Well, it's been a crazy few weeks, getting ready for Christmas. All that shopping, preparation, cooking, and then it's over in one day.
As my kids have grown up, I have found Christmas to be a little melancholy at times. When your children are little, there's so much excitement. The emotional build up for weeks, combined with the craziness of Christmas day, complete with exhausted crying fits and hysterical laughter (I always felt like it was good training for working in a mental ward) has always felt like Christmas to me.
So these new quiet Christmases, waiting for everyone to come over for dinner, are a little sad to me. I guess I need to hope and pray for grandchildren to bring the magic back to Christmas in the next few years.
So I didn't get any e-books over the last few weeks, but I came home to some great physical copies (my personal Christmas all year long).
Lots of different books on this weeks list, from a book about addiction, to a memoir that claims "orgasmic childbirth" (looks like it ends up being mental illness, natch, because there is nothing orgasmic about childbirth), and a sequel to a great book, The Witch's Daughter. And since i already have an ebook copy of the Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, I see a giveaway coming!
into admitting herself into a treatment center and she doesn’t know why. She’s not a party hound like the others in her therapy group—but then again, she knows she can’t live without pills or booze. Raised by an abusive father, a detached mother, and a loving aunt and uncle, Randall both loves and hates her life. She’s awkward and a misfit. Her parents introduced her to alcohol and tranquilizers at a young age, ensuring that her teenage years would be full of bad choices, and by the time she’s twenty-three years old, she’s a full-blown drug addict, well acquainted with the miraculous power chemicals have to cure just about any problem she could possibly have—and she’s in more trouble than she’s ever known was possible.
world—it always has been, and it continues to be so today. In fact, women make up a mere 5 to 6 percent of the total pilot population worldwide. But from the first time Erin Seidemann experienced what it was like to see the world from a small plane’s perspective, she was hooked—and she’s spent much of her time since then fighting her way into becoming one of that 5 to 6 percent.
Sunny experiences the shame and stigma of scandal when her father is banned from their church for having an affair with the pastor’s best friend’s wife. As Sunny grows older, she begins to build the life she’s always wanted: she marries, buys a house, enrolls in graduate school, and soon has a baby on the way. But when she experiences the psychological phenomena of orgasmic labor, it triggers a chain of bizarre events, and she gradually descends into a world of delusion and paranoia. As Sunny struggles to separate the real from the unreal, she relies upon friends and family to ground her in truth and love—and keep her from going over the edge into madness.
novel, The Witch's Daughter, was the little book that could―with a captivating story, remarkable heroine, and eye-catching package, it has now netted over 200,000 copies in all formats. Now Paula returns with its sequel The Return of the Witch, another bewitching tale of love and magic, featuring her signature blend of gorgeous writing, a fabulous and intriguing historical backdrop, and a headstrong and relatable heroine readers will cheer for.