Monthly Archives: October 2017

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on October 30, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged historical fiction on October 27, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

If you are stopping by to find questions for your book club, please leave a note for me telling me where you are from! Welcome to the online book club for The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin. I thought I was reading a fiction book until I got to […]

Online Book Club: The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by ...
This entry was posted in Online Book Club Reading and tagged Online Book Club on October 25, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

“Economics … is a science of recognizing secondary consequences. It is also a science of seeing general consequences.” In 1946, Henry Hazlitt wrote a book that will be used for decades upon decades – Economics in One Lesson. Simplifying economics into one lesson made a book that is easy to […]

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on October 23, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

“Mom always said that you can’t regret the things you’ve done because regret is like poison. If the decision felt right at the time, then just move on.” Cammie is down to one good friend – her mom. She can’t figure out what she did wrong – she pulled some […]

Solo Disaster by Victoria Kimble
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Religious Young Adult Fiction on October 20, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

“I had to admit, making people laugh was a lot more fun than sitting quietly at my desk.” Alex makes people laugh – often intentionally, but sometimes not. He is always the smallest kid on his Little League baseball team, but when faced with a year of being in the […]

Skinnybones by Barbara Park
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Young Adult Fiction on October 16, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

“There was something the war couldn’t take from me either. The Nazis couldn’t stop the wind and the snow. The Russians couldn’t take the sun or the stars.” Nearly 9,000 souls were lost at the bottom of the sea when the Wilhelm Gustloff sank. It had carried 10,000. The ship […]

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Young Adult Fiction on October 13, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore After visiting the Trinity site in New Mexico, I’ve been fascinated by the stories behind the people who work to create the first nuclear bomb. Many didn’t even know what they were working on, but only knew their one small part. The Radium Girls is […]

Online Book Club November Announcement (The Radium Girls by Kate ...
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on October 11, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

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[sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “Looking back now, I can see that all of this was God, gently, gradually, separating me unto Himself, preparing me for the life to which he had called me, and which I so wanted.” Miracles do still happen. Rita Klaus experienced one by just asking. She grew […]

Rita’s Story by Rita Klaus
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Biographical Non-Fiction on October 9, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

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“The letter could sit on a shelf, along with Isadore’s number, collecting dust, becoming less meaningful to me as the months and years went by … But my belief in fate was strong, one that I couldn’t shrug off with apprehension.” In Among the Branded, little does Stephanie know that […]

Among the Branded by Linda Smolkin
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction on October 6, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

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