Fourteen year old Susie Salmon is watching life on Earth from Heaven after being murdered. It was a cool concept for a novel, it's too bad the author chose to write the stupidest ending I've ever read in my life. It ruined how much I liked the book up until then. It was a really, really stupid ending.

If you've read the author's memoir, then you've read a much better version of this book. It tells a predictable story of two girls who are left on their own after their nut of a mother picks up and leaves.

Robert Langdon awakens in a hospital. In Italy. He has lost two days from his memory. Somebody tried to murder him. Langdon and a female doctor escape from the hospital when somebody tries to finish what they started with Mr. Langdon. If you've read his other books, then you know what happens. The clues are hidden in ancient artifacts and the clever Mr. Langdon saves the day.

I love Levon Helm. His ability to sing and play drums at the same time just fascinates me to no end. The Band is also in my top five favourite bands of all time (duh) so I had to read this book. I really enjoyed reading about Levon's life on the farm as a young boy. The stories about The Band early on were interesting. Overall it was an entertaining read. And there's pictures :-)  

SNOOPY COMICS!! Automatic five stars!!

Another page turner from Dan Brown has Robert Langdon in Washington, D.C., trying to find his kidnapped mentor, Peter Soloman. A severed hand with Masonic markings appears in the Capitol Rotunda has Robert Langdon scrambling to uncover Masonic secrets while trying to stay away from the CIA as well as the kidnapper. I love these novels!

Robert Langdon is in Paris when he receives a late-night phone call telling him that the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum and a cipher has been found near his body.  Langdon and French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, try to solve the riddles and clues of the cipher along with the ones hidden in the works of Da Vinci.

Angels and Demons is a suspenseful page turner about science versus religion. Dan Brown's writing was stunning. He thoroughly knew what he was talking about, came up with some brilliant ideas of his own, and let me visualize everything.  Robert Langdon is a symbologist at Harvard University. He receives an early morning fax showing the corpse of a physicist who had been branded by someone in a brotherhood that was thought to be defunct for many, many years - the Illuminati.  The Illuminati has targeted Vatican City as their ultimate revenge.  Clear your schedule and follow Robert to Geneva and through Rome in less than 24 hours.

Travis, a bad boy (tough, fighter, tattooed) meets Abby, a good girl (no swearing, no drinking) Travis is a very hot, charming womanizer who instantly becomes captivated by Abby. Abby is also instantly captivated by Travis, no matter how hard she tries not to be. He makes a deal with her and if he wins she has to live with him for a month. Same story, only different. A definite page turner for me, but I got sick of Travis's childishness, his possessive and controlling behaviour, and I got sick of Abby's games, too.

This story, divided into five sections, blends fact with fiction. A woman and her daughter really did hide fifteen Jewish people, as well as a German soldier, in their small home in Poland during the Nazi invasion.  

A story of perseverance. After 84 days of being unlucky in all his attempts to catch a fish, an old fisherman is taken out to sea by a large marlin.

Mack, a man whose daughter had been kidnapped and murdered, receives a letter in his mailbox inviting him to spend a weekend at the very shack where his world fell apart four years earlier.  It is at that very shack where Mack comes face to face with God and learns to heal.

The book goes back and forth between two stories: one about Hana and her family before and during the Holocaust, and one about a Japanese woman who received a suitcase and searched for more information about Hana and her family. I like how the stories blend. One was equally as important as the other. I like the Japanese woman's persistence and the young groups interest in the suitcase, Hana, George and the holocaust in general and their eagerness to share what they learn with others in hopes that another holocaust will never happen again. I like Hana, her family and what they had up until everything fell apart.

Aomame is a fitness instructor who is recruited by a client to carry out special assignments. A taxi driver's strange proposal to her changes her world.  Tengo is a math teacher and aspiring novelist. Re-writing a manuscript for a dyslexic teenager changes his world. Linked by a powerful event that happened twenty years ago, these two seem doomed never to be together again no matter how much they want to be.

Seven-year-old Lavinia is orphaned while onboard a ship coming from Ireland. she arrives on the steps of a Virginia tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house.  This is a really good book!

The last book in the trilogy. Thank God. A dragged out book about the same possessive, insecure, controlling, childish arsehole and the same immature, insecure, spineless, annoying dummy. They're newlyweds now, acting like children. A healthy way to start their new lives together. Some words were overused, but that's to be expected if you've read the other two books.  I'm glad it's over. The trilogy was a torture to read although I did like it overall.

Another good book by Lisa Genova. Once you start you'll want to finish it as soon as you can. Love Anthony tells the story of Olivia, whose eight-year-old autistic son has passed away. She comes to Nantucket to find some answers to questions that have been nagging at her about Anthony. "Why my son?" "Why my family?" It also tells the story of Beth, a stay-at-home mom who is recently separated from her husband after finding out about his cheating. Alone, she rekindles her passion for writing. A passion she can share with Olivia.