I checked out Soon I will be Invincible by Austin Grossman from the local library and had a fun, light read!

This fictional book is about super heroes and super villians, narrated by a criminal mastermind/evil genius, and also by an up-and-coming half human - half cyborg heroine.

The story kept me interested, because it explores the internal thoughts and observations of people with powers...the ups and downs of living day to day with such enhancements. It's not your typical Superman story, in my opinion.

It was a funny, fantasy novel with a clever ending. Who would you expect to save the world?

I read all types of books, both fiction and non, classics and new. This book stuck out as entertaining to me, because it was pretty off the wall.

I've decided to write a list instead of reviews. I sat down, fully intending to choose only one title to write about but it really came down to picking a puppy out of the pound. All the titles started bounding against the cage, barking gleefully, their brown eyes begging to be taken home. Much the same here...

So this week in lists, which I ADORE, by the way (I'm a bit OCD) are the following:

Califia's Daughters by Leigh Richards: In this engaging read, the worlds population of men has been decimated. Amazonian women, clustered in tribes scattered throughout the lands, guard their men and their land and struggle to get by. Their struggle for life and repopulation becomes even more difficult when news of a fierce leader named "Queen Bess" reaches their tiny village. No spoilers here, but if you enjoy a bit of a 'historical' novel peppered with 'what-if's' and action, you'll love this book. I know I did.

Embrace Me by Lisa Samson: A heartfelt novel about fallible humans and their

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I have just read the most amazing books! They are: Dear John, and Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas.
Dear John is about a couple who meet in the summer, fall in love, but when he has to go back to Germany becaus he's in the army their relationship is tried. It is a heartbreaking love story that any girl would love.
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas is about a man (matt) who falls in love with Katie but he has a huge secret that she couldn't have seen coming. A few years after they break up she finds out why he broke up with her and she is devastated that he of all people could do such a thing. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you will love it! (p.s. it has a happy ending!) i dont have pics but Dear JOhn is by Nicholas Sparks, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas is by James Patterson.

With the recent passing of Patrick Swayze, his images from his movies have been gracing the web with a list of his accomplishments. Before Dirty Dancing, Swayze had a role in Francis Ford Coppola's movie The Outsiders.

The story of Ponyboy Curtis and his two brothers, Darry and Sodapop, The Outsiders, is still relevant to a new generation of readers. While this isn't a new book, it may be a great re-read from a new perspective. As adults we can still relate to Ponyboy and his gang of Greases as they navigate through their teens, facing challenges that are still part of society today; fitting in, friendship, and the ever present social classes.

A quick read with emotionally charged scenes, this classic story by S.E. Hinton is timeless.

I got the book The Divorce Party in the mail, a gift from a friend to help me celebrate my own divorce party. I'd heard of divorce-abrations before I threw mine, but I'd never been to one. And I'd read many books about divorce, but never a novel that I could personally connect to or characters I cared about very much. There just wasn't much out there, and so I pulled out my tiara and made my own way -- and invitations.

I'd been caught in the limbo of "getting divorced" for a year-and-a-half. In that time, I'd moved twice, changed jobs, begun dating, lost weight, started doing yoga, and changed my hair at least three times. All of that was going on at the same time my whole identity was shifting -- from wife to ex-wife, from married to single, from co-parent to single mother.

I was also in and out of court, enmeshed in horrible arguments and text wars, negotiating the most trivial things to be placed in a legal file to determine the guidelines of my finances, parenting, insurance,

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The Fixer Upper

Author: Mary Kay Andrews

It seems that everywhere you turn there's a story or television show about political corruption. Unfortunately for Dempsey Killebrew, she's caught right in the middle of a bribery scandal. When her boss Alex Hodder fires her and then implicates her in the scandal, Dempsey is left broke and unemployed. At her father's suggestion, she moves to Guthrie, GA to rehab a house that he just inherited.

The Fixer Upper takes it's readers through the rehab of a neglected old home (Birdsong). Dempsey sees right through the overgrown, pink exterior and years of neglect. With the help of her new friends in Guthrie and some good old fashioned hard work, the reader gets to see this glorious house come back to life.

During her time in Guthrie, Dempsey has to deal with the FBI, a family "squatter" that won't leave Birdsong and a handsome young lawyer who falls madly in love with her. Written with humor, the characters in this novel are all quite endearing, Read More »from "The Fixer Upper" by: Mary Kay Andrews

The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people's hands, nothing more we say now that could not be said in the endless array of movements possible with the fine bones of the fingers and wrists. The gestures were complex and subtle, involving a delicacy of motion that has since been lost completely.

During the Age of Silence, people communicated more, not less. Basic survival demanded that the hands were almost never still, and so it was only during sleep (and sometimes not even then) that people were not saying something or other. No distinction was made between the gestures of language and the gestures of life. The labor of building a house, say, or preparing a meal was no less an expression than making the sign for I love you or I feel serious....

Naturally, there were misunderstandings. There were times when a finger might have been lifted to scratch a nose, and if casual contact was made with one's lover just

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With a horrible title like this, it's a wonder that anyone would ever read this book. When my English teacher friends told me that this was their summer reading selection, I almost didn't read it. Call me narrow-minded, but the title just sounded absurd. Not absurd funny, but just absurd in an annoying sort of way.

I caved into peer pressure and I decided to get the book through the library; I mean I wasn't going to spend money on something that might be a complete waste of time. The back of the book didn't do much for it either. From it, I deduced that the book took place during WW II (yawn) and it was a collection of letters (whatever).

But… then I started reading the thing and I got hooked. The protagonist, Juliet Ashton, is a single journalist looking for a story and maybe someone to share her life with, but don't assume she's typical - she's not. When she receives a letter from the island of Guernsey, an island that was occupied by the Germans during the War, she begins

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