Books

“What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.” — Anne Lamott

“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.” — Nora Ephron

Book Club:

"The stories we love best live in us forever" -JK Rowling

Join me for my Monthly Online Book Club! Grab a button to display on your blog.  Follow me on your Social Media of choice and share with your friends so they can read along too!

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The book I am reading each month will be posted on the 1st of the Month.  Read along with me or read the book of your choice and leave your comments!  Did you like the book?  Would you recommend it to a friend? No Spoilers Please! Don't give away any critical elements of the story in case someone hasn't had a chance to read it yet :)

5 stars: Love this book, I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend reading.
4 stars: Good Book, I would recommend this to a friend.
3 stars: Ok book.  It was worth reading but I wouldn't read it again.
2 stars: Not my favorite book.  I wouldn't buy it and I wouldn't recommend it.
1 star: Don't waste your time.

Read some great books along with me and get creative! Make a recipe or any kind of Arts and Craft or even a poem if you want that goes with the theme or correlates somehow with the book.  Link it up and have fun! The collection will be available until the end of the month so your post will get lots of exposure.  The person with the most views will get to pick a book for me to read later!

• Follow me with your Social Media of choice.
• Leave comments and let me know what you thought of the book! I will develop reading lists as more suggestions come in.

A Handful of Everything Books:

2014
Author Interview: Colleen Oakes and The Queen of Hearts
Author Interview and Giveaway: He Did You a Favor by Debra Rogers
The Edge of Normal by Carla Norton
  

Personal Reading List:
Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow

Book Club 2013
January: The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling
February: Anthem by Ann Rand
March: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
April: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
May: The Sky Beneath My Feet by Lisa Samson

Book Club 2012
September: Enclave by Ann Aguirre
October: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
November: This is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike by Augusten Burroughs
December: Outpost by Ann Aguirre