Spare Change

The Road to Grace

Faithful

Rapture

TBC

Cinder and Ella

Expecting Adam

By Martha Beck

TBC LOVED IT, this could be my story... except noghting magic ever happened... but, how sick she was... UGGG!!!

A Good Woman

By Danielle Steel

TBC

The Lost Years

By Mary Higgins Clark

TBC

Fallen in Love

By Lauren Kate

TBC

Twitterpated

By Melanie Jacobson

TBC

As The Ward Turns

By Joni Hilton

TBC

Betrayal

By Danielle Steel

This was a fun book to get lost in for a few days...

TBC

Get Me Out

By Randi Hutter Epstein

Oh my gosh!!! It is AMAZING that any of us LIVED!!! I can NOT believe what women lived threw while giving birth, even only 20 years ago!!! It is crazy that any one did it again, and again! (it must be because they had NO birth control...) This book is crazy, or maybe history is crazy, I am SO glad I am having my kids in the days of hospitals, and educated DR.s!

The first chapter had me out of my seat, saying that Eve had the WORST birth EVER!!! because it was the first, and because it was punishment for her 'SIN'.

Would I recommend it? um... um... it was interesting, I really did learn A LOT, and it made me so thankful that my OB went to school... So if you are in to the history of well of all man kind then I guess sure. (but make sure that you are reading another book at the same time...)

Making and having babies ”what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver ”has mystified women and men for the whole of human history. The birth gurus of ancient times told newlyweds that simultaneous orgasms were necessary for conception and that during pregnancy a woman should drink red wine but not too much and have sex but not too frequently. Over the last one hundred years, depending on the latest prevailing advice, women have taken morphine, practiced Lamaze, relied on ultrasound images, sampled fertility drugs, and shopped at sperm banks.

In Get Me Out, the insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys through history, fads, and fables, and to the fringe of science, where audacious researchers have gone to extreme measures to get healthy babies out of mothers. Here is an entertaining must-read ”and an enlightening celebration of human life.

Lone Wolf

By Jodi Picoult

I loved this book!!! I love most of Jodi's books... (a LONG time ago I read The Pact... Oh my goodness!!! I still think about it!!!! I read it in 1998!) This book was TOTAL family drama!!! (I love drama... in books, not so much in real life...) I found myself not being able to wait for the next page!

Would I recommend it? YES! ESP. if you have Drama in your life, or want to escape in someone else's for a while!

In the wild, when a wolf knows its time is over, when it knows it is of no more use to its pack, it may sometimes choose to slip away. Dying apart from its family, it stays proud and true to its nature. Humans aren't so lucky.
Luke Warren has spent his life researching wolves. He has written about them, studied their habits intensively, and even lived with them for extended periods of time. In many ways, Luke understands wolf dynamics better than those of his own family. His wife, Georgie, has left him, finally giving up on their lonely marriage. His son, Edward, twenty-four, fled six years ago, leaving behind a shattered relationship with his father. Edward understands that some things cannot be fixed, though memories of his domineering father still inflict pain. Then comes a frantic phone call: Luke has been gravely injured in a car accident with Edward's younger sister, Cara.
Suddenly everything changes: Edward must return home to face the father he walked out on at age eighteen. He and Cara have to decide their father's fate together. Though there's no easy answer, questions abound: What secrets have Edward and his sister kept from each other? What hidden motives inform their need to let their father die... or to try to keep him alive? What would Luke himself want? How can any family member make such a decision in the face of guilt, pain, or both? And most importantly, to what extent have they all forgotten what a wolf never forgets: that each member of a pack needs the others, and that sometimes survival means sacrifice?
Another tour de force by Picoult, Lone Wolf brilliantly describes the nature of a family: the love, protection, and strength it can offer - and the price we might have to pay for those gifts. What happens when the hope that should sustain a family is the very thing tearing it apart?

Home Front

By Kristin Hannah

This book was AMAZING! I really loved every page of it, it even almost made me cry... almost, (I am heartless...) But it was so good I really LOVED every page!!! When I picked it up to read I didn't realize that it was by the same author as Winter Garden... My fav book last year!!! Really if you have a best friend, or family you need to read this book!!!

Would I recommend it? YES!!! It is the perfect weekend read!

Now, in her most emotionally powerful story yet, she explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in love and at war.

All marriages have a breaking point. All families have wounds. All wars have a cost. . . .

Like many couples, Michael and Jolene Zarkades have to face the pressures of everyday life---children, careers, bills, chores---even as their twelve-year marriage is falling apart. Then an unexpected deployment sends Jolene deep into harm’s way and leaves defense attorney Michael at home, unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls. As a mother, it agonizes Jolene to leave her family, but as a solider she has always understood the true meaning of duty. In her letters home, she paints a rose-colored version of her life on the front lines, shielding her family from the truth. But war will change Jolene in ways that none of them could have foreseen. When tragedy strikes, Michael must face his darkest fear and fight a battle of his own---for everything that matters to his family.

At once a profoundly honest look at modern marriage and a dramatic exploration of the toll war takes on an ordinary American family,Home Frontis a story of love, loss, heroism, honor, and ultimately, hope.

