05.26.09 at 10:06 pm by Kara_S
Jillian Dare: A Novel by Melanie M. Jeschke takes the story of Jane Eyre and drops it in to our world complete with cell phones, laptops, and luxury cars.
Jillian, the main character, grew up in foster homes and is determined to make a difference in the life of a child. Much to her delight, she lands a job as a nanny for little Cadence Remington.
Cadence is the only daughter of Ethan Remington, a technology tycoon and film producer, who divides his time between his Virginia estate and his castle in England. Ethan is smitten with Jillian, but she can’t figure out why he would be interested in her.
As the story progresses, strange things happen – threatening e-mail messages, a “ghost”, secrets from a previous life…
Will Jillian learn the truth about the Remington family before she makes a wrong choice?
Overall, I enjoyed Jillian Dare: A Novel. To me, the similarities to Jane Eyre weren’t obvious until I
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05.26.09 at 12:25 am by Kara_S
We’re heading to the “big city” library today. While I love our local, small town library in Spencer, I get really excited about going to the “big city” library in Charleston.
Guess what? The big city library has 3 floors of books! Three floors!!! Three biiiig floors – like one floor is twice the size of the small town library. (The small town library could probably fit inside my house. Things might be a little tight, but it would fit.)
The only gripe I have about the big city library is the layout is confusing. Couldn’t they start the Dewey Decimal system at the front door with the 000′s, then 100′s, then 200′s? Nope, that would be too easy! They have special sections that repeat poor Mr. Dewey – oversized books, reference books (can’t check out), reference books (can check out), W.Va. stuff, new releases, not-so-new releases-but-still-new etc. Does your library do that?
Over the years I’ve learned to
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