Marshall Public Library Reads!

Monday, May 28, 2012

Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

223 pages

As the books I selected for the three-day weekend only lasted two days, I re-read a book from my top 25 books.

Faces of the Gone by Brad Parks

330 pages

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Roommates Wanted by Lisa Jewell

461 pages

1990 Please write and tell me why you should live here

Toby Dobbs received a big Victorian house with too many bedrooms to count as a wedding present from his father, but his marriage is over within a month. Very alone, and very lonely, Toby posts an advertisement seeking the "Unexpectedly Alone" to become his roommates. Fifteen years later, the wayward souls he takes in are still living with him, with no intention of leaving.

2004 Please tell me how I can convince you to move out.

Toby Dobbs has met Leah Pilgrim from across the road, and they're falling in love. But before they can begin a new life together, Toby and Leah must help Toby's house of sweet slackers and lovelorn misfits grow up, solve their problems, and set themselves free. But can their new relationship survive the test?

--- from the back cover--

A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini

432 pages

"Set like its predecessor in war-torn Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns uses that tumultuous backdrop to render the heroic plight of two women of different generations married to the same savagely abusive male. Born out of wedlock, Mariam was forced to marry 40-year-old Rasheed when she was only 15. Then, 18 years later, her still childless husband angrily takes an even younger wife. Hosseini renders the story of Mariam and her "sister/daughter," Laila, with persuasive detail and consummate humanity. Their abject situation leaves them no emotional space for idle philosophizing; their resistance is from the very core of their being."

I can't recommend this book enough. It's fantastic.