On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

This picture is from the Arabian Gulf, no such water front exists in England during December. Abu Dhabi stays warm year round and bare foot on the beach in December is normal.
On Chesil Beach in England there are many stones. Much like the stones in life that wear you down. Ian McEwan weaves a tale of a couple charting their life course on the beach by what they leave unsaid. Another fairy tale that does not have a happy ending. Week four and only 48 more books to go, how are you reading?

Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult

Families are always good for a story. Jodi Picoult has chosen to set her new book within family crisis, just like a soap. This time she deals with families in Boston, Chicago, and rural South Carolina. Paige tries to connect the dots of her separated family and discover you cannot go back , but you can go on. Absolution is delivered in the final chapter, a real page turner.
Week three, how are you reading?

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

This five foot gingerbread house was located in a hotel in Abu Dhabi and no children were near. There were a great many Christmas and winter displays in the United Arab Emirates, the western influence.

The book this week is "The True Story of Hansel and Gretel" by Louise Murphy. The story is set in a Poland forest during the last year of World War II. The work is fiction, but the author did her home work and all the essential ingredients of the familiar children's tale are included, leaving a trail, the house in the woods, Magda, the oven, the skinny children. The story tells how an entire population went up in smoke. The story engages you to the very last page, eat it up!

Two down fifty to go, keep reading. Next week, Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult.

52 Books / 52 weeks

The challenge is again proposed, Director of Limestone Township Library is prepared to read one book each week for the entire year of 2009. Are you game? The title for the first week is The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks. Sparks has again chosen a love triangle keeping you in suspense to the epilogue.