[3] Love warps the mind more than a little. In every woman’s past is a tale of a love gone wrong. These tales usually make for great conversation over brunch with the gals. “What were you thinking?!” “He was never good enough for you!” “Good thing you got out of that one alive!” For readers who want to avoid all the ooey-gooey-I-love-you-tooey sentimentality of the holiday of hearts, try one of these heart-shakers.
[5] After reading The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls’ best-selling memoir of her dysfunctional, impoverished childhood, you can’t help but have certain expectations of her latest book, Half-Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel [6]. You want to know why her mother, Rose Mary Walls, turned out to be such a neglectful, bereft parent [7]. You want to know why in the world Rose Mary would marry such a ne`er do well. Walls, however, holds these questions at bay with an almost unbelievable story of her grandmother, Lily Casey, told in first-person.
[9] If God is good and loving, why does He allow so much suffering? Why does God let our loved ones die but allows others to live and prosper? Why does He remain silent and leave our most urgent prayers unanswered? These are the faith-testing questions posed in Lynn Austin’s latest historical-fiction novel, While We’re Far Apart.
[11] Americans across the nation frequently profess their love for their country with football, hot dogs, fireworks, and country music. But the U.S. is a country known for its wide-open spaces and all-of-a-kind populace. There’s always been more to love about our home than the Super Bowl, Chevrolet, and Route 66.
[13] For her Winter Reading video book review, Megan Garrett, librarian at the Sugar Creek Branch, talks about a future where children are no longer born and society is collapsing. That's the story behind P.D. James' harrowing but hopeful dystopian novel, The Children of Men.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC+Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/wicked-love-four-stories-valentines-gone-wrong
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/12262#comment-form
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-half-broke-horses
[6] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22jeannette+walls%22+title:%22half-broke+horses%22
[7] http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/7139443/ns/today-books/
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-half-broke-horses#comments
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/inspirational-book-review-while-were-far-apart
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/12079#comment-form
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-review-1000-things-love-about-america
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/12077#comment-form
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/new-winter-reading-video-librarian-megan-garrett-reviews-children-men
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/12072#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=42
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=39
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=40
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=41
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=44
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=45
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=46
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=47
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=50
