This book was a fantastic mix of Romance, Native American Activism, and straight up ugly Capitalism. The main characters (Nix and Maxim) are fantastically well written and developed. The author really must have done a lot of research for this story, and she was very good at finding a topic that is very relatable to what is happening today without, completely mirroring real situations. I jumped right in to the sequel!

A very raw and thorough depiction of an alcoholics journey. It was an eye opening look into his life.

I liked when the bird yelled at Mr. Panda. The lesson of the book is to wait.

Highly recommend. WW11 regarding the Polish women's camp. ravensbruck and experiments. They performed on them. Taking you from New York City to Germany and Poland with three main characters that will make you shutter at times and smile over their strength and courage

4 stars for an engaging novella by Linda Castillo. In this book a power outage coincides with an Amish "rager" where a hundred or Amish teens(many underage) gather for drinking and partying. Kate Burkholder, Painters Mill Police Chief arrives at the scene and finds that a teenage girl has been assaulted and is unconscious. Kate does solve the case, with help from her small department and he significant other, John Tomasetti, investigator for the Ohio BCI(Bureau of Criminal Investigation). One quote: "It's dark in Painters Mill, Ohio. The freshly plowed fields are as rich and black as dark chocolate. " I read this library book in 1 day.

This was a good book about animals who hibernate. It intrigued my son enough to keep asking questions about what and why certain animals hibernate.

My favorite fish are the Clown Fish and Barracuda fish.

This book was kind of sad and depressing to me. Not a typical beach read that I’m used to from her

Update- July 24, 2020- If you do one thing, after readingThe One and Only Ivan, of course it should be to immediately listen to the audiobook version of Bob’s story narrated by the incomparable Danny DeVito! What an absolute treat! I’m changing my stars on this one! April,2020-mid pandemic- I recently attended a virtual workshop sponsored by School Library Journal and received an electronic ARC from Harper Collins for an honest review. I appreciated being able to read this early, but I will have to read a real copy, so that I can see the illustrations of Bob, and his crew. Just a truly enjoyable adventure story about Bob, Ruby, and Ivan, and a whole new cast of characters.

I like this book because the girl likes her Grandma, and I like both of my Grandmas, too!