Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
Claude and Camille by Stephanie Cowell
Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt
Faithful by Janet Fox
Hugh and Bess by Susan Higginbotham
Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland
Signora da Vinci by Robin Maxwell
The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff
The Kingmaking by Helen Hollick
The King's Fool by Margaret Campbell Barnes
The Traitor's Wife by Susan Higginbotham
The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Historical Fiction
Friday, May 26, 2006
Fiction (Popular, Literary, Classics)
A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Bad Twin by Gary Troup
Benny and Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti
Boneman's Daughters by Ted Dekker
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamise
Eternal on the Water by Joseph Monninger
Etta by Gerald Kolpan
Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff
Hunger by Elise Blackwell
If You Follow Me by Malena Waltrous
In Hovering Flight by Joyce Hinnefeld
Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughan
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Life After Genius by M. Ann Jacoby
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
Now You See Him by Eli Gottlieb
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen
Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same by Mattox Roesch
The Almost Archer Sisters by Lisa Gabriel
The Castaways by Elin Hildebrand
The Disappeared by Kim Echlin
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Islands of Divine Music by John Addiego
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
The Misadventures of Oliver Booth: Life in the Lap of Luxury by David Desmond
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Ruins by Scott Smith
The Secret Keeper by Paul Harris
The Swimming Pool by Holly LeCraw
The Turnaround by George Pelacanos
The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
Willing Spirits by Phyllis Schieber
Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom
Young Adult
20 Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
After the Moment by Garret Freymann Weyr
Anatomy of a Boyfriend by Daria Snadowsky
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
Candor by Pam Bachorz
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Feathered by Laura Kasischke
Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have by Allen Zadoff
Fragile Eternity by Melissa Marr
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Hearts at Stake: The Drake Chronicles by Alyxandra Harvey
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson
Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
Liar by Justine Larbalestier
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
No Such Thing as the Real World: Stories about Growing Up and Getting a Life by Various Authors
Nothing but Ghosts by Beth Kephart
Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr
Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr
Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before by David Yoo
The Awakening by L.J. Smith
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
The Heart is Not a Size by Beth Kephart
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Life of Glass by Jillian Cantor
The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Undercover by Beth Kephart
Romance
A Black Tie Affair by Sherrill Bodine
A Christmas Wedding by Tracy Wolff
Blue Diablo by Ann Aguirre
Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
Fire Me by Libby Malin
One Deadly Sin by Annie Solomon
Simon the Coldheart by Georgette Heyer
The Lady Flees Her Lord by Michele Ann Young
The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
Memoirs
A Friend Like Henry by Nuala Gardner
Either You're in or You're in the Way by Logan and Noah Miller
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White
Once an Arafat Man by Tass Saada and Dean Merril
The Alchemy of Loss by Abigail Carter
The Midwife by Jennifer Worth
The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose
Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home by Kim Sunee
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Christian Fiction Book Reviews
Amish Fiction
Hidden by Shelly Shepard Gray
Biblical Fiction
Havah: The Story of Eve by Tosca Lee
Chick Lit
Age Before Beauty by Virginia Smith
Faking Grace by Tamara Leigh
Get Cozy, Josey by Susan May Warren
Only Uni by Camy Tang
Sincerely Mayla by Virginia Smith
Sweet Caroline by Rachel Hauck
That's (Not Exactly) Amore by Tracey Bateman
Truffles by the Sea by Julie Carobini
General Fiction (Literary, Women's, Southern)
According to Their Deeds by Paul Robertson
Embrace Me by Lisa Samson
Fireflies in December by Jennifer Erin Valent
Home Another Way by Christa Parrish
Leave it to Chance by Sherri Sand
My Sister Dilly by Maureen Lang
Rain Song by Alice J. Wisler
Ruby Among Us by Tina Ann Forkner
Sisterchicks Go Brit! by Robin Jones Gunn
Skizzer by AJ Kiesling
Tender Grace by Jackina Stark
The Last Mango in Texas by Roy Blackston
The Making of Isaac Hunt by Linda Leigh Hargrove
The Passion of Mary Margaret by Lisa Samson
The Perfect Life by Robin Lee Hatcher
The Shape of Mercy by Susan Meissner
The Someday List by Stacy Hawkins Adams
Trouble the Water by Nicole Seitz
Thriller/Mystery/Suspense/Horror
Betrayed by J.M. Windle
By Reason of Insanity by Randy Singer
Dark Pursuit by Brandilyn Collins
Death of a Six-Foot Teddy Bear by Sharon Dunn
Fatal Deduction by Gayle Roper
Ghostwriter by Travis Thrasher
Isolation by Travis Thrasher
Kiss by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy
My Soul to Keep by Melanie Wells
Salty Like Blood by Harry Kraus, M.D.
