Little Bee by chris Cleave

Little Bee was one quick humming read. I picked it up at the airport on my flight home from Hilton Head and was half way through it before we even landed!! It is a great book...I could not put it down because I could identify with both of the characters who are from completely different backgrounds. I do have to say though that I was disappointed in the ending. Endings are critical, but I would still recommend it for sure!! I love the character of Little Bee and it makes you think about illegal refugees from her point of view. These people who get caught up in the larger politics that have nothing to do with them personally. Check it out!!

Once Upon A Day

This was a really good read. The can't put down until you're done type. It's about this girl and boy who are abducted by their father and taken to live in a "sanctuary" in New Mexico. Until they are in their 20's -- they never see anyone or leave the house. They are told their mother is dead, and one day the boy, Jimmy, leaves. He writes to his sister Dorothea and tells her all the things they have missed -- but then his letters stop. Then the father gets ill and Dorothea decides she must find her brother and bring him home. She only has the last address on an envelope, and she gets on a bus and heads there.

The way the story is written is great -- interweaving everyone's points of view, going from past to present ... EXCELLENT READ!

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An Echo in The Bone

Hallie left this for me when she left last fall, and I kept staring at it, wondering when there would be a time I would have to devote to such a tome. Ahhh, the beach in Hilton Head Island! Excellent.

I started it there shortly after finishing Shutter Island on my kindle. First off, this is a heavy book with very small print. I missed my kindle immediately. I mourned it. I even considered, when this book would leave deep grooves in my legs, to download it to my kindle. As it turns out, when I was leaving I searched high and low for my kindle cord. Which was at home. So thankfully I DID bring this book. Because I just finished it yesterday, and I've been home for nearly a week!

It definitely kept me amused, but it was seriously about 3/4's of nothing going on but them living in various army camps and Claire keeping people alive as best as she could without any supplies, and then they would run away and then they were on a ship to go to Scotland but that was pirated and so on. Oh, and of course Jamie and Claire having sex. Sassenach sex as I call it!

THEN, the last 50 pages are just ridiculous. It goes from long, drawn out chapters of Rollo the dog sniffing around to eight different things happening at once in short chapters and then it ends in a triple cliff hanger. I WAS DISGUSTED!

For as you know, it takes the woman YEARS to write these books, and she is busy running around the country promoting this one! Geesh.

If you are a Gabaldon fan, then of course you have to read book 7 because there is going to be a book 8.

But next time it goes on my kindle!

Shutter Island

So even though I usually hate to use the book covers that were pretty much made for the movie while I was reading this book I could only see Leo as the main guy so it's kind of fitting for this situation. Anyway the book was a really easy read but also very enjoyable. I read it in probably two days but it definetly managed to suck me in. The writing is very simple and yet good and I felt for the characters soooo much! SO much so that the ending made me very sad and was completely unexpected! I had absolutely no expectations for what the book was but wow, caught me off gaurd. I had to actually put the book down and think about it cause I was so horrified. BUT that's all I will say becuase it would really give the story away to tell it.