Book Title: Codex
Author: Lev Grossman
Genre: Fiction, Mystery
My Grade: C+
# of Pages: 348
Week Read: #41 (10/8 - 10/15/10)

Summary: Edward Wozny, a hotshot young banker, is about to leave for vacation when he is sent to help an important client. His task: search the family library for a precious, centuries-old codex that may not even exist ( Read more... )

Book Title: The Secret of Lost Things
Author: Sheridan Hay
Genre: Fiction
My Grade: D
# of Pages: 349
Week Read: Week #39 (9/24 - 10/1/10)

Summary: Eighteen years old and completely alone, Rosemary arrives in New York from Tasmania with little other than her love of books and an eagerness to explore the city. Taking a job at a vast, chaotic ( Read more... )

Book Title: Soul
Author: Tobsha Learner
Genre: Fiction
My Grade: D+
# of Pages: 425
Week Read: Week #35 & #36 (8/27 - 9/10/10)

Summary: In nineteenth-century Britain, young Lavinia Huntington's older husband appreciates her lively intellect and seems eager to extend his wife's education from his study to their bedroom. Lavinia absorbs all he ( Read more... )

Book Title: The 19th Wife
Author: David Ebershoff
Genre: Historical Fiction
My Grade: B
# of Pages: 514
Week Read: Week #34 (8/20 - 8/27/10)

Summary: It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade ( Read more... )

Book Title: Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Author: Vanora Bennett
Genre: Historical Fiction
My Grade: B+
# of Pages: 417
Week Read: Week #32 & #33 (8/6 - 8/20/10)

Summary: In the year 1527, the great portraitist Hans Holbein, fleeing the Protestant Reformation, comes to England under commission to Sir Thomas More. Over the course of the next six ( Read more... )

Book Title: A Reliable Wife
Author: Robert Goolrick
Genre: Fiction
My Grade: C+
# of Pages: 291
Week Read: Week #31 (7/30 - 8/6/10)

Summary: He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for a "reliable wife." She responded, saying that she was "a simple, honest woman." She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple ( Read more... )

Book Title: A God Who Hates
Author: Wafa Sultan
Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir
My Grade: B+
# of Pages: 244
Week Read: Week #30 (7/23 - 7/30/10)

Summary: On February 21, 2006, the Syrian-born and raised Wafa Sultan gave one of the most provocative interviews ever by a Muslim woman on the Al Jazeera network. In the middle of the interview she told ( Read more... )

Book Title: The Forgotten Garden
Author: Kate Morton
Genre: Fiction
My Grade: B
# of Pages: 549
Week Read: Week #29 (7/16 - 7/23/10)

Summary: A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book - a beautiful volume of fairy ( Read more... )

Book Title: The Little Stranger
Author: Sarah Waters
Genre: Fiction, Horror
My Grade: A-
# of Pages: 510
Week Read: Week #28 (7/9 - 7/16/10)

Summary: One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds ( Read more... )

Book Title: Blink
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Genre: Non-Fiction
My Grade: B
# of Pages: 276
Week Read: Week #28 (7/9 - 7/16/10)

Summary: In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. In Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within ( Read more... )