BookWormin'

For those of you keeping up with my 2016 Reading List , you may have noticed the sudden stream of books by Susan Mallery. My friend recently introduced me to a new reading app, called the 3M Cloud Library, so that I can read on my phone without spending money on Kindle books - all thanks to my library card.  Through this app, I discovered When We Met by Susan Mallery. Image from Google.com Immediately, I was sucked into the small town of Fool's Gold and the story of Taryn and Angel.  Once finished with the book, I looked and found more and more and more by Mallery.  Unfortunately, When We Met is one of her more recent books in the Fool's Gold series, and so some characters were engaged in one book but hadn't met yet in another, and I quickly found that I read many of the Fool's Gold books in the wrong order.  (Oops.)  Thankfully, knowing the end result never diminished the detailed story for me. One thing I enjoyed about these books is that just as the small

This last school year, I did book club with a high school near me.  (Being homeschooled, school-year book club isn't as fun unless you do it with a high school.)  One of the books we read was Tracks by Robyn Davidson. To be honest, I didn't completely enjoy the book.  It was, however, informative.  Mostly about camels, but also the Australian Outback and the making of magazine articles and also about being a little bit crazy and alone in a desert.  (Like I said, I didn't completely enjoy the book). The book, written by Robyn Davidson, focuses on her solo trek across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback, like it says right on the book cover.  The journey doesn't even begin right away; instead the story focuses on her struggles finding the camels she needed and learning to take care of them, provides a bit of backstory on why she wants to trek across the Outback, and a little bit of her lifestyle and neighbors before she leaves.  From there, it tells about her journ