Snow Days Are Awesome!

This weekend provided a very natural and good excuse to stay indoors with a good book...or two!  It was snowy, windy, and bitterly cold, so my crazy little dog and I curled up with a blanket and some fun reading. 

In Places Hidden by Tracie Peterson is the first book in a trilogy called Golden Gates Secrets.  Camri Coulter travels from Chicago to San Francisco in 1905 to find her brother Caleb from whom they haven't heard a word in about three months.  Along the way she meets two other young ladies also on a search for people and answers of their own.  Is Caleb still alive?  Will Camri find him?  Will she find love in San Francisco?  There's only one way to find out.  You need to read the book!  This was a light, breezy read that was a pleasant way to spend my time indoors with cups of tea and hours of classical or light jazz music (variety is the spice of life!).

The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott is the first novel she wrote at the age of 17.  If you are saying, "I've never heard of it," that's because it was only rediscovered in 1988 and published for the first time shortly thereafter.  Edith Adelon is an orphan from Italy who was found in an orphanage when she was 10 and brought back to England to live with a wealthy family as the companion of their daughter Amy.  Edith is lovely and kind and possessing every good virtue a young woman should.  She senses her aloneness and poverty keenly and doesn't feel that the good things Amy will one day enjoy could ever be hers as well.  There is a twist in the plot - surprise! - and all is not as it seems.  This was a quick read.  I read it in an afternoon.  I think you'll enjoy the book for itself, but also because of the glimpse it gives into the mind of a very young Louisa May Alcott.  There is a movie based on the book (Meredith Baxter is a part of the cast), but they've changed many aspects of the story.

I hope that you'll enjoy one or both of these pleasant stories.  Until next time...