Fresh Air by Charlotte Vale-Allen

 

This was a nice summer read for our group. And I might add, a fun book--not disturbing, enjoyable, light.

The book summary: A New York Times Bestselling Author Lucinda Hunter has been alone in the Connecticut farmhouse that was once her mother's. Her life has become a small thing. One July morning as she sits near the window, something in the garden catches her eye: a little girl in shorts and a t-shirt, her bare feet in outsize sneakers. Taken with the girl's sweet nature and generosity of spirit, Lucinda gradually finds herself drawn back into the world.

Fresh Air was not exactly an in depth discussion, but it was a nice book.

~This post was originally on Thursday Night Book Group Blog from Butler Public Library's website.  From September 2008.

The Storyteller's Secret

I am enjoying this book so much.  Amisha marries Deepka, the man she was promised to, they have three boys.  Amisha wants to write her stories in English, but doesn't know how to write English.  She finds a teacher, Stephen who helps her learn English in exchange for Amisha teaching at the school where he works.  They fall in love.  Amisha's story is Jaya's mother's story.  Jaya recently suffered a miscarriage, her third and goes to India to spend time away from her husband, Patrick.  Patrick and Jaya are considering separating.  This is a step in that direction, but Jaya stays with Ravi her grandmother's friend and servant and finds out about her grandmother's life, as well as her mother's.

Love and Other Consolation Prizes

I just read Jamie Ford's most recent book, Love and Other Consolation Prizes for my book group and I absolutely adored it.  Bringing together the world's fair along with the immigration of Asians in the early 1900's, this book has history, love and so much more.  Ernest Young, the book's protagonist is a young boy when we meet him.  He has just come to American by boat and has a decent life with Mrs. Irving.  Things change for him when Mrs. Irving brings him to the AYP (Alaskan-Yukon-Pacific) World's Fair to be sold to the highest bidder.  And you thought slavery only happened to African Americans--not true.