January Book Giveaway

Free, Free, Free

During the month of January the Hobart Library will be giving away free books from our book sale room. To receive a free book you must submit a book review to be published on this (Book Nook) blog. If you would like to participate pick up a book review form at the circulation desk. One entry per person.

Six Word Memoirs edited by Smith Magazine

Can you sum up your life in six words? If you can go to www.smithmag.net and submit your six word memoir. Mine is Read, Love, Laugh, Eat good food.

In I Can't Keep My Own Secrets teens wrote their six word memoirs. Some are funny and some are heartbreaking but all are real.

First Love was Worth Every Tear by Anna K.

A Purring Cat Makes Everything Better by Callista W.

Family Night is Secretly My Favorite by Lindsey D.

Six Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak is about first loves and painful breakups.

First College Sweethearts now Happily Married by Jason Pintor

We Belly Laugh Every Single Day by Michelle Ottey

My personal favorite is: My Apartment is Much Cleaner Now by Daniel J. Stasiewski

I Fell in Love Twice Today by Vanessa Aricco.

Love has Healed My Many Wounds by Inara de Luna

These two books are fun to read. Check them out!!

Moonlight by Rachel Hawthorne

Reading Level: Young Adult

(5 out of 5)









I have to say that I loved, loved, loved this book. I loved this book so much that when I found out the library didn't own the second and third one in the trilogy I went and bought them and read both of them the same night. That's why I don't buy books normally. I read to fast and I don't feel like I get my money's worth because I usually don't read a book again, unless I really like it, so maybe I will read it again.

I actually have read several of Rachel Hawthorne's books and didn't even know it because she writes under the name of Lorraine Heath as well. I really enjoy her writing. Her characters stay with you. I'm still waiting for her to write a book about Rawley Cooper. Maybe one day she will.

Moonlight is about Kayla. Kayla is a nature lover and for the summer she is working as a Sherpa in the National Forest. There she meets Lucas and she is drawn to him. What she doesn't know is that Lucas is a werewolf and she is his soul mate. As they explore their feelings the werewolves, though they like to be called shape shifters are being hunted by humans. This is a fun read and Ms. Hawthorne has a unique spin on werewolves. I highly recommend it to paranormal romance readers.

The Hollow by Jessica Verday

Reading Level: Young Adult
(3 out of 5)







Lately I seem to be reading books that keep my attention but when I finish them I just want to hurl them across the room. I'm really not a violent person and I do not want to harm books in any way, but I'm feeling less than satisfied.

I liked the concept of the story being rooted into the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. That was very cool. But I feel like this book was a very long beginning. 513 pages long which don't get me wrong I love long books but I'm not sure how I feel about this book. Abbey's best friend Kristen dies. The book starts out with her funeral even though the body isn't found until later in the book. You never really find out if her death was an accident, suicide, or murder. You just know that she drowned in the river. Abbey uncovers two diaries that Kristen had been keeping. The black one is normal every day stuff and the red one tells of how she met a boy with the first initial D. Kristen never tells Abbey about D, so Abbey feels betrayed. Abbey has a love interest but from the beginning you start to wonder if something isn't right. Later on you find out that something isn't right. Then you find out some stuff and the book ends.

If you visit the authors website http://www.jessicaverday.com/ you find out that this is a trilogy. The next one titled The Haunted will be out next September and the third untitled book will come out September of 2011. I will read the rest of the trilogy when it comes out because I feel like I'm missing something and I want to know what comes next.

Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan

Reading Level: 10 and Up

Set in North Carolina, Surviving the Applewhites, is a comedy about Jake Semple, a juvenile delinquent, who is sent to be home schooled at the Applewhite's family creative academy. All of the Applewhites are artists. Randolph Applewhite, the head of the family, is a sculptor and theater director. His wife Sybil is a famous novelist who writes best-selling mysteries. she has a guru named Govindaswami who visits and cooks Indian food for them. Aunt Lucille is a poet. Daughter Cordelia is a dancer. There are various other family members with different talents. E.D. who is around Jake's age is studying butterflies. She eventually learns that her talents are suited to being a production manager. The goal of the Applewhite family is to turn Jake around to as they say, "find the good kid under the exterior". Lucille tells him that he is a radiant light being and not to let anyone tell him differently. He said his social worker would just sigh and shake her head at him a lot and that she never would have referred to him as a radiant light being. Eventually his time with the Applewhites does turn Jake around. As the family works on the musical, The Sound of Music, Jake surprisingly finds out that he is getting noticed as both a singer and an actor with talent.

Written by Karin Olsen.

What the Moon Saw by Larua Resau

Reading Level: 10 and Up

What the Moon Saw focuses upon a fourteen-year-old girl named Clara Luna which in Spanish means Clear Moon. Clara lives in a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland with her mother, father, and brother. Her father is Mexican, having illegally immigrated from Mexico and started a landscaping business. All of the houses look the same. The yards look the same. She is looking for something else, something more real, but she doesn't know what it is. She also wants to learn who she is. One day, a letter arrives from her grandparents, inviting her to spend the summer in Mexico with them. They live in a poor village in southern Mexico called Yucuyoo. Clare accepts their invitation and finds that she truly loves them and life there. She discovers that her grandmother, Helena, is a healer and learns eventually that she too is a healer. This is her true calling. Laura Resau tells the story, using soft, poetic language. She alternates back and forth between Clara and Helena. This is a beautifully written book which has won many awards.

Written by Karin Olsen.

Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

Reading Level: Adult

(3 out of 5)

John Tyree is home on leave when he meets Savannah Lynn Curtis. Savannah's in North Carolina for the summer building homes for Habitat for Humanity. When John and Savannah meet the attraction is mutual and they spend the next couple of weeks together and fall in love. Can their love survive being so many miles from each other? When 9/11 happens John re-enlists and that changes the course of their lives.

I don't read to many Nicholas Sparks books because they are usually sad. Someone usually dies. While I think Mr. Sparks is a great story teller I like to read books with happier endings. I ended up reading this book because when I went to see New Moon one of the previews was for a movie called Dear John based on Nicholas Sparks book. The movie looks good. It stars Channing Tatum, which is a total cutie, and Amanda Seyfried. I'll go see it to see how closely they followed the book. I'm hoping they didn't follow to closely because I wouldn't mind a different ending.