This is a strange book. Mostly, it was hard reading and boring. But then, the authors note at the end mentioned Amelia Earhart’s famous flight, and the rumor that it was actually a recognizance mission for the government.
This, after the book ends with the main character about to go off to Germany, in the late […]

Read in one night, this is chick-lit that doesn’t appall me as much at others. I’d read the Undomestic Goddess by her, and still remember one scene that cracked me up, even though I don’t remember the plot.
But this one? Not quite as funny. There were some clever bits, and some characters that amused me… […]

This book, in which an apple tree was a character, had a lot of potential to be wonderderful and whimsical.
It didn’t really pan out to be anything more than a happily ever after silly love story though. I was completely charmed in the beginning, but it never really lived up to what I wanted it […]

Hmm… whatever.

“At that moment she felt an imperative need to believe that the stricken beast had a Maker, and her own eyes grew bright, but with blinding tears because of her mighty need to believe, a need that was sharper than physical pain, being born of the pain of the spirit.”
“They were pawns in the ruthless […]