What did you read this year?

This is my journey in books for 2003!
Coni’s
average rating for
2003
3.0
liked it
3.0
A teen girl gets put into foster care after her mother goes to prison for murdering her boyfriend.
I was drawn in immediately with how the book began with learning about Astrid’s mother, the murder and then the first foster home she experiences. They aren’t all good experiences, but it kept me reading. After moving around a bit more, the book spends a good amount of time with one family where good things start to happen for her. I found this part ...more
I was drawn in immediately with how the book began with learning about Astrid’s mother, the murder and then the first foster home she experiences. They aren’t all good experiences, but it kept me reading. After moving around a bit more, the book spends a good amount of time with one family where good things start to happen for her. I found this part ...more
Five women’s lives become interconnected in a hotel somewhere in England. One of the women just happens to be a ghost of a woman who died in the hotel’s dumb waiter. It is written in a stream-of-consciousness style that takes some getting used to, but if you can get past that, you can enjoy it since it is just like you would think if you wrote down your own thoughts.
The book starts off great. The first chapter was the ghost of the woman who had j ...more
The book starts off great. The first chapter was the ghost of the woman who had j ...more