March Book Club Book Poll---share you...
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March Book Club Book Poll---share you...
| Thu, 02-22-2007 - 10:59pm |
March Book Club Book Poll---share your vote now!
- Secret Lives of Bees
- Running With Scissors
- Cross
- My Sisters Keeper
- The Red Tent
You will not be able to change your vote.

Kelly
I thought I'd post a little summary of the books for those who haven't read them yet.
The Secret Life of Bees: In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother.
Running with Scissors: Running with scissors is the true story of a boy who's mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblence to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the Doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where the rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year around, where valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull and electroshock therapy machine could provide entertainment. The funny, harrowing and bestselling account of an ordinary boys survival under most extraordinary circumstances.
Cross: Forensic psychologist Alex Cross's storied career in private practice, with the FBI and as a Washington, D.C., cop has brought him into contact with all kinds of seriously disturbed killers, but his 12th outing from bestseller Patterson (after 2005's Mary, Mary) may be the ultimate in lunatic deadliness. Beginning with a flashback to the murder of Cross's wife, Maria, Patterson quickly introduces Michael Sullivan (aka the Butcher of Sligo). What follows is a frenetically paced series of brutal rapes and killings by Sullivan, once employed by the mob as a freelancer and now at war with them. Cross juggles being a single parent and being involved in the dangerous game of tracking serial killers until he finally decides to give it up for his family. Needless to say, he's drawn back into the game when it promises a chance of finding Maria's killer. Cross's competence and vulnerability make a stark contrast with Sullivan's sadistic mutilations and psychological manipulations of his victims. Fans know that Cross will survive, but at what cost?
My Sister's Keeper:
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the Secret Lives of Bees was sooooooooo good!