Await Your Reply: Part One

Hi, readers,

Thanks so much for all your summer reading suggestions! I think I have enough titles to keep me busy for the remainder of the year. I was happy to see that several of you are checking out books that I just have thoroughly enjoyed (Sarah's Key, The Passage, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Bridge of Sighs, and the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson). But on to our current read...

Right off the bat, we certainly realize that things are not right in each of the...