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Pushing Up Daisies

Rosemary Harris

Recommended by: Rhonda (yet another great librarian)

6/8-15

Meet Paula Holliday, a transplanted media exec who trades her stilettos for garden clogs when she makes the move from the big city to the suburbs to start a gardening business. Paula can handle deer, slugs, and the occasional human pest--but she's not prepared for the mummified body she finds while restoring the gardens at Halcyon, a local landmark.
   Casual snooping turns serious when a body is impaled on a garden tool and one of Paula's friends is arrested for the crime.
   Aided by the still-hot aging rocker who owns the neighborhood greasy spoon, a wise-cracking former colleague, and a sexy Mexican laborer with a few secrets of his own, Paula digs for the truth and unearths more dirty business the town has kept buried for years.

What I thought: It wasn't bad. Just not that good. I always felt like I was missing something. I would read back over something and it just seemed off. But it was a good story line.

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My Daniel

Pan Conrad
Recommended by: Melissa (FEET!)
S: 6/3 F: 6/7

   "All I want to find is one dinosaur," Daniel was saying. "And I'll find it right here. Like I do all my fossils."

Wandering through the Natural History Museum with her grandchildren, Julia Creath feels the presence of her dead brother, Daniel. She remembers a time when fossil fever hit everyone, old and young--a time when people would even kill for those old bones under the ground.

Julia becomes the Nebraska farm girl she once was, as she weaves together the story of the great dinosaur rush--and adventurous tale of love and treachery, but most of all the story of her own childhood, and of the older brother she loved more than anything. Daniel had a dream: to save their family's farm by finding a dinosaur. It was a dream that Julia shared--and that she alone would see come true.

My Thoughts: I loved it! Even if it is a young adult book I still really liked it. I love books based the the late 1800's. I love old people telling stories of that time. I was sad when I finished, because it was over and I had no more to read.