Showing posts with label summer reading list. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer reading list. Show all posts

27 May 2009

Dress up your summer reading list!

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17 August 2008

Change of Heart ~ a must read!

As is typically the case with vacations, I read a lot. This year I began with my typical southern favorite authors. I quickly caught up on all of those and then my mom asked me if I had ever read anything by Jodi Picoult...She dropped Change of Heart in my lap.

While it may be her 15th book, it was the first one I have ever read by her and I was BLOWN AWAY! The book was simply amazing--you definately will not put it down:) Just when you think you know where it is going-BAM, you are headed in a completely different direction! I LOVE the writing style she uses--each chapter is a different character's voice!
Here is a synopsis from Jodi Picoult's site....

Synopsis:

Shay Bourne - New Hampshire’s first death row prisoner in 69 years – has only one last request: to donate his heart post-execution to the sister of his victim, who is looking for a transplant. Bourne says it’s the only way he can redeem himself…but with lethal injection as his form of execution, this is medically impossible. Enter Father Michael Wright, a young local priest. Called in as Shay’s spiritual advisor, he knows redemption has nothing to do with organ donation – and plans to convince Bourne. But then Bourne begins to perform miracles at the prison that are witnessed by officers, fellow inmates, and even Father Michael – and the media begins to call him a messiah. Could an unkempt, bipolar, convicted murderer be a savior? It seems highly unlikely, to the priest. Until he realizes that the things Shay says may not come from the Bible…but are, verbatim, from a gospel that the early Christian church rejected two thousand years ago…and that is still considered heresy.

Change Of Heart looks at the nature of organized religion and belief, and takes the reader behind the closely drawn curtains of America’s death penalty. Featuring the return of Ian Fletcher from Keeping Faith, it also asks whether religion and politics truly are separate in this country, or inextricably tangled. Does religion make us more tolerant, or less? Do we believe what we do because it’s right? Or because it’s too frightening to admit that we may not have the answers?

Now that I am addicted to her books...I'm going to have a really difficult time deciding which one to read next!
Heather

12 July 2008

My summer reading list....

I am getting ready to start THINKING about going on vacation in just a short couple of weeks! And, of course, I have to get my reading material in order! I love to read while I am on vacation and usually read about 1 book a day--which means I am reading about 15 books while I am gone! Some of my absolute favorite books are of the "southern flair"....there is something about a southern woman amidst a drama that gets me each and every time:)

I'm not sure if you have ever read anything by Mary Kay Andrews, but if you like to laugh when you read, her books are certainly well worth the read! They are an absolute must for vacation reading! I will be reading her latest book, Deep Dish, while I am on vacation in a few weeks!
Books by Mary Kay Andrews:

Another author ideal for your summer reading is Dorthea Benton Frank. I have 3 of her books to catch up on this vacation and cannot wait to start. The first book I read by her was Plantation and it absolutely got me hooked!

Books by Dorthea Benton Frank:


Happy summer reading!