Goodnight Nobody - Jennifer Weiner

I read it. I don't really remember it aside from being disappointed. I guess I need to remember to update this more often.

Sweetness in the Belly - Camilla Gibb

While I wouldn't say that this is in the top 10 novels I've read, nor would I call it a well-written favorite, it is a fascinating look at a world that I never even knew existed.



Lilly's world-travelling British parents are killed leaving her alone, a white orphan in Ethiopia. She is raised by Muslin Sufis, and falls in love with an Ethiopian doctor. Somehow, during the famine and political uprising in Ethiopia in the 1980's she ends up back in England alone, living among the many refugees. It covers religion, politics, feminism and more wrapped up in hope, heartbreak and the idea of home.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards

I absolutely could not put this book down, especially coming on the heels of a strange dream about bearing twins. It's the story of a couple who have twins, a perfectly healthy boy and a girl with Down's syndrome. The husband, a doctor, tells the nurse to take the girl to an institution and tells his wife that the baby girl died. The nurse can't give the child away and leaves the city to raise her on her own. This split-second decision has consequences for the rest of their lives and beyond, affecting them all in ways that noone ever anticipated.

The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett

I can't seem to read just one Terry Pratchett novel. This is another old favorite.