Book 55: The Witch's Daughter

The Witch's Daugher, written by Paula Brackston.

54: Bossypants

Probably the single funniest book I have ever read in my entire life. You need to read this book. Seriously. Well, unless you are easily offended... So funny!

53: Love Times Three

Love Time Three - about a modern polygamist family. These types of books are so interesting to me, and having never even heard of this family, I really enjoyed it:)

52: The Help

LOVED this book. It started out being hard to read (not *proper* enlglish) and then it was just plain sad to read... A Summary from wikipedia:

The Help is set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi and told mainly from the perspective of three women: Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter. Aibileen is a black maid who cleans houses and cares for the young children of various white families. Her first job since her own 24-year-old son was killed on his job, is caring for toddler Mae Mobley Leefolt. Minny is Aibileen's confrontational friend who frequently tells her employers what she thinks of them. Her actions have led to her being fired from 19 jobs. Minny's most recent employer was Mrs. Walters, mother of Hilly Holbrook. Hilly is the social leader of the community, and head of the Junior League. She is the nemesis of all three main characters.
Miss Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is the daughter of a prominent white family whose cotton farm employs many African-Americans in the fields, as well as in the household. Skeeter has just finished college and comes home with big dreams of becoming a writer; her mother's big dream for her is to get her married, although Skeeter is not interested. What does interest her is that Constantine, the maid who raised her, is nowhere to be found: Skeeter's family tells her that Constantine abruptly quit and went to live with relatives in Chicago. Constantine had been writing to Skeeter the whole time she was away at college and the most recent letter had promised her a surprise upon her homecoming. Skeeter does not consider Constantine's unexplained absence a good surprise and wonders what happened, but nobody will discuss Constantine.
This discussion awakens Skeeter to the realization that her friends' maids are treated very differently from how white people are treated. She decides that she wants to reveal the truth to the world from the maids' perspectives by writing a book about it. Written in the first person from the perspective of Aibileen, Minny and Skeeter, the struggles Skeeter experiences to communicate with the maids and gain their trust is revealed, as well as the issues of overcoming long-standing barriers in customs and laws by all of the characters. The daily lives of Southern homemakers and their maids during the early 1960s in Mississippi are explored. The dangers of undertaking writing a book about African-Americans speaking out in the South during the early '60s hover constantly over the three women.

And with that, I have successfully completed my 52 books in 52 weeks! Totally did not think I would make it:)

51: Ironwood Tree

50: The Frog Princess

I had listened to this on CD in the car with the kids a while back, and forgot to post it:) I had only picked up the audio version at the library, and had no idea that this is actually book one in a pretty long series. I think I might have to read the rest of them:)

49: The Red Pyramid

The Red Pyramid. Book one in the Kane Chronicles, by Rick Riordan. Same guy who wrote the Heroes of Olympus Series. I really liked those, so I wanted to read his other work. He's got this, and one other series going on right now that I plan on reading. I am not into Egyptian anything, at all... But this book was really good, and I was really *into* it from the beginning.

48: Lucinda's Secret

Book 47 : The Last Battle

Book 46 : The Seeing Stone