Read May 2012

The Good Earth         
author:  Pearl Buck                         
finished:  May 12  
9    REALLY LIKED

Back in the 1800’s (?) china; poor man gets wife; she is needed to do cooking, cleaning and child bearing. Story about their life together. Shockingly, I really liked it!!

Dust and Decay         

author:  jonathan maberry              

finished:  May  12

Young Adult    

9 Really Liked

2^nd in series...about the kids that go out to the rot and ruin; what happends to them; what happened to the world; what disease happened. I like it!

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe  

author:  gayle tzemach lemmon  
N/F         
finished:  may  12            
8 LIKED

It wasn’t written in the greatest style. Sometimes I felt like I was reading a long (sort of) boring newpaper article instead of a book. I liked the information, though.

The Brave                 

author:  Nicholas Evans                  

finished:  May  12    

REALLY LIKED!!

An 8 year old boy, raised in London, is being sent off to boarding school that in Latin is called the brave. He is scared; he wets the bed; he did get terribly teased and sometimes beaten for punishment. Later it is discovered that his sister is his mother! The book is written in the style of starting from the end of his life now, then back to the beginning, then each moving toward the other. I really liked it. Very full story.