Summer Days – plenty of time to read and sew

I finally finished reading Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer.  It took me a few days.  When I needed a break (too much suspense), I would sew.  I now have a lovely new dress and two ankle length skirts.  Fun!  I must say that Breaking Dawn was simply fantastic.  I’ll probably read it again, if I [...]

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Twilight Series

When I first saw the trailer for the Twilight movie, I thought it was just some random, scary, teen movie.  When I was at a small town Wal-Mart that had several copies of the Twilight books and not much else, I began to wonder at it’s popularity.  After I began reading the first book, Twilight, [...]

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High Country by Nevada Barr

When looking for a book to review as an example of a fancy book report for my students to use as a guide when they do their own book reports, I thought of author Nevada Barr. She has a new book coming out April 1. It’s called Winter Study. I decided to [...]

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Veil of Roses

I would like to share a favorite book of mine with you.  Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald is a lovely novel.  It focuses on Tamila, a young woman who grew up in Iran.  She travels to America to stay with her sister.  The goal:  find a Persian-American (Iran-American) husband via an arranged marriage, before [...]

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Allah’s Fire

I just finished reading Allah’s Fire by Chuck Holton and Gayle Roper.  This inspirational novel focuses on a Special Ops soldier and an American reporter in Lebanon.
John, the soldier, works with his team to locate and shut down the manufacturers of an undetectable type of explosive that was used to bomb a hotel in Beirut.  Liz, [...]

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