Bonnie's Books

Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis ~ by Lauren F. Winner, 2012, memoir Synopsis:  In the critically acclaimed memoir Girl Meets God , Laur...

You Are My Only ~ by Beth Kephart, 2011, YA fiction Have you read this book yet?  Because of NaNoWriMo and writing at least 1,667 words...

Nowhere Hair ~ by Sue Glader, illustrated by Edith Buenen, 2011, children's This is the story of a young girl who tries unsuccessfully...

You Are My Only ~ by Beth Kephart, 2011, YA fiction Emmy Rane is married at nineteen, a mother by twenty.  Trapped in a life with a husba...

Wendy at Caribousmom had several book giveaways during BBAW (Book Blogger Appreciation Week). I entered the one for Speculative Fiction —...

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts ~ by Maxine Hong Kingston, 1975, 1976 The back cover of this paperback says "Fi...

Alison at So Many Book, So Little Time recently wrote about Billy Collins, the Poet Laureate of the United States (2001-2003).  Her book gr...

Born to Win: Transactional Analysis with Gesalt Experiments ~ by Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward, 1971 I remember a day when I was rea...

I stopped by the library on my way home today to pick up the December book selection for the Book Buddies , my online book club.  The Housek...

I'm back to this book, which I put aside for a couple of books due back at the library in seven days.  I'm enjoying this book, and t...

"Throughout my childhood I struggled to answer the simplest of questions: where are you from? I was born in Saudi Arabia to Palestinia...

Hummingbirds by Joshua Gaylord (2003) walked in my door today. Okay, you technical folks, it walked in the door using my feet.  At any rate...

Grammar Moves: Shaping Who You Are by Lawrence Weinstein and Thomas Finn has a copyright date of 2011. Here's the start of the Introdu...

This week I brought home only one library book -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 1943 -- and that only because I'm leading th...

Here's my review of Speak .  We are nearing the end of Banned Books Week (this weekend), but not the end of people trying to ban books....

First edition cover Mark Twain once said of his detractors: "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a b...

Laurie Halse Anderson wrote on her blog:  This guy thinks SPEAK is pornography .  It caused a ruckus!  Today, Laurie posted The Power of Sp...

Kavita has a daughter and, in a culture that favors sons, her husband Jasu takes away the baby before Evita has even stopped bleeding. When...

I'll be writing about this book in my very next post (tomorrow), but here is a humorous teaser I want to share from page 126 of Seven Ye...