Full of Life

by Nancy O'Dell

A little boring... she had a 'perfect' pregnancy, and delivery... that is BORING! As long as you are going to read about what it is all REALLY like, you mine as well laugh... so read Belly Laughs instead!!! (Her biggest problem was hiding that she was pregnant...)


While Access Hollywood host Nancy O'Dell was pregnant with her now one-year-old daughter, her girlfriends threw her a baby shower. In addition to baby clothes, diaper bags, and blankets, her friends gave her a scrapbook they'd filled with advice for what she should expect during pregnancy and childbirth, based on their own experiences. As Nancy flipped through the pages and read about what she'd already experienced (and panicked over), she thought to herself, "I wish somebody had told me that!" Even the countless books on pregnancy she'd read hadn't mentioned any of the items in the scrapbook, and, it would turn out, Nancy would experience many more things during her pregnancy that were perfectly normal but came as a shock to her as well. Luckily for future new moms, Nancy realized that every woman could benefit from this straightforward advice on pregnancy and motherhood, and decided to write a book in which she shares her own experiences of the unexpected (and often unspoken) things that happened during her pregnancy and some of her girlfriend's tips as well. Extraordinarily helpful and filled with sweet, pithy, honest, and candid tips from Nancy on everything from unusual cravings and out-of-the blue leg cramps to sudden pre-baby breast leakage and what really goes on in the delivery room, Full of Life is the perfect gift for every new mom.

Belly Laughs

By Jenny McCarthy

Loved this, I was laughing so hard I almost fell out of bed!!! (a little crude,,, but I think that is ok when you are going threw this!)

Would I recommend this? yes to any one who is, or has been pregnant!!!! BUT NOT TO any one considering being pregnant!!!

Oh, the joys of pregnancy! There's the gasiness, constipation, queasiness, and exhaustion; the forgetfulness, crankiness, and the constant worry. Of course, no woman is spared these discomforts and humiliations, but most are too polite to complain or too embarrassed to talk about them. Not Jenny McCarthy!In Belly Laughs , the actress and new mother reveals the naked truth about the tremendous mood swings, the excruciating pains, and the unseemly disfigurement that go along with pregnancy. Never shy, frequently crude, and always laugh-out-loud funny, McCarthy covers it all in the grittiest of girlfriend detail. With tips and hilarious musings on morning sickness and hormonal rage, hemorrhoids, pregnant sex, and the torture and sweet relief that is delivery, Belly Laughs is must-read comic relief for anyone who is pregnant, who has ever been pregnant, is trying to get pregnant or indeed, has ever been born!

Palace Beautiful

By Sarah DeFord Williams

This is a really cute book! It was fast and lovable.

Would I recommend it? Yes to any one who likes to keep up on their elementary reading. Or to any young girl, she would love the adventure!

When sisters Sadie and Zuzu move to Salt Lake City, they discover an old journal in a secret room in their new house. Along with their neighbor, Bella, the girls take turns reading the story of a girl named Helen who lived during the flu epidemic of 1918. They soon become wrapped up in Helen's tale, which ends with a tragedy that has a scary parallel to Sadie and Zuzu's lives. Did Helen survive the flu? Is she still alive somewhere? Or could her ghost be watching them?

Not My Type

By Melanie Jacobson

Ok, so I LOVE a lot of books!!! But I really LOVED this one... It is SO FUNNY!!! any one could relate to this book and the dating ick!!!! I fell in love with Pepper (Spicer... yep it is a whole family of spices... ~so UTAH~) she is funny and funky! She is also in a FUNK,,, and boy can I relate to that!!! Of course it has a happy ending,,, in fact I am sure that you will know the ending on the first page, (I did... and it didn't make me enjoy the book any less, it was funny!!!) And Tanner,,, well... YUM! who doesn't dream of meeting the hottest guy in the world, and then making a fool of them selves??? (you know that is how it would work out...)

Would I recommend it? YES read it today, (it will take all of 5 min, and you wont want to put it down...) and while you are at it, read The List!!!

(This is her second book the first was The List. They are not related at all, but both are really good!)

Twenty-three-year-old Pepper Spicer is not living the dream. She ended her engagement at the last minute because fiance—a musician an soon-to-be reality TV star—wanted her to sacrifice her own career ambitions for his. Now she's stuck at home sharing a room with her little sister, trying to pay off massive debt for a wedding that didn't happen, and spending Friday nights Facebook-stalking everyone who has a better life. Her therapist father urses her to choose her career dreams and count her blessings by writing weekly thank-you notes, but gratitude is a tall order when she botches an important job interview and has to settle for writing an undercover dating web-zine column—the last thing in the world she wants to do. Still, as Pepper (byline:Indie Girl) chronicles her bizarre and hilarious blind dates, she gives her father's challenge a try and slowly finds herself leaving self-pity behind. Life takes a major upswing as Pepper's column hits the big time and she tastes the exhilarating thrill of success. But there's one tiny problem: the intensely hot man she's falling for is having issues with her job (again). Will Pepper trade her personal ambition for another chance at love?

