Challenge: 50 Books discussion

1.
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
2.The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
3.To Kill a Mockingbird
4.Somebody Else's Daughter
5.The Pilot's Wife
6.Handle with Care
7.Salem Falls
8.A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption

9.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

10.The Girl Who Played with Fire

11.Autobiography of a Face

I hope that this is how your supposed to post these. Love this 50 book challenge!

12.The Tunnels

13.Those Who Save Us

14.The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

15.Long Lost

16.Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

17.The Deep End of the Ocean

18.Dead Until Dark

19.Living Dead in Dallas

20.By the Time You Read This

21.Look Again

22.Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss & Love

23.The Bean Trees

24.The Dogs of Babel

25.Lost in the Forest

26.Club Dead

27.The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

28.Pigs in Heaven

29.The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

This was such a sad, crazy book about Nikki's addiction. On the positive side he is now in recorvery and giving back all he can to those he can.

30.The Help

I really loved this book! I fell in love wth the characters and didn't want this book to end. I beleive we have come a long way in how we treat people who are different. Having said that I do know we still have a long way to go. We really do all deserve to be treated with the same love and respect no matter what color or gender we are. Oh and did I say I really loved this book ! :)

31.The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

I enjoyed this book. It's about Rachel who is an 11yr old 1/2 danish, 1/2 black girl. The story begins with a tragic "accident" her mother takes her and her brother and baby sister up to the roof of their apartment building and they "fall" off she survives and goes to live with her grandmother. It's the story of Rachel coming to terms of who she is white,black,both and how she comes to terms with what happened to her. I love how the author draws you in and how important all the characters become and tie together Rachel's story.
flag

32.Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris

The Sookie Stackhouse series is just plain fun to read!

33. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

34. The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes byDiane Chamberlain

35. The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

36. But Inside I'm Screaming by Elizabeth Flock

37. A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham

38. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

39. Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo

40. Range of Motion: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg

41.The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine

42. Left Neglected by Lisa Genova

43. Precious by Sapphire

44. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. This is the 4th book I've read by Ms. Kingsolver and once again I was not disappointed. A beautiful story of nature,love and how we all relate and need each other. Each character has their own story to tell and yet in the end they are all connected to each other. Looking forward to reading more of Kingsover's work.

45. Flight by Sherman Alexie

46. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. Wouldn't even know how to descibe this book or for that matter any of Chuck's books. Crazy stuff, twisted,sick,confusing etc. Somewhat like being on a messed up but beautful acid trip and yes I do know what that is like :). You just have to read Chuck,no really you HAVE to! One of those authors you either love or hate and yes I've said it before I LOVE CHUCK!!

47. A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs

48. Half Broke Horses: A True-Life by NovelJeannette Walls

49. Man's Search for Meaning byViktor Emil Frankl

50. Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean