Showing posts from January, 2012

Recipes from the Root Cellar - Andrea Chesman

Summary: Late-harvest vegetables are the treasures in every locavore's winter kitchen. Robust hearty greens, sweet…

Draw the Dark - Ilsa J. Bick

Summary:   The things I draw.  They tend to die. There are things the people of Winter, Wisconsin, would rather forget.…

One for the Money - Janet Evanovich

Also reviewed by Heather . Summary:   Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plu…

Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Cabin Fever - Jeff Kinney

Summary:  Greg Heffley is in big trouble.  School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect.  But the cr…

Blessings - Anna Quindlen

Summary:   Blessings , the bestselling novel by the author of Black and Blue, One True Thing, Object Lessons, and A Sho…

The Freak Observer - Blythe Woolston

Summary:   For eight years, Loa Lindgren's world ran like one of those mechanical models of the solar system, with …

Look What I Just Got in the Mail...

Go ahead.  Be jealous. Since 2005, Stephanie Nielson has been the the author of the popular blog, The NieNie Dialogues…

The Great Fat Fraud - Mike Schatzki

Summary: Are you tired of buying diet book after diet book? Have you tried every exercise class at your gym? Are you r…

When She Woke - Hillary Jordan

Summary: Hannah Payne's life has been devoted to church and family. But after she's convicted of murder, she a…

Where She Went - Gayle Forman

Summary:   My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her.  I simply want to touch her cheek, still fl…

The Spiderwick Chronicles : The Seeing Stone - Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black

Summary:   Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace are drawn into a dangerous adventure when invisible creatures drag Simon int…

Divergent - Veronica Roth

Summary:   In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cult…

My First Summer in the Sierra - John Muir

Reading For Sanity would like to thank avid outdoorsman and guest reviewer, Michael Irving for this review.  Michael w…

The Lace Makers of Glenmara - Heather Barbieri

Summary:   "You can always start again," Kate Robinson's mother once told her -- "all it takes is a …

What My Mother Doesn't Know - Sonya Sones

Summary:   My name is Sophie This book is about me. It tells the heart-stoppingly riveting story of my first love. And …
Summer Shake-Up (June - August)

Summer Shake-Up (June - August)

Since three of us will be having babies just before summer hits , we have decided shake up our summer line-up to make t…