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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs - So the subtitle says it all here. Jacobs tries to follow the Bible for a year. He starts with the Old Testament and works in the New Testament at the end. It was oddly hilarious. It's the kind of book that points out the intrinsic contradictions of the Bible while desperately trying to reconcile them. Jacobs writes in a similar wryly anecdotal style to Bill Bryson and while I know each of them has their critics, I think they are super funny and I am definitely going to put more Jacobs on my library list.

The Opposite of Me by Sarah Pekkanen - A story about sisters. I think my relationship with my sister is as fractured as the relationship in this story and the whole time I was reading it, I had a knot in my stomach. So, hey, maybe if you don't have the same thing I have going on with my sister, this book would be for you!

Mixed Bags by Melody Carlson and Always Watching by Brandilynn Collins - Both of these were sneakily free downloads on the Kindle and both are Christian literature aimed at young adults. They were pretty good, but sneaked in some preaching I didn't really need to read. The Christian fiction publishers are very sneaky in their descriptions of these novels on the web site. I'm starting to get very, very leery of any of the free downloads.

Katy's New World by Kim Vogal Sawyer - This book was overtly Christian (shocking! another free Kindle download). A Mennonite girl goes to a regular public high school and hijinks follow. I knew the premise going in. I thought the book was okay in a "we're all different and we're all picked on in high school" kind of way.