Monthly Round-up for June 2010
Read
Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
Goy Crazy by Melissa Schorr
Strudel Stories by Joanne Rocklin
Does my head look big in this? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Pat of Silver Bush by L.M. Montgomery (REVIEW)
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
Annie on my mind by Nancy Garden
April and the Dragon Lady by Lensey Namioka
Currently Reading
Paris 1934 by Paul A. Myers (review book for the Historical Novel Society)
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson (on hold)
Books I couldn’t finish
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
This reminded me of Joanne Harris’s Chocolat, but I just didn’t get into the magical realism that is such a heavy element of the story.
Empress of the World by Sarah Ryan
I just couldn’t get into this story, the characters a little too much precocious teen snark for me.
The Monthly Round-up is a regular feature wherein I list the books I read each month.
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