Sarah Anne Carter

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Yearly Archives: 2018

The Blue Bottle Club — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] For July, the Online Book Club will read and discuss The Blue Bottle Club by Penelope J. Stokes. I have not read this book or any by this author. It looks like a good summer read about four teenage girls and their dreams and how they do […]

July Online Book Club book announcement (The Blue Bottle Club ...

This entry was posted in Online Book Club Reading and tagged Online Book Club on June 13, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

Once We Were Brothers — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “The doors of decision are one-way only. You can never go back. I’ll never be the same person again.” Ben Solomon, a survivor of the Nazi invasion of Poland, is watching TV one day in his older years and sees a face he could never forget. The […]

Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged historical fiction on June 11, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

Art of Fully Living — “From my experience, pursuing goals from a place of inner peace yields better results.” Unsatisfaction and unhappiness can be tolerated or it can be a catalyst for change. Tal Gur felt unrest in his life and dared to think if this was really how he wanted to live his life. […]

The Art of Fully Living by Tal Gur

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Inspirational Non-Fiction on June 8, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

Bookshelf — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] I chose some very interesting books from my bookshelf in May for a total of 11 books read. I’m up to more than 50 books this year so far. In May, I read some inspirational books, very good fiction and interesting political commentary. Here’s what I read: […]

Sarah Anne’s Bookshelf – May 2018

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged bookshelf on June 6, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

Daring Greatly — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “In other words, if we want our children to love and accept who they are, our job is to love and accept who we are.” We can listen to the voices in our head that tell us we are no good, or we can live bravely. In […]

Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Inspirational Non-Fiction on June 4, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

Every Note Played — “Every note played is a life and a death.” Most of us won’t get the time to reflect upon our lives and make amends before we die. Some people do and Richard is one of them. A renowned concert pianist, he first notices signs of his disease when his right […]

Every Note Played by Lisa Genova

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction on June 1, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

Once We Were Brothers — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup]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 Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson. Ben Solomon, a survivor of the Nazi invasion of Poland, is watching […]

Online Book Club: Once Were Were Brothers by Ronald H. ...

This entry was posted in Online Book Club Reading and tagged Online Book Club on May 30, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

Best Intentions — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “Motherhood was like an end-of-semester project. There was always one more thing I should be doing.” Marti Trailor is not feeling fulfilled in her role as a doctor’s wife and mother to three school-aged children. Her husband is working longer and longer hours and seems detached from […]

Best Intentions by Erika Raskin

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction on May 28, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

The Johnstown Flood — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “The enormous sympathy aroused by the newspaper accounts, the pictures, the songs and poems, brought on the greatest outpouring of popular charity the country had ever seen.” On May 31, 1889, water poured over and broke through a dam releasing water that would damage a countryside and […]

The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged history Non-Fiction on May 25, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

Murder on Orient Express — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “A ridiculous-looking little man. The sort of little man one could never take seriously.” Hercule Poirot has just finished helping solve a problem for a friend in an Eastern European army and has boarded a train to start heading home. A cry is heard, a man is […]

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction mystery on May 21, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter