I found a few songs I liked.

This album is brilliant. It has been a long time since I have been able to enjoy every song on a CD. They have beautiful voices!

I liked this book very much…I was kind of let down at the ending though. It just kind of fizzled out.

Fifteen years ago, on the day the three Winters sisters packed their most precious belongings in their mother’s Oldsmobile and planned to run away from home just as soon as school was out, 5-year-old Ellie disappeared. The family never recovered: their abusive father drank himself to death; their unstable mother retreated deeper into her depression; and once-close sisters Caroline and Madeline grew far apart. Now, armed with a grainy People magazine photo of a young woman who might be a 20-year-old version of her beloved youngest sister, Caroline heads out for Montana on a quest to bring her back home. What Caroline, burdened by years of guilt, doubt, and regret, discovers along the way has as much to do with finding herself as it does with tracking down Ellie. Ward’s smart, sharp second novel is a read-in-one-sitting treat, a delightfully satisfying blend of hip humor and poignant longing, and an unsentimental yet inspiring testimony to the power of hope over reason and love over loss. Carol Haggas

In this funny, razor-edged memoir, Mary Karr, a prize-winning poet and critic, looks back at her upbringing in a swampy East Texas refinery town with a volatile, defiantly loving family. She recalls her painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip into psychosis; a fist-swinging father who spun tales with his cronies—dubbed the Liars’ Club; and a neighborhood rape when she was eight. An inheritance was squandered, endless bottles emptied, and guns leveled at the deserving and undeserving. With a raw authenticity stripped of self-pity and a poet’s eye for the lyrical detail, Karr shows us a “terrific family of liars and drunks … redeemed by a slow unearthing of truth.”—This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German occupation years ago. But the past and present are inextricably entwined, particularly in a scrapbook of recipes and memories that Framboise has inherited from her mother. And soon Framboise will realize that the journal also contains the key to the tragedy that indelibly marked that summer of her ninth year. . . . (From Amazon)

This book was very good. Joanne Harris has a beautiful way of writing and creating a story.

This story follows four characters who are joining together for a symposium on Mary Swann, a would be poet who was brutally murdered by her husband. Her life comes to an end on the very day she takes her poems to a publisher. This was the only insight left into who Mary Swann was. Each character invents there own Mary Swann from the poems she has created. In reality no one was very close to her.

As the novel progresses a mystery cloaks the story as a thief is systematically stealing every copy of her book.

“This novel delightfully satirizes academia and the literary world, wryly exploring the notion of textual criticism.”

It was very interesting to see how each character had there own assupmtions as to who Mary Swann was based on just a few poems she had written. Carol Shields had an amazing gift. I would definitely read anything she has written.