This is my yearly round-up of the books I read in 2013. Generally, I read what I refer to as "Light Fluff" I don't watch TV, so this is my entertainment. There were a few books that were tragic, and a couple that were a waste of my time......hours I will never get back. So here Goes..
Fellowship of the Ring
The One I Left Behind
Home Front
Belle Weather
Red Mist
The Round House
The Aviators Wife (about Charles Lindbergh)
The Life of Pi
The Princess Bride
(book-club pick.....very different, the movie was a fabulous adaptation, but this was written in a strange way and the credit he give the story......odd)
Heads in Beds
(This book is about the Hospitality Industry and what goes on in a an upscale Hotel......so interesting.)
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Defending Jacob (such a good read)
Taken
The Burgess Boys
The Light Between Oceans
(This was a sad little story. I suggested it for book club after I read it. Everyone loved it, it will make you weep......uncontrollably.)
Beautiful Day
The Yard
The Three Sisters
Tuesday Night Miracles
Dr. Sleep
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
(I really loved this story about a young girl and and Uncle that passes away and the relationship between the family and secrets that emerge)
The Talisman
Joyland
The Yonahlosee Riding Camp for Girls
Always Watching
The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell
Cold Sassy Tree
(I didn't read this book. I listened to it on CD, and I would highly recommend this, The gentleman the narrates this book has a wonderfully charming voice and southern accent and it totally sucked me into the wonderful story.)
Leaving Cold Sassy
Code Name Verity
(I really liked this book, it's a WWII book about a
woman pilot and spy.)
A Face in the Crowd
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
The Great Gatsby
Life after Life (strange but good)
Orphan Train
(This is a sad little page from American history that I knew nothing about. A pastor in a large eastern city - I think New York - thinks it would be good to get orphaned children off the street begging. He made arrangements and put them on trains heading west. They would stop in cities and people would greet the train and take children that they thought they would want, or could use to assist farming, household work etc. There were fortunate stories and unfortunate stories. There are (2) main characters, and in telling the story about how their lives are joined)
The Lost Wife
The Hypnotist's Love Story
(This author Liane Moriarty is one I really like)
The Summer Guest
Dark House
A Movable Feast
The Kitchen House
(This is a story that is hard to read, but so so good. I also suggested this for a book club read, and everyone loved it.)
The Paris Wife
(This is a story of the early years of Ernest Hemingway and his 1st wife, and their life with other ex-pats in Paris.)
What Alice Forgot
(a Liane Moriarty book..about a woman who falls off a treadmill at the gym, wakes up and has forgot the past 10 years of her life. She thinks she's pregnant and in reality, she has (2) children, and is in the middle of divorce proceeding.....ugly divorce.......it is a great read - very entertaining, and a bit moving.)
Beautiful Ruins
Where'd you go, Bernadette
(such a light fluff read......I thoroughly enjoyed it.)
The Alchemist
(started but couldn't get into it- maybe another day)
American Gypsy