Scream by Mike Dellosso
The Hunted by Mike Dellosso
The Minor Protection Act by
The Real Enemy by Kathy Herman
Ulterior Motives by Mark Andrew Olsen
When Zeffie Got a Clue by Peggy Darty
Romantic Suspense
Against All Odds by Irene Hannon
Breach of Trust by DiAnn Mills
Finding Stefanie by Susan May Warren
Nothing But Trouble by Susan May Warren
Perfect Target by Stephanie Newton
Wiser Than Serpents by Susan May Warren
Romance
A Passion Denied by Julie Lessman
A Passion Most Pure by Julie Lessman
A Passion Redeemed by Julie Lessman
A Soldier's Family by Cheryl Wyatt
For Pete's Sake by Linda Windsor
Love Finds You in Humble, Texas by Anita Higman
Love Starts with Elle by Rachel Hauck
Holiday
Engaging Father Christmas by Robin Jones Gunn
One Holy Night by J.M. Hochstetler
Young Adult and Middle Grade
Finding Hollywood Nobody by Lisa Samson
Hollywood Nobody by Lisa Samson
It's Not About Me by Michelle Sutton
Just Another Girl by Melody Carlson
Miracle Girls by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson
Ruby Unscripted by Cindy Martinusen-Coloma
Runaway by Dandi Daley Mackall
So Not Happening by Jenny B. Jones
Historical Fiction
A Constant Heart by Siri Mitchell
In the Shadow of Lions by Ginger Garrett
The Desires of Her Heart by Lyn Cote
The Red Siren by M.L. Tyndall
Twice Loved by Lori Copeland
Washington's Lady by Nancy Moser
My Projects
Book Blogger Appreciation Week--In the fall of 2008, this week to celebrate book bloggers launched! It's an annual online festival for book bloggers. The dates for 2011 are September 12-16.
LOST Books Challenge--A challenge for LOST fans to read books featured on my favorite show. Kind of dead, but archives still up.
Buy One Book and Read It--A challenge started in 2008 when I heard over 50% of adults had not read a book in a single year. I added the buy a book part in an effort to support the publishing industry and authors, in 2009.
Faith and Fiction Saturday--an occasional Saturday essay on issues related to faith and how it's portrayed in fiction.
Faith and Fiction Saturday Round Tables--a group of bloggers that discuss books that deal with issues of faith.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Good News
For those of you who were in the know about the program I work at being in danger, it is officially out of danger for the next six months.
This is good news. I believe this program benefits the employees greatly, and obviously I like my job. But overall, this is the most financially responsible decision the company could make. So this is good news.
Index
While this is not a complete index, browsing these posts will give you a good idea of what you an expect to find on My Friend Amy.
About Me
My Projects
Book Reviews
Bookish Discussions
Author Interviews
Author Guest Posts
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
24 Finale
The biggest shock of the 24 finale was that Chloe had an ex-husband....and what a character he is!
Other than that, I was pretty pleased with it, except for the radical way in which they somehow managed to kidnap Jack, beat him up, and get him on a ship bound for China in ten minutes.....
Sick, Again
I have come to the conclusion that I have no immune system. I am sick for the third time in six weeks.
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
My Friend Mindy
My friend Mindy is getting married Saturday. And I would be there, but the plane tickets were around 600 dollars. I'm discovering it's expensive to fly across the country.
But I wish I could be there. Because Mindy is a good friend...we go way back. All the way back to registration at Toccoa Falls College when she looked over and saw my Missouri driver's license.
"It's so good to see a Missouri driver's license," she sighed. (she's from Kansas and we both found ourselves in hickville-but-to-die-for-beautiful northeast Georgia) Then we discovered that we had dorm rooms across the "hall" from each other. We were the midwest girls, surrounded by crazy southerners, new englanders, and even, gasp, an Aussie. We became fast friends that year, shared lots of laughs, and stayed friends. Yes, we stayed friends through Mindy leaving TFC for a year, through rooming together for a year and a half, through a blow-out of sorts amongst our group of friends...through it all. Not the best of friends. My last two years of college saw me not responding to some loving confrontation about behaviors that were completely destructive to myself. But she accepted my refusal to see the truth and stayed my friend. And after I graduated from college, we were still friends. And we stayed friends when I moved to Japan and she worked at Eagle Ranch. We stayed friends even when the emails were few and far between. And recently this year, we've been in much better contact due to jobs that give us lots of free time. I've completely enjoyed getting to know her again. And now she's getting married.
And I couldn't be happier for her.
So Mindy...this is a tribute to you. Matt was lucky to find you, beautiful, honest, and God-loving. A friend. I hope you two have a wonderful God-serving life together, and that every moment is cherished as a gift. Even last minute stressing out over wedding plans moments.
Cheers! (I'm raising my champagne glass to you!)
Sunday, May 14, 2006
A Week Without Food
The day after my birthday, I came down with something. I think. Anyway, for the past week, I have not been able to eat. Seriously. I'll spare you the gruesome details, but food has not been at all appealing to me and every time I tried to eat something it did not turn out well. I've been feeling so low that I've neglected everything in my life and now today will try to frantically catch up on a bunch of life's little duties. Like paying bills.
Anyway, during this week, I noticed that our society is completely food obsessed. I think I just never bothered to pay attention before but as I was on my deathbed completely ill and watching tv, food was constantly shoved into my face. And most of it didn't look very good at all.
I think I feel better today, but I've thought that every day this week. I survived eating crackers yesterday and will move on to more yummy foods today. But don't worry, it won't be much.
Friday, May 5, 2006
Sad state of affairs
Hello,
This is just me checking in to say the a/c adapter for my laptop blew, so I am currently without computer in my place of residence. Since the bulk of my posts are written late at night during bursts of inspiration and revised during the day, it may be awhile before I post something intelligent (or not so intelligent!!) again, as I wait for the new one to come in the mail.
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