Just finished My Name is Mary Sutter, historical fiction set in the Civil War era. Very good read, strong female character with the other characters just as believable as Mary. Well researched. The war scenes were very detailed and gave me a very good vision of the horror of the field hospitals that were constructed during the battles. Hospital is too strong a word but the conditions that are described in which the surgeons and nurses dealt with during the fighting stayed with me even after I finished the book.
Back to more YA fiction - The Boy Book by E. Lockhart. Very entertaining. Funny, on target observations of teenage boys.

Well we finally met to discuss The Lace Reader. Unfortunately too much time had passed to really discuss it however it seemed that none of us really liked it and two people actually figured out the mystery well before the end of the book. The rest of us clearly just read to enjoy the story! Despite having poor memories for that book we did discuss lots of other books we were reading, had read or were planning on reading. The Invisible Bridge, Stephen King, some YA books ( my latest thing is reading YA fiction). I suggested The Hunger Games series- can't wait until the third book comes out August 24th. Our September book is My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor.

Just finished a great fun YA read My Fair Godmother by Janette Rallison. Witty and humorous based on several fairy tales. I thoroughly enjoyed it and couldn't put it down. Looking forward to reading more by Janette Rallison. I checked out her blog which is fun to peruse ( www. janette-rallison.blogspot.com). Really enjoy the YA selections I have read this summer.