Megan’s Comments (group member since Jun 23, 2013)

Megan’s comments from the Reading Buddy Style group.

What is the worst book you've ever read and why? Did you expect to enjoy it?

Just finished listening to this. It was a cute story and I can see how this would be a popular ya series. I enjoyed the weaving of Greek gods and myths in the story and the creation of a modern day myth. It is definitely a quick, light, fun read but I did not think it was on par with other ya fantasy series like Harry Potter and Hunger Games, which really pulled me into the author's world. Then again, maybe I am just old....I would definitely recommend this book for a young audience.

Welcome Julia! I think you will enjoy this group, many other members share your tastes. Feel free to share your aunt's recommendations with the group!

Kate chose this as my August read. This book was loaned and recommended to me by my sister and I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I'm looking forward to some good laughs!

I loved this book! Even though it takes place in a very depressing era, it is really a very uplifting, heartfelt, feel-good book. You can't help falling in love with the characters. I chose this for Kate's read for August. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Me too! http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/...

Kate will be reading and I will be reading .

Partners will be randomly assigned. Each partner will chose a book from their partner's to-read shelf (or any other shelf you choose, such as "owned", "ebooks", etc.,) to read for the month.

If you wish to participate for September, please comment below. Partners will be announced before the end of the month.

Please add nominations for a September group read.

Books can be any genre, you may nominate as many books as you wish, or second (or third, etc) any nominations.

Please check the group's bookshelf to make sure you are not nominating a book that has been a previous group read.

I read this a few months ago. It is definitely one those books that makes you think and stays with you long afterwards. I don't want to put any spoilers in here until after everyone else has read this and we can discuss it further, but I will warn you not to bring this one along if you will be around others unless you enjoy public crying!

We had two nominations for the same book so there will be no poll this month.

After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.

Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.

M. L. Stedman’s mesmerizing, beautifully written novel seduces us into accommodating Isabel’s decision to keep this “gift from God.” And we are swept into a story about extraordinarily compelling characters seeking to find their North Star in a world where there is no right answer, where justice for one person is another’s tragic loss.

The Light Between Oceans is exquisite and unforgettable, a deeply moving novel.

I just finished. I really did enjoy it even though there were several things going against it for me: it was very long, had a slow moving story line that involved very detailed descriptions of Civil War battles and politics, the main characters were cold, lying, racist, and immoral. This makes it all sound bad, I know, but it really was a good, interesting story and a worthwhile read! 4 stars.

Welcome Alejandra! We're so happy to have you in our book club. Congratulations on your degree! I was the same way when I was in college, there were always so much reading required that I never got a chance to read for pleasure. I hope you find some good books!

hurray! I love Kate Morton!

The new novel from the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Distant Hours is a spellbinding mix of mystery, thievery, murder, and enduring love.

During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy.

Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress, living in London. She returns to the family farm for Dorothy’s ninetieth birthday and finds herself overwhelmed by questions she has not thought about for decades. From pre-WWII England through the Blitz, to the fifties and beyond, discover the secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds—Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy—who meet by chance in wartime London and whose lives are forever entwined.

The Secret Keeper explores longings and dreams, the lengths people go to fulfill them, and the consequences they can have. It is a story of lovers, friends, dreamers, and schemers told—in Morton’s signature style—against a backdrop of events that changed the world.

Welcome Kate! It sounds like you have the same problem with an overflowing to read bookshelf as me! Hopefully our group can be a fun way to help you decide what to read next. Although sometimes my to read list gets longer when I see shelves and to read books.

Hi Jackie! Welcome to our group!

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Garden Spells
by Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author)
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 · rating details · 35,609 ratings · 5,450 reviews
The women of the Waverley family -- whether they like it or not -- are heirs to an unusual legacy, one that grows in a fenced plot behind their Queen Anne home on Pendland Street in Bascom, North Carolina. There, an apple tree bearing fruit of magical properties looms over a garden filled with herbs and edible flowers that possess the power to affect in curious ways anyone who eats them.


For nearly a decade, 34-year-old Claire Waverley, at peace with her family inheritance, has lived in the house alone, embracing the spirit of the grandmother who raised her, ruing her mother's unfortunate destiny and seemingly unconcerned about the fate of her rebellious sister, Sydney, who freed herself long ago from their small town's constraints. Using her grandmother's mystical culinary traditions, Claire has built a successful catering business -- and a carefully controlled, utterly predictable life -- upon the family's peculiar gift for making life-altering delicacies: lilac jelly to engender humility, for instance, or rose geranium wine to call up fond memories. Garden Spells reveals what happens when Sydney returns to Bascom with her young daughter, turning Claire's routine existence upside down. With Sydney's homecoming, the magic that the quiet caterer has measured into recipes to shape the thoughts and moods of others begins to influence Claire's own emotions in terrifying and delightful ways.

Hi all, I'm Meg. I'm originally from the great state of New Jersey (northwest-the pretty part) and now living in Indiana with my fiance, Cayle, my German shepherd, Kaiya, my blind cat, Helen, and an ever growing amount of rabbits (we raise them).
I am a pet groomer and consultant bat biologist.

My favorite genres are historical fiction, young adult, cookbooks, and nature/science, but I like to read many different books.