Westside Book Chat

We miss a lot of you this month but what can we say...you're adults, it's your own fault :) (my empathy meter is dead at this stage in my life--sorry)---hope to see you all for next month!!

Here is the list of books that were talked about at our open forum with their star ratings.

Janae (my sister) brought:

•  The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty ***+
• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen ****
•  The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister *****

 Angela brought:

• How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewllyn ****
• Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison ***

Christy brought:

•  Wildwood series by Juliet Marillier ***+
• What's on the Other Side by Brent L. Top *****
• A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix **
• The False Prince by Jennifer Nielson ***+
• Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas ***+

Margaret brought:

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy ****
• All The Pretty Horses by Cormack McCarthy **
• The Aloha Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini ***
• Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver ****

Annette brought:

• The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman ***+
• Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor ****
• Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski ***+
• Excuses Begone: How to Change Lifelong Self-Defeating Thinking Habits by Wayne W. Dyer****
• Sweep series by Cate Tiernan **+
• Man in the Moon by William Joyce *****

 We did talk about next month but with so few of us together we didn't make any definite plans.  I had a few ideas but one of them I want to run by Sheri Lee before I make the group suggestion.

Happy Reading, Friends!