The Midnight Library, book #30

 

Finally our first book for the FHS Faculty Book Club!  I was a little nervous about reading it, since Katie read it this summer and wasn't all that thrilled about it.  But since the deal with this book club is that I expand my reading horizons, I jumped in.

It was a little odd, but it reminded a bit of one of my favorite show a while ago, Quantum Leap.  I did find the book interesting; it made me wonder if all the times I wish I had of done things differently when I was younger ~ would the result really be better?    Worth reading if you like taking a walk down an odd road ....

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?  Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. (picture and description from Amazon)

Next up is one of my favorite author's new book ~ I can't wait to dig in!

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend

O:)

Melissa

A Wing and A Prayer (The Cousins O'Connor Book 1), book #29

 

Just finished the September book for our Christian Fiction Reading Challenge!  It took a good while to get into it, but once I did it was really good.  It seemed like it took me a while to read it (on my Paperwhite), then when I finished I saw it had 568 pages!  No wonder it took so long!

A street orphan abused and abandoned by an alcoholic father at age five, Gabriella (Gabe) O’Connor has never let a man stand in her way yet. So when a handsome flight officer thwarts her plans to become a WASP— Women Air Force Service Pilot — she’s determined to join the war effort anyway she can. Her chance comes when she “borrows” foreign correspondent credentials from the Boston Herald—where her father is the editor—to stow away on a medical ship to the front.  Lieutenant Alex Kincaid pegs Gabe O’Connor as trouble the moment she steps foot on Avenger Field as a WASP cadet. As the eldest brother of a boy whose jaw Gabe broke in grade school, Alex is familiar with her reputation as both a charismatic ringleader and a headstrong hooligan who’s challenged every male and nun from grade school to college. As her WASP flight instructor, Alex eventually expels Gabe when she pulls a dangerous stunt. But when he is an evacuation pilot in France eight months later, their lives intertwine once again, exposing them to a danger as perilous as the German tanks roaming the Reichswald Forest: a love that neither expects. (picture and desciption at Amazon) 

Our Faculty Book Club is starting back, so my next book is one for that .... 😊

Never quit reading ...

O:)

Melissa

Theo of Golden, book #28

 

I jumped on the Theo of Golden bandwagon and started reading it a while ago.  I have no words. Just go read the book. It is precious, contemplative, and made me wish I had secret millions to help all the people.  

Just go read it ....

One spring morning, a stranger named Theo arrives in the small Southern city of Golden. He doesn’t explain much about where he came from or why he’s there—but when he visits the local coffeehouse, where pencil portraits of the people of Golden hang on the walls, he begins purchasing them, one at a time, and giving each portrait to the person depicted. In exchange, he asks only for the person’s story. And so portrait by portrait, person by person, secrets are revealed, regrets are shared, and ordinary lives are profoundly altered.  A story of giving and receiving, of seeing and being seen, Theo of Golden is an unforgettable novel about the power of generosity, the importance of connection, and the quiet miracles that happen when we choose kindness and wonder. (description at Amazon)

I'm serious, go read it.  You can even borrow my copy.

Taking a short break from reading to finish up a cross - stitch project and to let me soul just sit in the wonderousness of Theo ...

O:)

Melissa