stop diving into the depths of this one. When Andy's father Mike is found dead and it too looks like suicide, until it is found to be a murder staged as suicide, Kovak and his partner Liska know that Andy's death is not what it seems to be and they are determined to find out the truth. There are alot of characters in this book and most of them are called by nicknames such as Ace, Tink, Kojak, etc. This book seemed very much like a real life detective story to me. It was gritty and interesting, all the characters were well developed and you find yourself suspecting this person or that one until the truth is u...

Welcome to my very first book giveaway! This GIVEAWAY has ended and the WINNER has been chosen Congratulations to Roberta! Thanks to all who entered. Thanks to Terra Communications for providing me with a review copy of Raven Stole the Moon ( read my review here ) and now a copy to give away to one of my blog followers! From the author of The Art of Racing in the Rain , Garth Stein's newly released book Raven Stole the Moon was released this week on HarperCollins and here is your chance to win a copy for yourself. Here is a synopsis of Raven Stole the Moon from BarnesandNoble.com: When Jenna Rosen abandons her comfortable Seattle life to return to Wrangell, Alaska, it's a wrenching return to her past. Long ago the home of her Native American grandmother, Wrangell is located near the Thunder Bay resort, where Jenna's young son, Bobby, disappeared two years before. His body was never recovered, and Jenna is determined to lay to rest the aching mystery of his death. But the s...

**Disclaimer: I received this book compliments of HarperCollins and Terra Communications in exchange for an honest review ** Publish Date: March 2010 Rating: 4/5 Stars Jenna and Robert had the perfect marriage until tragedy hit them two years ago. Jenna has since had issues getting over the loss of her son, who drowned and his body was never found. On the two year anniversary of the tragedy, Jenna runs away from her husband and life in Seattle to Alaska, the location of her ancestry and of the tragedy that changed their lives forever. Jenna needs this trip to get answers, hopefully this will allow her to heal and move forward with her life. Once in Alaska strange things begin to happen to her and she's lead on a path that once started she is determined to finish, there is no way she will turn back now. Intertwined with this story is the story of Shaman Dr. David Livingston, who almost died trying to rid Thunder Bay - the location of the tragedy, of it's negative powers before t...

This Challenge is hosted by worthreadingit The Challenge runs from March 8 2010 to December 13 2010 Directly from worthreadingit's blog: In the Hogwarts Reading Challenge you are a student of the school. You will be sorted into houses. Each book you read just fit in to the subject of one the classes. You do not have to read books that fit all the subjects. Each book equals one point toward the house cup). You must read at least 5 books before you are enter in to the drawing. At the end of the Challenge one person will win a $25 Amazon Gift Card and one house will win the House Cup (purely a pride thing). Check back regularly as there will be Mini Challenges. The first Mini Challenge will start on April 2nd. Come back to see what the challenge will be and it's incentive. To be eligible to win prizes you must have a blog and sign up using Mr. Linky. Then start your own Hogwarts Reading Challenge post and link it back to this post. ****Update you can be eligible for prize if you b...

I received an Advanced Readers Copy yesterday from Simon and Schuster and Im excited to read this one. This book actually came out in February this year, so if it interests you it is available for sale currently. Here is the Synopsis from BarnesandNoble.com: A shattering, poetic and raw first novel set among young Somalian refugees in the slums of London — beginning with a double suicide and ending with a rebirth. In a community where poverty is kept close and passed from one generation to the next, two teenage boys, best friends, stand on top of twin tower blocks. Facing each other across the abyss of London's urban sprawl, they say their good-byes and jump. One dies. The other, alternating with the sister of the deceased, narrates this novel. James gives us a window into the inner city — his mom is a crack addict, his gang "brothers" force him to kill another black boy. Meina describes with feeling her family history in Somalia: after her parents are killed before her e...

Rating: 3/5 Stars A silent killer is on the loose in San Francisco, killing the elite members of society. These deaths look like anything but murder but these people are too healthy to be dying of natural causes. This makes Claire, of the women's murder club, nervous and determined to find the cause of death. In the meantime, the brutal death of one of San Fransisco lowest members of society, the street people, is causing a ruckus because no one seems to care that this man is dead. As a favor to Cindy, who is reporting on the fact that the death of a street person goes unpunished, Lindsay uses her free time to look into this death. Between Cindy and Lindsay's investigations, they start to wonder that maybe this man isn't as wonderful as everyone on the street is making him out to be. As usual, there is a third story intertwined with a trial and Yuki, but it really takes a back burner to the other things happening in the story. As my first book completed in the month of marc...

As February flies by I find myself wondering where it went! Here are the books that I read this month (Click on the book titles to read my reviews): Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog by Lisa Scottoline 5/5 Stars Favorite Case Histories by Kate Atkinson 2/5 Stars Dear John by Nicholas Sparks 4/5 Stars Fear by Jeff Abbott (Audio) 4/5 Stars Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3/5 Stars Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll 2/5 Stars Loves Music, Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark 3/5 Stars My Favorite book of the month was by far "Why My Third Husband Will Be A Dog" by Scottoline. If you have not picked up this book yet, you need to do it. It's hilarious. My least favorite book was tougher to choose because I had trouble with "Through the Looking Glass" by Carroll, but it would probably be Case Histories by Kate Atkinson because it was a longer read and I had such high expectations for it. *baby, just say yes photo borrowed from ipainte...

I did not finish this challenge as I would have hoped. I only read 3/7 themed books planned. FALL WINTER MYSTERY CHALLENGE 1 Paranormal or gothic mystery for Halloween - Violets are Blue by James Patterson 2 Autumn/harvest/Thanksgiving related mystery - 2 Winter/snow/Xmas/Hannukah etc related mystery - 1 resolutions/new begininngs related mystery - Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger 1 Romantic mystery/Valentine's related - Pitch Black by Susan Crandall