MARCH 2013

Four seniors at Princeton are hot on the trail of a 500 year old manuscript that the narrator's father was obsessed with.

There is a secret to that manuscript that is apparently important enough that this becomes life-threatening for the four college students. This book keeps you turning the pages, wanting to follow the clues as they unfold and enfold the lives of the characters.

If you like books in the vein of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, you will absolutely love this!

DECEMBER 2012

Mary Neal was kayaking in Chile when she drowned, being held underwater for 18 minutes. Yet her kayaking companions were able to resuscitate her and she apparently suffered no brain damage. Her experiences during this 18 minutes, and during other crises in her life, are clearly and calmly delineated. With the miraculous nature of several events in Dr. Neal's life, it appears that this orthapaedic surgeon has been blessed with a deep spiritual faith that enhances her medical abilities. It is difficult to read her account and not be moved to believe in God and heaven.

JULY 2012

This Michigan author has me waiting impatiently for her next book! This one really grabbed me, with its characters and plot.

Marissa has always played second fiddle to her best friend, Julia, who seems to demand the spotlight. When Julia has a traumatic brain injury, it turns things a bit upside down, and changes the dynamics of their relationship. In the process, Marissa learns some things about herself and those around her that she really had needed to learn a long time ago. Marissa is human and flawed, but very lovable and compelling.

MAY 2012

I love this author! This is the second book she wrote, and her fourth book is coming out in June.

In each of her books, she uses first person narrative, with several characters' perspectives explored. So, you get to see a particular event in the story from several characters' point of view.

Here, Cami, Anna and Amy were best friends in high school, but now they are in their late twenties and each is struggling with how she expected life to be and how it is actually turning out. Also, Maeve, Anna's mom, has her own problems - a small store she owns that is barely scraping by and a husband who has been "missing" for many years.

Kristina Riggle knows how to make you care about each character as if she were your best friend!

FEBRUARY 2012

I loved this book! It is humorous, insightful, full of detailed and vivid explanations and some great stories to entertain and enlighten. The title sounds goofy, but when you start into the book, you will quickly see how accurate it is. Men are like waffles, because they prefer to deal with one thing at a time (one waffle square at a time) and like to keep things fairly simple and straightforward. Women are like spaghetti, because they have all their ideas and emotions all tangled together and touching each other (like spaghetti noodles on a plate), and they are natural multi-taskers. Yes, this is a simplified version of their explanation, but it's so true!!!