May 19-25, 2013

The Soul Of It All by Michael Bolton - Maybe I  wasn't in the mood to read an autobiography but this didn't hit the spot. I was interested to read about the many songs he's written, I hadn't realized that. And he certainly has been persistent. Also, this has the largest acknowledgement section I've ever seen. Just wasn't linear enough for me.

2 stars
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Bad Blood by Dana Stabenow - a Kate Shugak mystery. This time two towns on opposite sides of a river have a Hatfield-McCoy feud going on and of course Jim Chopin and Kate get involved. Ends in a cliffhanger.

3 stars
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Still Points North: Surviving the World's Greatest Alaskan Childhood by Leigh Newman - I really liked the way this author wrote. Her story wasn't so much about her Alaskan childhood as it was about the way her life was affected by the divorce of her parents.

4 stars
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Ten Years Later:Six People Who Face Adversity and Transformed Their Lives by Hoda Kotb - an abused single mother, a cancer survivor, a woman who has radical surgery for epilepsy, a meth addict, a 9/11 survivor and an unusual business woman talk about the decisions and how their lives are different 10 years later.

3 stars
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The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth - this is the book Call the Midwife is based on. There are two more books by the author that I hope to read. A fascinating book.

4 stars
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The Dark Horse by Craig Johnson - the 5th in the series and almost my favorite so far. Longmire goes undercover in a very small down with a lot of bad characters.
 "The AR had been The BAR at some point in its past, but poor carpentry and the ever-prevalant wind had changed its name; that, or the B had decided to move on to a better hive."

4 stars