Moonraker's Bride

Last night we had bookclub about the book Moonraker's Bride by Madeleine Brent. This was a FABULOUS book!!! Every single person loved this book and are interested in reading other books by this author. The writing is very smooth and full of adventure and romance and twists and turns that you don't expect. It ends well with all of the loose ends tied up and leaves you thirsting for more. It has a great story line and even some history.
It's set in the 1800's when the Victorian Era is at it's peak. It's about a young girl whose parents went to China to help with one of the Missions out there. They both die and leave their baby girl Lucy in the care of the Mission Mother who is from England. Well, Lucy ends up having to help run the mission because the Mother gets ill and eventually dies. It tells of the hardships and trials she has being poor in China and trying to take care of all the children. Being a "foreign devil" and a female to boot do not help the situation. She has a wonderful attitude that surprisingly is not far fetched. My favorite line and moral in the entire book is "Just do what comes next." There is a mysterious treasure that some families in England are trying to find and they enlist the help of Lucy to find it. It's about a young girl who grows up one way in a very male dominating culture and then gets thrown back into her English roots where Women are respected. She marries and is widowed all in one night and then marries again. You will not be left disappointed. The author takes so many twists and turns you are probably more likely to get a little motion sickness than be bored! This book is filled with adventure, romance, culture, a little bit of mystery and even some humor.
This book is out of print but some of the libraries do have it. A few of our readers have even found it on e-bay and amazon.com. If you get a chance to read it do it! I promise you will love it.
November's Book is Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell. We will be having our meeting a week early due to Thanksgiving. We will be meeting on the 19th at Cara's house 8pm. Hope to see you there or leave a comment on the blog.

October Book Club

For those of you who are interested we are reading "Moon Raker's Bride" by Madeleine Brent for this month's book. It is out of print and hard to find so let me know if you would like to read it and I will help you get a copy of it. For those who are in the actual book club we will be meeting at Erin's house Wed. Oct. 29 @ 8pm. For those who are "virtual" book clubber's I will post some of the things we discussed and you can put in your two cents worth or you can leave comments about the book when you are finished. Enjoy!

Enna Burning

So, I finished another book by Shannon Hale called Enna Burning. It's about a girl from one of her other books called Goose Girl (which I loved!). Enna has the gift of fire and in this book her people and the Tirans are at war and she uses her fire gift to fight that war. But there are a lot of twists and turns. It was really good! It's not my favorite but it's still a great read. If you haven't discovered this author yet, you need too! Especially if you have teenage girls. She most famous for her book Princess Academy (I can't spell today). My favorite book of hers (so far) is called Austenland. It's modern day and my life! Seriously, if you were to read my dating journal you would be reading this book! You've got to take an afternoon and read it. It's not very long. We read it for book club a few months ago and now I am hooked on this author. Stephenie Meyers is a friend of hers and loves her too.
So, the question for this week is, what authors have you been introduced to that have written several books? Meaning, I was introduced to Shannon Hales through Austenland but discovered that she had many more books out there. Same thing with Gail Carson Levine. I read Ella Enchanted and then discovered that she had a pluthera of books. Introduce us to your favorite authors today!