Thursday, April 28, 2011

The Amanda Project

I usually don't read mysteries.  I started reading this book before I realized it was a mystery and by then I was drawn into the story and just had to finish it!  Now I am realizing that it the first of eight books!  It is quite the page turner, but I don't know if I want to commit to reading eight books! 

I am well into the book, being on page 223 out of 304, and Amanda is the subject of the book, but she has not shown up yet!  She has left clues and has brought three of her friends together.  Friends that didn't know she was friends with the others.  Quite a collection of different types of personalities! 

This book is recommended for grades 7--10, but I think adults who love mysteries would enjoy it too.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Same Kind of Different

Our book club is discussing Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore tonight at dinner at The Claddaugh Irish Pub on Mason Montgomery Road.  It is a book that causes me to have mixed feelings.  It almost makes me feel like they were using Deborah's illness to make the book famous.  But, then, that is what happened.  So, it had to be in there.  It had to be explained.