Reading Review

I thought that this month with us traveling so much for Jason's graduation and for our vacation back home I would have so much time to read and just relax...well, that didn't happen. However, I did manage to read two books this month.

I know this isn't the typical book that I would write a review about, but I feel that for any parent who is struggling with napping/sleeping babies this is the book to read. Jackson was the hardest baby ever to put down at night and getting him to sleep for long stretches of time was not happening for us. As a desperate parent I searched the Internet, blogs, read articles and finally bought this book. The Sleepeasy Solution provides tips on how to establish a routine, how to travel with a child (which was really helpful this month), and how to ween off of night time bottle feeding (now that Jackson is 4 months we have to start doing). A lot of this sleep schedule things we weren't supposed to start until he was 4 months old, however we did implement a few so that way we could slowly transition into longer stretches of sleep.  I would highly recommend this book to any parent who is struggling at night.

I don't know about you, but I am a huge Jodi Picoult fan! However, I am  not able to read multiple Picoult books back to back...I think they just get to intense for me. The Storyteller will not disappoint any Picoult fan though. Sage is a young baker who tries to hide from the world. She has very few friends and enjoys her solitary life. One day an older gentleman named Josef shows up at Sage's grief group and then he shows up at her bakery and strikes up a conversation with Sage, the two quickly become friends. Sage begins to look forward to spending time with Josef until one day he makes and unbelievable request...he asks Sage to assist him in dying. Josef reveals that he is not the small town neighbor that he has made everyone believe, instead he is a former Nazi from the SS guard who worked at Auschwitz. To Sage this is a horrible truth to find out not only because she is Jewish, but her grandmother is a Holocaust survivor from Auschwitz. This new truth sends Sage on a quest to find out the truth about Josef, and to find out about her grandmothers experiences during the Holocaust. The big question is, will Sage forgive Josef for his horrible crimes? Will she assist him with his request to die?