Being Sixteen

By Allyson Braithwaite Condie (aka. Ally Condie)

I LOVED LOVED LOVED this book!!! It was so personal for me!!!! (Does Ally really know me??? How did she get into my head??? and, am I still 16???)

Would I recommend it??? A yeah, to everyone!!! It is one of those books that reminds you that you are NOT alone!!! This really was an amazing book! (even if you are 16 + like me...)

The night of my sixteenth birthday, I didn’t even bother to make a wish when I blew out the candles on the cake. It was my sixteenth birthday, after all. My wishes had already come true. When you turn sixteen, you can start dating. And driving. And living. I counted the candles on my cake as the flames flickered in the summer breeze. I heard the cheers of my friends and family, and as I tasted cake and summer and the promise of good times to come, I thought, This is going to be a good year. Maybe the best year of my life. I had no idea.

Wonderland Creek

By Lynn Austin

I love Lynn Austin Books!!! The stories and characters are amazing, you really feel like you are there!!! (My fav is Candle in the Darkness).

This book did not let me down, it was really good, but it is long... (so read it if you have a whole weekend!) I loved Allie, she is so much like me! She gets lost in books... and forgets to live a real life... sounds WAY familiar...

Would I recommend it? Yes, if you have time... You will want to keep reading, so if you only have a short time... it wont work! (oh and PS, it ends the right way!!! I love that!!!)

Alice Grace Ripley lives in a dream world, her nose stuck in a book. But happily-ever-after life she's planned on suddenly falls apart when her boyfriend, Gordon, breaks up with her, accusing her of living in a world of fiction instead of the real world. Then to top it off, Alice loses her beloved job at the library because of cutbacks due to the Great Depression. Fleeing small-town gossip, Alice heads to the mountains of eastern Kentucky to deliver five boxes of donated books to the library in the tiny coal-mining village of Acorn. Dropped off by her relatives, Alice volunteers to stay for two weeks to help the librarian, Leslie McDougal. But the librarian turns out to be far different than she anticipated--not to mention the four lady librarians who travel to the remote homes to deliver the much-desired books. While Alice is trapped in Acorn against her will, she soon finds that real-life adventure and myster--and especially romance--are far better than her humble dreams could have imagined.

Crossed

By Ally Condie

Book 2 of 3 (Book 1 is Matched Book 3 will come out in November of 2012)

This book was... ok... I didn't love it like I did Matched... but that could be because I had to wait a year to read it... (I hate series... and yet I sucked into a ton of them...I am sure that by time book 3 comes out, I will have no idea what happened...) This book was REALLY REALLY fast! and really hard to put down!

Would I recommend it? yes if you are ok with sci fy... and spelunking... But I would wait till October and then read all 3 books together...

The hotly awaited second book in the dystopian Matched trilogy. In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky--taken by the Society to his certain death - only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake. Cassia's quest leads her to question much of what she holds dear, even as she finds glimmers of a different life across the border. But as Cassia nears resolve and certainty about her future with Ky, an invitation for rebellion, an unexpected betrayal, and a surprise visit from Xander - who may hold the key to the uprising and, still, to Cassia's heart--change the game once again. Nothing is as expected on the edge of Society, where crosses and double crosses make the path more twisted than ever.

The Best of Me

By Nicholas Sparks

(May I just start this by admitting that I LOVE Nicholas Sparks!!!)

I loved this book, Sparks Books for me are a HUGE escape!!! There were at times during this book that I felt like I was reading another Sparks book, but I still loved it! I am even ok with the ending... It could not have ended another way, and been ok with me!

Would I recommend it, it would be a great airplane, or beach day book... It is even a great: having troubles with a mom that I can't understand book!

"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen." In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths. Now, 25 years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew -- about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear -- was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?

If I Should Die

By Jennie Hansen

This book was Good and FAST! (My favorite combo!!!) I really was not sure who the bad guy was, and it kept me guessing on every page!!! (I love that!)

Would I recommend it? Yeah sure, if you have 3 hours and a comfy chair, then read it! Once you get about 100 pages in, you can't put it down until it is done!

One morning on a routine jog, Kallene’s running partner, Linda, confides that she’s filing for divorce. The next morning, she’s gone without a trace, leaving behind her frightened young daughter. Since Linda’s enraged husband refuses to notify the police, Kallene steps in to initiate a missing person search, not knowing it would soon become a murder investigation — or that she’d soon fall for the charming lead detective. With Linda’s handsome brother also on her mind, Kallene must navigate the rapids of a double romance as well as the deepening suspicion in her upscale Utah neighborhood. Intrigue turns to danger as Kallene faces the consequences of hasty judgments. And when startling new evidence casts Linda’s murder as the work of a determined killer, Kallene needs the intervention of unlikely heroes to avoid being the next victim.

2012!

Happy 2012!!!

So here we are, a whole new year ahead of us!!! So what is my goal for this year???? Read books I LOVE! Last year I wasted time reading books that I slugged threw, and didn't even like!!! So this year, if I don't like it... I'm NOT going to read it!!! I have a lot less time this year, a lot more projects coming up, and I need to spend more time with my family... so if I DON'T love it, I'm not going to read it!!!