"The Storyteller" by Jodi Picoult

The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult is so good! Wow, oh wow, where to start? It is about an old man who was a German S.S. guard at a Nazi war camp. Now he wants a favor from a woman, one she is not sure she can do. There are several good story lines in this book. You get the Nazi guard story, a fantastic story from the young girl’s Jewish grandmother who was in the death camp, and the story that she was writing, which is sort of what the book is based on. I just loved it! As usual for Jodi Picoult’s books, the ending is shocking!
(Gerard's review, 5++ stars)

Have you read this one? What did you think of it? If you reviewed this too, feel free to share your link to your review in the comments. Happy Reading!

"The Tutor's Daughter" by Julie Klassen

The Tutor's Daughter by Julie Klassen is a clean historical romance that held my interest all through with the mysterious events that happen to Emma, the tutor's daughter while staying at the cliff-top manor where her father tutors two teen boys. This book is very interesting because of the family secrets, interesting characters and the family dynamics involved. Emma knew the older two Weston boys, Philip and Henry, from when they attended her father's boarding school. Their father invited Mr. Smallwood to live at his manor and privately tutor his two younger sons, Julian and Rowan, when the academy's last student left.

I liked this book very much because although it is a romance novel, there is a lot of mystery in it as well and it doesn't have any sex scenes at all. It's a very enjoyable read and a couple times while reading I actually said, "oh no!" right out loud! This is also one that when reading on the bus, I almost missed my stop. I looked up just in time. I highly recommend this one for a book club because it has interesting discussion questions in the back covering topics such as life choices, homeschooling, special needs kids, history of shipwrecks and the characters in the book. I liked this one much better than the first book I read by Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse.
(Karen's review)

Have you read this one? What did you think of it? If you reviewed this too, feel free to share your link to your review in the comments. Happy Reading!

Linking up with Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop, responding to the prompt to share a book review.

Tuesday Teasers: 3 This Week

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should  Be Reading. Anyone can play along, so I thought  I  would play for fun! Just do the following

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page (well, we cheat and choose specific ones)
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on  that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away!   You don’t  want  to  ruin the  book for others!)
• Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can  add the book to their TBR  Lists  if they  like your teaser.   

Gerard's

Josef lets out a breath he has been holding. "So it is not a no," he says cautiously. "This is good."

From page 54 of The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult.

The black-masked figure raised his Taser again. Calmly inserted a fresh cartridge. Took aim. Fired.
My fifteen-year-old daughter started to scream.

From page 19 of Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner. (My review will be up tomorrow.)

Karen's

Heart pounding, Emma gingerly leaned forward and peered around the corner. She held her candle at waist level, too nervous to lift it high, uncertain what she might find.

From page 116 of The Tutor's Daughter by Julie Klassen. (historical romance--my review will be posted Thursday.)

Happy Reading!

Silly Sunday

We have so many books this week that I was barely able to get a cat into the picture. After several outtakes, this header picture is actually the best with the cat. At least only one book is covered and one partially covered. Can you see enough to guess the titles?

The one in the top row on all the way to the left is Did You Miss Me by Karen Rose which Gerard already read and Karen plans to read this week, and the one Manny Boy is covering up is The Road Out--A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America by Deborah Hicks:

"Mighty Inspiration--Love Letters From God" by Barbara Bernard Miller (Giveaway)

Mighty Inspiration--Love Letters From God by Barbara Bernard Miller is a unique book in that she shares things that God has “given” her to write during her journey of faith. It is written in first person from God’s point of view. It is a challenge to believers to use their gifts to work together to change the world. It is a short, quick read but would be a good devotional book, reading just a chapter a day and meditating on that. It is thought provoking and challenging; however, I couldn’t help but notice the lack of scripture.

I encourage you to visit Barbara’s blog: Mighty Inspiration and if you would like to have this book and live in the United States, be the first to leave a comment letting us know you want it with an email address so we can contact you.

Have you read this one? What did you think of it? If you reviewed this too, feel free to share your link to your review in the comments. Happy Reading!