Surrender, Dorothy  -  Meg Wolitzer

                        new author


Not my favorite kind of book.  Character development.  

Sara is killed in a car accident early on in the story.  The rest of the book is about how her mother and friends deal with her death.  As a mother myself, I should have had stronger feelings for this loss but the author did not make me feel any connection to the daughter or the mother.  

Oh well, on to the next book on my toppling bookpile!!

    The Last Runaway    -   Tracy Chevalier

             Historical Fiction


The year is 1850.   The place is near Oberlin, Ohio.   The main character is an English Quaker, Honor Bright.

We start in England, take a rough sea voyage to America, and travel to Ohio .   Here we encounter many differences from England,  from newly discovered birds; a hummingbird, insects ; a lightening bug, to many colorful people.

A nicely written book about the Quaker faith, early Ohio and the underground railway. Honor Bright struggles with doing the right thing and doing the lawful thing.

I enjoyed meeting Honor, Jack, Donovan, and Belle, and Mrs. Reed.  It was an enjoyable journey.