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Books by my bedside:
Death of a Bore (Beaton)
I Still Have It (Rudner)
Poems (Dickinson)
Recently read:
The Only Ones 40 children are the only people left on earth after "the Day".
The Quickening two Iowa women's tough farm lives in 1912-40 (Hoover)
Heaven Is For Real 4 yr old's glimpse into Heaven (Burpo)
*A Stolen Life girl kidnapped for 18 years (Dugard)
**Alex and Me a parrot and reseacher and animal intelligence
(Pepperburg)
Winter's Awakening family/love story in Amish territory (Gray)
Sarah's Key French "survivor" of German prison camps (de Rosnay)
In a Perfect World a calmly chilling tale of possible future events (Kasischke)
Drew Brees: Coming Back Stronger faithfilled quarterback who overcame injuries and uncertainty to lead Saints to Super Bowl victory in 2010 (Brees)
Go Saints!
The Secret Life of Bees (Kidd)
All the Winters That Have Been (Maxwell)
Going to read soon:
All Pets Go To Heaven (Browne)
Minding Frankie (Binchy)
My takes:
*A Stolen Life, by kidnap victim/survivor Jaycee Dugard. Quite an intense book and an amazing story of the resilience of this young woman who survived 18 years with her captors, after being taken and hidden and abused by them when she was 11 years old. I also scanned a companion book called Lost and Found, written from the angle of the investigators and reporters who covered her case.
**Alex and Me , by Irene Pepperberg. Irene is an animal intelligence researcher whose life and work revolved around an African Grey Parrot named Alex. Their bond of science and "friendship" spanned 30 years, and turned the current research on it head, as she and Alex showed that parrots do not have just a "bird brain" but can actually learn, communicate, and understand many things never before thought possible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYk-wE18BTo
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