I Love the Library!

Last summer while we were in Utah for Spencer's internship I got on this reading kick and read about 6 books. I was always at the Provo library getting something new. Since then I haven't read anything at all. But a few months ago I got back in the mood and this is what I have read. I enjoyed all of them and would recommend them to anyone.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

Guernsey is one of the Channel Islands, nominally part of Great Britain but located in the English Channel, close enough to see mainland Europe with the naked eye. And, as the residents of Guernsey discover during World War II, close enough for the Germans to occupy. What started out as a layover during an intended full-out invasion of the British Isles resulted in a five-year occupation that changed the lives of these quiet, simple people forever.

Just Take My Heart

Assistant District Attorney Emily Wallace is given the case of a lifetime. Actress Natalie Raines was murdered two years ago, but nobody was ever charged with the crime. That is, until now, when career criminal Jimmy Easton comes forward to say the woman’s husband approached him with a plan to kill her.

Drowning Ruth

Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. A mesmerizing and achingly beautiful debut.

Love Walked In

Philadelphia cafe manager Cornelia Brown drifts effortlessly through her unattached life, unapologetic for idealizing romance and breathlessly recommending The Philadelphia Story—to the reader and everyone else. Eleven-year-old Clare is a child of divorce whose mother, a successful party planner, is quickly going to pieces. In alternating chapters of Cornelia's first person and Clare's free and direct third, poet de los Santos, making her novel debut, tells the story of their finding each other.

I own Loved Walked In and Drowning Ruth if anyone here in Lexington wants to borrow them.