Thursday, October 25, 2012

The Secret Keeper by, Kate Morton

The Secret Keeper by, Kate Morton

Synopsis:1960 England. Laurel Nicolson is sixteen years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime.

Fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress, living in London. She returns to Green Acres for Dorothy’s ninetieth birthday and finds herself overwhelmed by memories and questions she has not thought about for decades. She decides to find out the truth about the events of that summer day and lay to rest her own feelings of guilt. One photograph, of her mother and a woman Laurel has never met, called Vivian, is her first clue.

The Secret Keeper explores longings and dreams, the lengths some people go to fulfill them, and the strange consequences they sometimes have. It is a story of lovers, friends, dreamers and schemers, play-acting and deception told against a backdrop of events that changed the world.


My Review:

Another great book from Kate Morton; she sure knows how to weave a story. This one is a story of secrets, family, murder and of learning the truth before its too late. When Laurel was a child she witnesses something very disturbing and now 50 years later her mother is dying and she sets out to find the truth behind what happened. But what she finds isn’t what she expects does she even know her mother at all. Her mom always said they were her second chance but from what or who?

As always Kate Morton blends the past and present story together with masterful ease, I had such a hard time turning this off (audio) I did not want to stop listening for a minute, this one grabbed me in the first 5 minutes and never let me go right up to the end. I started suspecting certain things **No Spoilers** and was glad when it confirmed I was right. I think the biggest lesson Laurel learned in this one was that the mother she knew and loved all her life was still that same woman even with all her secrets laid bare, it really didn’t change anything in her feelings towards her mother and I liked that.

The story of Dorothy’s past gave such a great feel of England during the blitz, how even with bombs dropping people tried to keep their chin up. I really felt the atmosphere of the time.

There was also a Doctor Who reference that made me love this author all the more!

If you can’t tell I love this author and will read whatever she writes and look forward to another book very soon!

4 ½ Stars




Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Our teen library patrons Read Banned Books

Our teen readers chose books they were surprised had been banned and thought that banning books as a whole was a very silly idea! Proves there is hope for the future!
The books they chose were:
Ashley- The Hunger Games by, Suzanne Collins
Joanna-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by,Mark Twain
Sandra- Snakehead by, Anthony Horowitz



Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Eddy-New Rockford Library Reads Banned Books


Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Bantam. Challenged in the Manheim Township, Pa.
schools (2007) due to sexual references. The book was
retained in the ninth-grade English curriculum, but it was
decided to teach the book later in the school year, after a
public forum was held with parents to discuss that book
and the entire literary canon of the English department.
Challenged in the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho School District
(2007). Some parents say the book, along with five others,
should require parental permission for students to read