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Happy Memorial Day to the bloggers in the U.S. :) And happy Monday to everyone.


Some of you may remember my reviewing 10.10.10 and The Mighty Queens of Freeville. These books were sent to me for review by MotherTalk.com. And to thank thier reviewers they give Amazon.com gift certificates! Check out their book reviews here


What did I purchase with my gift certificates? More books of course.



Beloved by Toni Morrison

After reading Toni Morrison's Sula, i've been wanting to read this one for a while. The movie version was scary, shocking and sad. I'm curious to see how the book is. And after reading ScrapGirl's great review, I knew it was about time I bought this one for myself.

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

Incantation by Alice Hoffman

Growing up in Spain around 1500 in the village where her family has lived for 500 years, Estrella, 16, knows that there are secrets in her home. As books are burned in the streets, and Jews from the nearby ghetto are murdered, she confronts the reality that she is a Marrano, part of a community of underground Jews who attend a special "church." The plot tangent involving Estrella's best friend, Catalina, jealous because Estrella has taken her boyfriend, seems too purposeful, but the historical fact is compelling, with the reason for the secrets spelled out in the horrifying persecution: Estrella is witness to her mother's burning and her brother's bones being broken by the police "one at a time." Acclaimed adult writer Hoffman, whose YA books include Aquamarine (2001), makes the history immediate in Estrella's spare, intense first-person narrative, in which tension builds as Estrella's discovers her hidden identity.

TLC Book Tours sent me a copy of:





Something Beyond Greatness: Conversations with a Man of Science & a Woman of God

In their worldwide search for extraordinary figures who fit the criteria for 'something beyond greatness,' authors Judy Rogers and Gayatri Naraine humbly discovered that the quality of greatness is not the exclusive province of those recognized publicly for their deeds. While all of us acknowledge that this noble characteristic is shared by people such as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King Jr., what Rogers and Naraine found is that this life-affirming quality very often rests in the ordinary.


We are all capable of seeing with love and acting from the heart—two essential qualities of those who accomplish the selfless deeds that transform the world for the better.

So, i've got some more great books here to add to the TBR mountain. What are you reading?