Carol Banach: It Bloomed Finally

It's been three years since our Passion Plant flowered. It waited until the last weekend of summer but it was worth the wait.

Reading updates

Carol's bookshelf: read

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

I recommend this novel if you enjoy a magnificently written story and promise to not skim through it. One of the few books in which I purposely slowed down to better enjoy and appreciate the author's beautiful writing. I did put it down ...

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

by Edith Hahn Beer

Never thought I'd like, or even bother reading another Holocaust book; however this nonfiction book was well worth my time. This story is told by a Jewish woman survivor who took numerous chances to hide her identity in order to survive....

Brewster

by Mark Slouka

After hearing an interview with the author on NPR, I pushed this one in front of several "to-reads" on my list. I was intrigued with the story mainly because it is not "chick-lit". A male author; narrated by a 16-17 year old teenage boy ...