May 11, 2010
If You Ask Me... : Ali from Brooksville, FL and Alyssa Hollingsworth from Seminary, MS
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In today's If You Ask Me... Q&A, 17-year-old Ali Mariani from Brooksville, FL and 14-year-old Alyssa Hollingsworth from Seminary, MS share some favorite reads including Nicholas Sparks's THE LAST SONG, Richelle Meade's Vampire Academy and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series.
Ali Mariani from Brooksville, FL
Moms are great. They carry you around in their bellies for months, give painful birth to you, and then (hopefully) spend years caring for, worrying over and nurturing you until you're (hopefully) able to do all that life stuff for yourself.
Editorial content for Needles and Pearls
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Two weddings and a year after her husband's funeral, Jo Mackenzie is finally starting to get the hang of being a single parent. The boys are thriving, the yarn shop is doing well --- thanks to Jo's improvements --- and she's just about keeping her head above water.
About the Book
The warm and witty sequel to THE BEACH STREET KNITTING SOCIETY AND YARN CLUB.
Slip one…
Two weddings and a year after her husband's funeral, Jo Mackenzie is finally starting to get the hang of being a single parent. The boys are thriving, the yarn shop is doing well --- thanks to Jo's improvements --- and she's just about keeping her head above water.
Knit two together…
But a man from Jo's past and a new romance with the hunky local carpenter come along and make life a whole lot more interesting.
Cast off…
Can Jo cope when things get really complicated? Because if knitting really does keep you sane when life starts to unravel, Jo's going to need much bigger needles.
Christian Zabriskie is a young-adult librarian at Queens Library in New York City.
This past Thursday, my book club got together for our monthly meeting to discuss THE PIANO TEACHER by Janice Y.K. Lee. There were just four of us this month's and we were split down the middle as to whether or not we liked the book.
