My Reading Blog

A day to remember all of those men and women who have served and fought to defend this great nation to keep us free.  I give thanks to those in our family who served - my Dad, my husband, my son, my brother.  We all need to give thanks to all veterans each day - not just one day a year. Ten years ago today, Jon proposed to Michelle.  We are so thankful to have him in our family. Ten years ago, Max was born - Happy Birthday to Max!  We have had him for 9 wonderful years and he has been a great addition to our family. We have many blessings and these are only a few.

Book Cover:  "  Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build.  At fifty years old, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children.  When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life - and her relationship with her family and the world - forever. At once beautiful and terrifying, Still Alice is a moving and vivid depiction of life with early-onset Alzheimer's disease." I have read about people who have Alzheimer's, but usually it happens at a much later age and towards the end of their lives.  But this book is about a relatively young woman - only 50 - who starts having problems remembering words or names for objects, and probably the most scary time was when she was running and had no idea where she was or how to get home.  And then over a matter of a few months, it gets worse.  Her students n...

Book Cover:  "Success is fleeting, nobody knows this better than lawyer Amanda Jaffe.  She had been the undisputed rising star of Portland's legal community, but in a cruel twist of irony, the same case that put her on the map - the Cardoni trial, which pitted Amanda against a brilliant sociopath (Wild Justice) - had left her traumatized, doubting her instincts, and shunning the limelight. This reticence ends when Amanda agrees to handle the case no on else will touch.  Jon Dupre, who runs an upscale call-girl service, is accused of murdering a U.S. senator.  Dupre claims to possess proof of the existence of a secret society of powerful men who have banded together for a commonly held political agenda.  The rite of passage that binds them together - the initiation into this powerful brotherhood - is murder. To Amanda these seem the desperate claims of a man who will lie to save his own skin - until she is pressured to walk away from the case.  Determine...