Wow, wow, wow. I felt so many emotions during this read. I identified with each of the main characters and could feel for them as well as withthem.
Imagine being a teenage girl trapped in a sterile house with just your mother, a nurse, the occasional tutor. No friends, certainly no boyfriend. No prom, or homecoming. You haven’t seen the outside world since you were diagnosed with an allergy to the world. Imagine that there may be a chance that you could live a different life, a life outside of your house with people and mistakes and love. Imagine one day a new boy moves in next door and he brings with him questions of “what if” and a reason to want out of the only world you know. Would you risk your life to find out who you are outside of that world, what love feels like and what it feels like to breathe?
Now imagine you are a woman who lost her husband and son leaving you with single daughter. The daughter starts to get ill, like children do, but fear of losing her makes you overreact and one might say obsess, over her life. You would do anything to keep her safe, even if that means convincing her and yourself that isolating her is the best way to do that.
I am a daughter and a mother and I have been in a place wear I trusted my mom with my life. Now I am the one that someone has placed all their trust into. What extent would I, or you, go through to keep a child safe? Would I risk losing her in the end? Would I take away her life to keep her in mine?
I picked up Rush by Lisa Patton off the library new release shelf because I had heard from fellow book bloggers that it was fantastic and an unexpected read. They were right and I am so glad I gave Rush a chance and I highly recommended it to all of my friends.
For Poetry Tea Time we read a collection of poems about animals and made polar bears with mini ice cream cups, chocolate chips, Hershey drops, and mini vanilla wafers. We made several through out the week actually because there were so many leftover ingredients! No complaints from anyone!!
Secrets of the south? Yes please! The Dying of the Light by Robert Goolrick was a great read from the beginning. I love historical fiction and suspense and this book combined those genres perfectly. This book was sexy, sad, angering, and a glimpse into the secrets that pedigree in the south in known to keep hidden. The characters were well developed and hilarious, sad, and intertwined. Saratoga, a house, old and infamous, located in Virginia, is the setting. The time and ambiance is the south between the World Wars. Starting with Diana trying to save her family from a financial disaster in a way similar to that of Reba McIntire’s Fancy and ending with a fire, but the secrets, romance, death, loss, coming out, misunderstood feelings between the beginning and end is where the true story lies. I started to see the writing on the wall so to speaking a few chapters from the end and wasn’t entirely shocked by the final moments. I give this 5 stars and more if that was an option.
Set in the 1920’s, The Circus Thief is a sweet story about a little boy, Georgie, that just wants to go to the circus in town. Upon permission of taking a friend along with them, Georgie and his father head to the circus. After being chosen to ride the star of the circus, an Arabian named Roxie, Georgie finds himself in a situation. Georgie’s father saved the day for not only Georgie, but Roxie too.
Army of Readers 