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Book Review: The Boston Girl

What better way to spend a Saturday, other than cuddled up on the couch watching Parenthood and writing...it only gets better because I am writing about books. The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant  If you are in the mood for magnificent storytelling, this is the only thing you need.  I wish, I yearn , to write like Diamant. How she crafted this story of past, present and future so flawlessly is beyond me.  First, I have to start with why this book caught my eye, besides the fact that it was featured in People and all of my Goodreads recommendations. Anita Diamant is the author of The Red Tent , which is an unexpected favorite of mine that I read a couple years ago.  So I knew there was a big chance I would love this book as well.  The Boston Girl opens with Addie Baum, a woman in her eighties, who has just been asked by her granddaughter "what made you the woman you are today?" and Addie starts to tell her story. Addie Baum grew up in the ea

Book Round Up: High School English Edition

You don't like to admit it, but we all know how much everyone loved SparkNotes.  Whether you just didn't want to, you couldn't find the time, or the subject matter was so over your head you couldn't cope, there were books in high school English class that you pretended to read, but actually didn't.  For me, as a bookworm now, I can't believe there were books I left unturned. Especially if people were telling me to read. Nowadays, I have to beg for time to read. I can't believe I ever passed up the chance to read when people were requiring it of me.  The books that I did read and will NEVER forget:  To Kill A Mockingbird Romeo & Juliet The Scarlett Letter  The Great Gatsby  The Lord of the Flies The Odyssey  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  The Giver  My Antonia  Books that I Didn't Actually Read: Great Expectations  1984   A Tale of Two Cities  The Catcher in the Rye Animal Farm  Uncle Tom's Cabin And then I h

Show Us Your Books: February Edition

UShow Us Your Books  There isn't a blogger I love more than Steph at Life According to Steph. This woman never runs out of interesting things to talk about, funny lists, great books and amazing recipes. She's just a great person so when she tells me to blog about the books I read last month, that's what I'm going to do, even if I am almost too late for the link up.  Check out Steph and her co-host Jana's list of February reads too!  Here's what I read in February:  Funny Girl by Nick Hornby- A romp of a good read that explores the world of television when things had just started getting funny in Britain. It's the 1960s and Barbara wants to get out of her boring town. She has big dreams to become the next Lucy Ball. The story has great potential but I was pretty bored throughout the last quarter of the book. I wanted more details.  I chose this book for the "pick a book written by a male author" portion of my Book Challenge. I don