When someone asks me what my favorite genres are, I usually don’t include science fiction — but lately, each time I sit down to read a science fiction book, I always enjoy it more than I think I’m going, and this one is no exception. Sometime in the future of our planet, June is an absolutely brilliant young girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut like her uncle, whom she lives with after the death … Read More “In the Quick by Kate Hope Day” »
Publisher: Random House
If you haven’t read Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, stop what you’re doing and go get it. And read it. It won’t take long. It sucks you in and you won’t want to put it down. Now, pick this one up and find yourself back in Whistle Stop, back with the characters you loved, and you’ll see what happened to them after Fried Green Tomatoes ended. Buddy Threadgoode — the boy missing … Read More “The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop by Fannie Flagg” »
A father — President Abraham Lincoln — mourns his son, Willie — who has died of typhoid fever — as thousands of parents mourn their own sons — who have died in the first year of the American Civil War. This book takes place over one night (along with several flashbacks) in a crypt where “sick-forms” stay near their “sick-boxes” waiting to get well. They are unaware of the years and decades passing them, unaware … Read More “Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders” »
As the parent of a young child with cystic fibrosis, this is the book I wish all my friends would read. This not only conveys my fears for my child, but also my hope for him to be a “normal” teenager, have his own dreams, fall in love, grow old, and everything else that a parent of a “healthy” child takes for granted. Salt in My Soul is made up of lightly journal edited entries … Read More “Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life by Mallory Smith” »