Monday, August 5, 2013

Miracles Happen: the Transformational Healing Power of Past-Life Memories

Title: Miracles Happen: the Transformational Healing Power of Past-Life Memories
Author: Dr. Brian L. Weiss

An amazing book about how past life memories can positively impact our current life both emotionally and physically.

Non-fiction; rated 5 out of 5
Reviewed by Anonymous

I Love to Dance

Title: I Love to Dance
Author: Anna Walker

Very exciting book. It shows you all types of dancing. Very colorful!

Fiction; rated 5 out of 5
Reviewed by Theresa

Message in a Bottle

Title: Message in a Bottle
Author: Nicholas Sparks

I liked the love story, and the way the history of the characters was developed. Kept me interested. However, I like a predictable "happy ending" to a story. This "twist" ending was surprising, but not what I would have liked to see happen. I have heard this is common with Nicholas Sparks' books, and I don't know if I will read any more of his work.

Fiction; rated 4 out of 5
Reviewed by Anonymous

Friday, August 2, 2013

Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison

Title: Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
Author: Piper Kerman

True saga of a young woman who attended Smith College and whose life spiraled out of control after she delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. Harrowing account of life in a women's prison and how it changed her life forever.

Non-fiction; rated 5 out of 5
Reviewed by Eileen F.

Dead Ever After: a Sookie Stackhouse Novel

Title: Dead Ever After: a Sookie Stackhouse Novel
Author: Charlaine Harris

Dead Ever After is the last book of the Sookie Stackhouse series. In the beginning of the series it was great, new and inventive. Later on, after the sixth or so book, Ms. Harris seemed to have run out of innovative ideas. Nonetheless, I and readers alike kept on reading to find out what happens with Sookie and which paranormal hunk she ends up with. We eventually find out her fate, but with little action or suspense. Most of the other characters fade into oblivion, or have completely changed their behavior. Why spend years building up a relationship only to destroy it? Overall, Ms. Harris is the creator of this vampire world and she can do anything she wants, and her fans will suffer.

Fiction; rated 2 out of 5
Reviewed by Monika

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Merry Christmas, Alex Cross

Title: Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
Author: James Patterson

Excellent exciting romp through D.C. Murder, terrorism and Alex Cross at his best.

Fiction; rated 5 out of 5
Reviewed by Susan Emery

America 1933: the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal

Title: America 1933: the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal
Author: Michael Golay

Lorena Hickok, a top woman news reporter and dear friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, was hired by FDR right-hand man Harry Hopkins to embark on a grueling journey to the hardest hit areas of the country to report back on degree of devastation. What I liked was the sobering truth reporting. I was thinking of my parents who lived through it and got married in it the year 1937! My mom was 17, my father was 24. Sadly they had little or no education or godly wisdom to sustain the marriage. They were divorced in 1952!
Non-fiction; rated 4 out of 5
Reviewed by Michael Furlong