Book Your Ticket

April reads?  It's been an interesting month!

• Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteeth Century France, Maurice Samuels (history, culture, literature)*
• Spouse Trap, Cynthia Hamilton (detective, thriller)
• Sweet Water, Christina Baker Kline (fiction, cozy)
• The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef, Marco Pierre White with James Steen (autobiography, food, history)*
• A Good and Useful Hurt, Aric Davis (paranormal, thriller, tattoos)*
• Billionaire's Apprentice, Chase Carroway (thriller, romance)
• Aloha Also Means Goodbye, Jessica Rosenberg (romance)
• Doppelgänger, Chuck Driskell (WWII, espionage, thriller)*
• Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies, J.B. West with Mary Lynn Kotz(autobiography, history)*
• The Stuff that Never Happened, Maddie Dawson (fiction, chick lit)
• Finding Sarah, Terry Odell (detective, thriller)
• Taking Flight, Adrian R. Magnus (fiction, aging)*
• Beneath the Patchwork Moon, Alison Kent (chick lit, romance)
• Someone's Daughter: In Search of Justice for Jane Doe, Silvia Pettem (true crime)*
• Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's; John Elder Robison (autobiography, autism)*
• Raising Cubby:  A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives, John Elder Robison (autobiography, autism)*
• Nursing a Grudge: A Maternal Instincts Mystery, Diana Orgain (mystery)
• Opposites Attack: A Novel with Recipes Provencal, Jo Maeder (chick lit, culture, food)
• Louisiana Bigshot, Julie Smith (mystery, humor)
• Crazy Love, Michelle Pace (chick lit, romance)
• Blue-Ribbon Jalapeño Society Jubilee, Carolyn Brown (cozy, humor)
• The Man in the Window, Jon Cohen and Nancy Pearl (fiction, disabilities)*
• Hearts in Motion, Edie Ramer (romance, animals)
• Deadly Stillwater, Roger Stelljes (thriller)
• How to Survive Your Sisters, Ellie Campbell (chick lit, family)
• The Guestbook, Holly Martin (romance, humor)
• The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion, Fannie Flagg (fiction, history, WWII, humor)*
• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson (screwball fiction, culture, Sweden)*
• The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs, Nick Trout (fiction, animals)
• An Unlikely Witch, Debora Geary (fantasy fiction, romance, cozy)
• Burning Girls, Veronica Schanoes (fanasy fiction, culture, history)*
• Room 702: 1 Year, 1 Room, Many Stories, Ann Benjamin (fiction, cozy)*
• Back on Blossom Street, Debbie Macomber (fiction, chick lit, cozy)

There's some pretty awesome stuff in there, actually.  Especially the ones with the "*".

What A Trip!

I'm not big on seeing a movie after I've already seen the book, BUT...



I'm SO seeing Life of Pi.  If the trailer is any indication, it will be as magical as the book itself.  I don't know if anyone other than Ang Lee could have really done this story justice.