Showing posts from December, 2014

Happy New Year!! Wait, already?!

This year has been wonderful.  We've added new (amazing) reviewers, said goodbye to one, read our fair share of boo…

The Hundred-Year House - Rebecca Makkai

Summary:  Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents’ wealth but nevertheless finds hers…

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Barbara Robinson

Summary:  The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, smoke cigars, swear, and hit li…

Merry Christmas from Reading for Sanity

Today, during the hustle and the bustle and the wrapping and the last minute shopping and the cacophony of delightful h…

The Trouble With Chickens - Doreen Cronin

Summary:  J.J. Tully is a former search-and rescue dog who is trying to enjoy his retirement after years of performin…

The Mountain Place of Knowledge - Marshall Chamberlain

Summary:  The burial chamber of a revered Mayan sorceress is uncovered atop a sacrificial pyramid at the Caracol ruin…

The Artificial Intelligence Revolution - Louis A. Del Monte

Summary:  "The Artificial Intelligence Revolution" by Louis A. Del Monte is a warning regarding the threat ne…

Finding Me - Michelle Knight

Summary:   Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. F…

Between Shades of Grey - Ruta Sepetys

Summary:  Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crus…

What Has Become of You - Jan Elizabeth Watson

Summary:  What Has Become of You  follows Vera Lundy, an aspiring crime writer and master of self-deprecation who, like…

An Uncommon Blue - R.C. Hancock

Summary:   In TĆ©lesphore, the glowing color of a person’s palm determines their place in society, and touching hands wi…

Looking For Alaska - John Greene

Summary : before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession wit…

The Captain No-Beard Series - Carole P. Roman

Series Summary:  A young boy named Alexander, his cousin Hallie, and three stuffed animals board his bed and their worl…

A Curious Man - Neal Thompson

Summary:   "A Curious Man" is the marvelously compelling biography of Robert "Believe It or Not" Ri…