# 47 -- ROOM

I can't even begin to tell you about this book. It is amazing, horrible, hopeful, terrible...there are so many emotions that you run through when you read it.

Emma Donoghue has written an amazing story.

I'll leave it up to you to pick up and read, but the faint of heart should choose something else.

Reviewed Children's Books

These five books are in a stack of titles I've gotten to review for my new library. I wanted to add some new children's books to the collection and picked these from our district's review library. Now I will get to add them to my library.

Testing the Ice is a true story of Jackie Robinson after he has retired from baseball. It has wonderful illustrations and is a sweet story.

Basketball Belles is the story of one of the earliest girl's basketball teams from Stanford. Written very simplistically for young readers, it's still has good information and nice illustrations.

How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You? is another in a series of the "How do dinosaurs..." books. I love the drawings and the storylines. Each one is cute and fun to read.

A Sick Day for Amos McGee is a sweet story of a zoo keeper and how he visits his animals each day. When he stays home sick one day, the animals come to visit him.

And finally, Pirate vs. Pirate is the story of the two "best/worst" pirates in the world and their competition to out-do each other in their quest to be number one!

I love picture books and can't wait to get these in my library! (You can click on the pictures to go to Amazon and read about each book.)

# 45 & # 46 -- Survivor in Death and Visions in Death

The last two books I've finished recently have been more in the J.D. Robb "in Death" series. Survivor in Death is actually the first of her books I ever picked up. There was an audio copy in our local library, I was getting ready to take a road trip somewhere, and decided to try it out. I immediately fell in love with the characters and wanted to listen to everything Robb has written. The good thing about her stories....there are so many of them, I can re-listen after awhile because I can't remember "who done it."

Visions in Death is a little different. I thought I'd read all the books before beginning again, but realized that this in another one I had missed. This is the one where Dallas shares her past with Peabody. I'd always wondered when and how that happened because in the earlier books you know Peabody is in the dark as far as Dallas' history is concerned and then in the later books she know and references what happened. It was nice to finally fill in that part of the story.

As with all the J.D. Robb books, I love them!

# 44 -- Glimpse

I've read a couple books by Carol Lynch Williams and love her work. She does a great job of sharing the emotions and depth of her characters and pulls the reader in almost from the very first page.

Glimpse is a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat, novel in verse that takes you into the lives of two sisters and their relationship. It's their love for each other that makes them survivors against the circumstances of their existence.

After I finished the book, my co-worker picked it up and was reading it at her desk. Before I knew it, she was well into the pages, looked up at me and said, "I don't think I like where this is going, but I can't put it down. I have to finish it."

This one is really good, but be prepared to for the ride in the beginning...you won't be getting off until the story is done!