The Wild Women of Lake Anna

The Wild Women of Lake Anna by Linda Salisbury was the featured book for our Mother, Daughter and Dessert Book Club. We meet last night and had the honor of having the author join us for our meeting!

Here is Mrs. Salisbury....

We started the meeting off with a little ice-breaker, Shelly the facilitator of the Book Club had this little bingo type game for use to play, which was a lot of fun and got everyone up and mingling. After our ice-breaker we had a chance to share what we enjoyed about the book afterwards had time for a question and answer session with Mrs. Salisbury.

The Wild Women of Lake Anna is the first book in a series of 6 right now, the author is working on book 7 now. What was so cool for me was that the story takes place not too far from where we live - Lake Anna. There is mention of other familiar places like Fredericksburg, Mineral, Route 522 and a few other places in our neck of the woods! I also learned that Virginia was ranked third for gold mining, the author said people are still panning for gold around Lake Anna!

This was a delightful book about Bailey Fish, who is eleven and has to leave her home in Florida to live with her grandmother Sugar, while her mother goes to Costa Rica. Bailey has to put up with a bully, and the bully's father is out to get Sugar. Baily learns she comes from a long line of "wild" women who are courageous and adventurous. Both Nicole and I enjoyed reading the book and are looking forward to diving into the other books in the series.

What a Sale!

Audible.com just had their Semi-Annual Half-Price Sale, there were more than 1,000 unabridged titles available at half the regular price, this was a sale you did not want to miss. Here are the audio books that I purchased; thankfully I had a couple credits, and most were under $10 so I didn’t spend much on my selections:

Nim's Island by Wendy Orr

The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright

Jip: His Story by Katherine Paterson

Redwall by Brian Jacques

Bird by Angela Johnson

Summer Ball by Mike Lupica

Two-Minute Drill by Mike Lupica

The First Americans: Prehistory - 1600, A History of US, Book 1 by Joy Hakim (we will use this with Tapestry of Grace next school year)

Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World: Finding Intimacy with God in the Busyness of Life by Joanna Weaver



Last month Audible had a special offer for a free children’s book, they didn’t have a huge selection, but I selected Gift of the Magi by O. Henry which we haven't listened to but I sure we will soon.

Here are a few books that I added to my wish list for school:
A History of the Middle Ages by Crane Brinton, John Christopher and Robert Wolff
A History of Rome, Volume 1 by Cyril Robinson
A History of Rome, Volume 2 by Cyril Robinson

I’m sure that the previous Half–Price sale I just deleted the e-mail without taking a good look at the selections, but you can bet I will not be doing that again! My dear hubby purchased a AutoPilot, which will charge and play my iPod through the car stereo’s aux port, what a sweetie. So now we can listen to my iPod in the car, yippie!

We usually have an audio book in the car at all times, the majority of the books we check out from the library, right now we are listening to Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery. Sometimes, it is a challenge to find good children's books on CD, we have found some that are a "no go" and have to be ejected, but we have found many that have been a treat to listen to. So if you haven't tried listening to books, give it a try.