15. (really 14 and 1/8) The Pickwick Papers

Okay, I love Charles Dickens. I have read many of his books, so I thought that I would try this classic. Sorry, it was just boring and I couldn't get into it.

14. The Woman who was not all there

This is a book from Norma Gillming, my mother-in-law. She is an avid reader!!
I have mixed feelings about this book. I like the story telling and you really know the characters. It is just a really bittersweet story. The "woman" ends up being a single mom of 4 kids. She never really finds happiness. Just sort of drifts through life on the current of her cares.

13. Mistress Pat

Well, Pat of Silver Bush is now 20. Her boyhood friend Hilary (a boy) has professed his love, but Pat is not ready to settle down or leave Silver Bush. Hilary goes off to college and Pat continues her carefree life. But as the years go by, she has a restlessness inside and can't figure it out. But we hopeless romantics know that nothing can take the place of true love in our lives. We get our happy ending!

12. Jane of Lantern Hill

again with LM Montgomery!
Jane Stuart lives in a mansion in Toronto with her domineering grandmother and beautiful but sad mother. Then she accidentally discovers that her father is alive and living on PEI. She gets to spend the summer with him. All is beautiful and ends happily. Her mom and dad end up back together and Jane is overjoyed. This was also made into a great movie!

11. Chronicles of Avonlea

Continuing on in my LM Montgomery phase..This is a book of short stories about life on Prince Edward island.
Love it!

10. Pat of Silver Bush

Can't go wrong with another LM Montgomery book. Pat starts out as a 5 year old girl. She LOVES her family and her beloved home & farm, Silver Bush. She loves every tree and bush and brook etc...
Great story of girlhood. Recommend to every Anne of Green Gables fan.

9. War Horse

I really liked this book. It is set in 1914 and is told from the point of view of the horse, Joey. It is a story of devotion and love both by horse and Albert, his original owner. My sister told me to NOT see the movie because it is too sad. But the book was really good - isn't that always the case??