http://www.betsysbookclub.com Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:49:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I loved this book ...and it's been 3 days since I have finished reading it and I cannot stop thinking about it. This is another WWII story but  not your typical story. Don't get me wrong...the war is going on...there are atrocities for sure...and heart break, and the heroine of this story is ... http://www.betsysbookclub.com/books-review/my-enemys-cradle-sara-young/ For some reason this book took me forever to get through..but not because I didn't like it. In fact I really enjoyed this book.  The story is about Alice Lindgren, a nice girl from a small Midwestern town. Alice is a typical teenager until one day a tragic accident changes her ... http://www.betsysbookclub.com/books-review/american-wife-curtis-sittenfeld/ I love the bittersweet feeling as you are finishing a great book, when you finally find out the answers you have been waiting for....and you can't stop turning the pages to put all the pieces together, and if you are lucky you even get a happy ending... but then you ... http://www.betsysbookclub.com/books-review/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet-jamie-ford/ Philippa Gregory and her stories of the Kings and Queens of England are truly 0ne of my favorite time periods to read about and her newest book does not disappoint.  This is the story of 3 brothers who turn against each other in order to obtain the throne of England ... http://www.betsysbookclub.com/books-review/the-white-queen-philippa-gregory/ This story is one of the most intense, heartbreaking and inspirational books I have read.  The books main character is a teenage girl named Precious, who is physically, emotionally and sexually by both of her parents.  She is also illiterate.  Precious shares with the reader all the difficulties of her life and also how she manages ... http://www.betsysbookclub.com/books-review/push-sapphire/ There is something about the world of the Orthodox Jews that I just find fascinating.  To me the rules and laws make the religion so difficult to follow yet people continue to do so. This story gives you a very clear picture of how difficult it is to follow ... http://www.betsysbookclub.com/books-review/the-ladies-auxiliary-tova-mirvis/ Dragon House is the newest book from one of my favorite authors John Shors. The story takes place in Vietnam and tells the story of Iris and Noah, two Americans on the quest to help get some of Vietnams street children off the streets and into a safe environment, where ... http://www.betsysbookclub.com/books-review/dragon-house-john-shors/ There was something about this book that just had me captivated right from the start. There are seemingly 2 very different stories being told in the book that eventually do intertwine when you least expect it.  The first story takes place in 1992 with the tragic death of a young girl travelling ... http://www.betsysbookclub.com/books-review/random-acts-of-heroic-love-danny-scheinmann/ This book was not at all what I was hoping it would be. In all fairness though I had no idea what it was about only that people I had talked to loved it.  If a book doesn't pull me in right off the bat I am not one to give ... http://www.betsysbookclub.com/books-review/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-stieg-larsson/ This was a great book! Not only did I enjoy the story but I also learned a lot and found the topic so interesting. There are actually 2 stories that take place, each centering on the 19th wife in a plural marriage, also known as polygamy, in the Mormon ... http://www.betsysbookclub.com/books-review/the-19th-wife-david-ebershoff/