Jumping over to a memoir in The Christmas Box Miracle by Richard Paul Evans for my next book in the Holiday Reading Challenge.
About the book: It has been six years since Richard Paul Evans’ debut novel, The Christmas Box, catapulted him out of obscurity and onto to the bestseller lists. Now, the international bestselling [...]

I’ve been cranking through the audio books and today’s is the memoir Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. (Now Reading can’t find the book but it’s there on Amazon, I see it.)
About the book: RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him [...]

My latest audio book is Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, [...]

I’m reading the last of my unread Carol Goodman books, The Sonnet Lover. (She’s one of my favorite authors and I’ve read all of her works so far.)
About the book: Did Shakespeare pen a series of passionate sonnets, unknown to modern scholarship, ardently praising a mysterious dark-haired beauty? This tantalizing question is raised in a [...]

Today’s book is Against Medical Advice by James Patterson and Hal Friedman. Since it’s school vacation week, I hope to read a lot and plan to mix up the genres.
From the Jacket: One morning when he was almost five years old, Cory Freidman woke up with the uncontrollable urge to shake his head. From that [...]

My newest read is Her Last Death: A Memoir by Susanna Sonnenberg. I got it from our school librarian and fellow booklover.  She’s been keeping my TBR pile stocked with the ones that she’s loved.
From the jacket:  Her Last Death begins as the phone rings early one morning in the Montana house where Susanna Sonnenberg [...]

Since I’m back to school I have little to no time to read “for fun” right now. I’m swamped with getting my year underway and it’s also the beginning of the dreaded Alternate Assessment window which saps all of my time and energy.
I am managing to read little snippets of Educating Esme: Diary of a [...]

I found this one, A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up in Mooreland, Indiana while browsing through the online audio books and the cover caught my eye. I’ve never read Haven Kimmel before so I’m giving it a try. This memoir is read by the author.

Since I’ve blown through 5 books in the past 3 days, I’ve got some time left on the remaining library books before they’re due. I’ve decided to pick up two that I hadn’t finished and had put aside to read other things, Wicked, The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by [...]

Trying to get through my soon-to-be-overdue pile from the library and this one is a shorty. Good Dog. Stay. by Anna Quindlen looks like a one day book for me. (At least I hope so… which will mean that I’m spending some of my vacation doing exactly what I want to do!