2017 Reading Challenge discussion

Post your challenge books about friendship here.

Book of Lost Threads by Tess Evans

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

Eragon

Jo becomes best friends with her new neighbor Anna as the two of them strive to solve the mystery of Anna's possibly haunted house.

I liked the book, although it was not the gasp-inducing-omg-this-book that I was expecting. I still can't get Gansey's motivation for his obsession with finding Glendower and I couldn't care much about him. Yes, he's a good character, but Ronam and Adam are much more interesting than he is. Adam is my precious baby and I need to see what happens to him in the next book.

For this category I read Exile for Dreamers by Kathleen Baldwin. This was kind of a stretch but the books in the Stranje House series do touch on the camaraderie between the girls at Stranje House and the friendship that forms between groups of people similarly branded by both the public and their own families. Fair warning, this was Book 2 in a series.

I read Cottonwood Whispers by Jennifer Erin Valent. "… You read a good book or somethin’. And make sure it’s a book about people who ain’t got no troubles.” Valent, Jennifer Erin. Cottonwood Whispers (p. 203). Tyndale House Publishers. Kindle Edition. Excellent advice. Another tale of Gemma and Jessilyn, still getting into trouble beyond their years. Another great read about interracial friendship in the 1930s south by Ms. Valent. Highly recommended.