Ketchup, I mean catch up

I have still been reading. I just haven't posted in a while. For book club, I recently read The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker. It's a quick & easy read and a really, really cute story. I think Disney is currently making a movie of it. I'm excited to read the other books in the series. But, my 3rd-grade daughter is reading The Frog Princess first, then we'll read the rest together. When the princess kisses the frog prince, the spell backfires & she turns into a frog too. They have many adventures together on their quest to be turned back.

I also read ahead on the book club list & read My Enemy's Cradle by Sara Young. This is Sara Pennypacker's first novel for adults; she's famous for her Clementine books for children. It was incredible! It is a WWII story about the Lebensborn. This is the German program in which German women or women of occupied countries who have been impregnated by Germans could go to a maternity hospital where they would live and be cared for for the course of their pregnancy & give birth there. It was the Nazi's idea of breeding the perfect race. It was a very interesting book--a fictitous story of a half-Jewish girl who takes her cousin's place in the maternity hospital in order to hide her heritage. Where better to hide than under the enemy's nose? Then she has to try to escape with her baby. I couldn't put the book down. Be warned, there are a few "ahem" scenes in the book. Well worth the read.

I am currently reading The Eight by Katherine Neville. If you like conspiracy theories, you'll love it. It's along the same lines as the DaVinci Code. It was written 20 years ago & apparently didn't do so well. When the DaVinci Code came out, The Eight was re-published. The author has also recently written the sequel, The Fire, which I will probably read next. It is written in an interesting style--flipping back and forth between events that happened in the 1700's in France/Europe during the French Revolution and the 1970's with a woman who is caught in the middle of a mystery. If you are interested in historical fiction with lots of mystery, intrigue, conspiracy, suspense and surprises you'll love this book! You can read the synopsis here. Be sure you give yourself plenty of time to read it. It's 600 pages of small print, and it takes me longer cuz I'm trying to unravel the riddles while I read. Love it so far!