Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling

This book was pretty funny.  Not as funny as The Office but still funny.  I did enjoy it and it was a quick read for those of you who are selective on what you read you might not want to read it.  There is some language and she talks about anything.  She is a girl after my own heart.  This was also a quick read.  Available for ebooks so you can't go wrong. 

The Magicians - Lev Grossman

I didn't really feel the love for this book.  I had heard that it was soooo good not sure if I expected to much and that was the problem or if I would have been equally dissapointed even if I had heard nothin.  Quentin has always loved the Fillory novels (very similar to the Lion the witch and the wardrobe series) right before graduation he finds out that magic is real and gets recruited to a magic school.  This was a little like another magical school I had read about.  However then things grew up real fast I thought.  This definately wasn't a kids book.  These kids were at school with a bunch of adult teachers but had free reign and could do whatever they wanted.  They smoked, drank, did drugs, slept around and were very dissappointing people.  After graduation realizing that they have done the most exciting things that they will ever do and that real life is boring they decide to spend the rest of their life going from one high to the next.  I am willing to give anything a try but have to admit that if I hadn't had this on my nook I wouldn't have finished it.  The story had potential but was kind of boring.  While I wouldn't say that the letter F was a sponser of this book they did kick the word around a lot and then with all of the other content this book definately isn't for everyone.  I did really want to like it but am afraid that I didn't really care for it. 

A Great Deliverance - by Elizabeth George

Two police detectives from Scottland Yard get sent to a small English town to solve a horrible murder.  While there they end up discovering just how sick some people can be.  This family is so far past disfunctional that they can't even see it in the rear view mirror.  Yes I did just say that.  I loved this book though so much I got the movie from the library yes it was made into a pbs movie and I will be watching it this weekend. 

The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein

Ok I cannot tell you how much I loved, loved, loved this book.  I couldn't put it down.  It was so good.  This is the story of Harry (the author of the book) from about 4 to maybe 12.  He and his family lived on a street in England where one side of the street was Jewish families and the other side was Christian.  The story follows their daily lives and some of the things that happen I laughed, I cried and everything in between.  If there is such thing does that make sense?  I recommend this book, if you read no other book this year this is the one I think that you should read.  He has written two others that come after this and I have them from the library and will be reading them next.

Flutter by Amanda Hocking

Alice life is still exciting and so are the people in it.  This is the third book in the my blood approves series.  Don't want to say to much cause of spoilers but it was good.  I have started the fourth and I think it might be the best of them all.

A Walk Across the Sun - Corban Addison

Not that my overviews do justice to any of the books I talk about here I knew there was no way that I could on this book.  I am including the overview from the Barnes and Noble sight about the book.

When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. As they struggle to reach the safe haven of the convent where they attend school, they are abducted by human traffickers and thrust into a hidden world of sexual violence and illicit commerce, where the most valuable prize is the innocence of a child.

Halfway across the world, in Washington, D.C., attorney Thomas Clarke faces his own personal and professional crises. Haunted by the tragic death of his infant daughter and estranged from his wife, he makes the fateful decision to pursue a pro bono sabbatical in India with an NGO that prosecutes the subcontinent's human traffickers. In Mumbai, his conscience awakens as he sees firsthand the horrors of the sex trade and the corrupt judicial system that fosters it. When he learns the fate of Ahalya and Sita, Clarke makes it his personal mission to rescue them, setting the stage for a deadly showdown with an international network of ruthless criminals.

Before I was even 100 pages into this book I was thinking that there was no way that I could finish it.  I had already been crying countless times and knew that it would only get worse as the story progressed.  I tried to walk away from this story a number of times.  I am so glad that I didn't put this book down, but it also was very disturbing.  It was a great book.  I know, I know none of that makes sense to me either.  I loved the sisters in this book and their story of their family and I wanted to reach in and protect them from all of the disturbingly, evil, abusive men (and some women) that they came in contact with.  I would read until I couldn't read anymore then walk away until I had to find out if they escaped and then the whole process started all over again. 

This isn't a book for everyone not because it is graphic but because of the subject.  The author listed some websites at the end of the book that I am going to list here.  I have looked at a few but haven't had the chance to look at all of them yet. 

WWW.state.gov/g/tip
www.polarisproject.org
www.fondationscelles.org
www.sharedhope.org
thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com


I think that if you read this book it will have a major impact.

Fate - Amanda Hocking (#2 My Blood Approves)

Alice seems to have finally balanced her two worlds, things are going well at home with her brother and even better in her relationship with her boyfriend Jack and his supernatural lifestyle.  Oh and with Peter he is still out there, they are still bonded and meant to be together but in the mean time she is dating his brother Jack who she loves and wants to be with as long as Peter isn't in the room.  When a tragedy strikes her world she must make an unthinkable decision for someone she loves very much.


Another good book.  On to number three.