American On Purpose : The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot - Craig Ferguson
Summary: In America on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American drea…
High School Asylum - Adam Dustus
Summary: Growing up is no easy task...but try doing it after a near-death experience and the death of your father. Art…
The Willoughbys - Lois Lowry
Summary: "Shouldn't we be orphans?" Barnaby B asked. The Willoughby children were seated on the front st…
The War on Privacy - Jacqueline Klosek
Summary: In today's globalized society, the war on terror has negatively affected privacy rights not just in the U…
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
Summary: In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singu…
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen
Summary: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more br…
Stitches : a Memoir - David Small
Summary: One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into …
The Trophy Wives Club - Kristin Billerbeck
Summary: Haley Cutler is the consummate trophy wife. Perhaps was is the more accurate term. Halley married Prince Cha…
Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Summary: There were no surprises in Gatlin County. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't hav…
The Sign for Drowning - Rachel Stolzman
Summary: Anna has grown up haunted by her younger sister's death. In the life she constructs as a barrier against …
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Summary: In 1792, during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, an English aristocrat known to be an ineffectual…
"Evernight" Giveaway
I have too many books. You might say, " That's just impossible. There is no such thing as too many books.&quo…
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Also reviewed by Mindy and Anne , a guest reviewer. Summary: January 1946: Writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter fro…
The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
Also reviewed by Kari and Mindy . Summary: What if the gods of Olympus were alive in the 21 st Century? What if the…
Shudder - Jennie Hansen
Summary: Darcy and Clare grew up as best friends, sharing trials and triumphs from preschool through college graduatio…
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - Judi Barrett
Summary: If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn't it be marvelous? Or would it? It could, after all, be me…
Bitter is the New Black - Jen Lancaster
Summary: This is the story of a how a haughty former sorority girl went from having a household income of almost a qua…
Crossfire - Traci Hunter Abramson
Summary: Special Agent Vanessa Lauton is living a lie. For the past year She’s been posing as a member of the Dominic…
A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies - Ellen Cooney
Summary: Charlotte Heath, a lively, independent redhead of humble beginnings, is married to the scion of the powerful …
The Alleluia Files - Sharon Shinn
This is the third book in the Samaria series and final book in the Archangel trilogy. Feel free to read my reviews of…
Daniel's Favorite Books List
Selections from Daniel's favorite books list Fiction Foucault's Pendulum , Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco Neur…
A New Year, a New Reviewer
Dear RFS Readers, To ring in 2010, here at Reading For Sanity , we thought it was high time we did something a little d…
Vanishing Act - Art Wolfe
Summary: One of the world's preeminent nature photographers shows the beauty and evolutionary brilliance of animal…
Jovah's Angel - Sharon Shinn
This is the second book in Sharon Shinn's Samaria Series. Click here to read my review of the first book, Archange…
Happy New Year & Congratulations
Happy New Year to all our fellow book lovers out there! Whether you have just found our blog, or been a long time foll…