Another Year, Another Resolution

Happy New Year Everyone.......
i had a hard time finding this blog and remembering my password to get in to it at all but finally made it. I realize the last time I wrote was in April so hopefully this year I'll get way past that...I vow to try again and read my book per week to get to my yearly goal. I actually think that I got pretty close last year, just didn't tell you all about it so this time around you will get the facts. Another thing that will help is that my wonderful hubby got me a new laptop for Christmas so I don't have any reason not to tell you about the multitudes of books I've read.

Speaking of books, even though it's the first day of 2010 I finished a book today that I loved and wanted to tell you about. It's called "The Piano Teacher" by Janice Y.K. Lee. It takes place in Hong Kong when the Japanese invaded there during World War II. It has such interesting characters and parts of it are hard to read and that such atrocities could happen but it's a great book.

The book I just started is something I'm reading for one of the book clubs I belong to and is called "No More Tears Left Behind"by Arthur and Ursula Rathburn. I'm not that far into it but is about a couple who is Jewish and living "underground" in Berlin during WWII. ( I seem to be reading a lot of war books lately) I'm not that far into it and the writing style is a little different than what I usually go for but I respect this person and how brave she and her husband were during this horrific time in history. They managed to get out alive and to the US and now live in Madison, WI. I will keep you posted as I get more into the book. On deck is the book I need to read for my other book group and it is called "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout. I have heard great things about this book and am excited to start it as soon as I finish the one I'm reading now.

I hope everyone has a great start to a new decade and is looking forward to the coming year. Read as much as you can!
Barb