The Grateful Book Dragon

I fully expected a good old fashioned gothic thriller and while Girl In The Walls by AJ Gnuse  is that, it's also so much more. After Elise loses her parents in a car accident she is sent to a foster home for the night so the adults can figure out where to send her. In her grief she decides to take things into her own hands and sneaks off in the night walking miles to an old house her family once lived in. She secretly takes up residency in the hollows of the old house coming out when the new occupants the Mason family are at work or at school or on occassion when they are asleep. She uses this time to eat, watch tv or search for remnants of her families past life in the house, things her parents accidentally left behind or lost. When they are home she stays in the walls or attic and reads books she's borrowed from the house.  Can a person really hide in another families house without said family eventually getting wise that something isn't quiet right. What wou...

I've decided I'm not going to do the my week in books posts anymore because I read way too many and all the info and ratings can just be found on Goodreads anyway. So instead I'm going to write about the books and bookish things that interest me the most and maybe the odd thing from my life I feel worth sharing. I think it will be worthwhile and way more entertaining to read than a list of descriptions of my reading habits for the week. I may do my favourite books of the month post going forward but I shall see how things go. 

This week I read more novels than graphics. I also found myself feeling very uncomfortable with a knowing pain in my gut because the book I'm about to give my thoughts on hits a nerve with me. I have since getting married in 2012 really explored my relationship with the church and if I wanted to still be a part of it so I'm probably way ahead in terms of knowing how I feel about the church than maybe the author was at the time of writing her book. The book in question is Are You There God? It's Me, Ellen by Ellen Coyne One of the things about me you need to understand is that I tend to be very understanding. I listen to people and try to see things from thier perspective. I see the merits in most things. This book is about journalist Ellen Coyne and her journey back to Catholicism. She doesn't agree with thier policies or the source material on which the religion is based but yet still feels she needs Catholicism. To me from reading my reading of the book sh...