Meg Cabot’s second book in the Mediator series keeps you on the edge of your seat as she takes you through Suez Simon’s life as a mediator. Suez, a high-schooler, has recently moved from New York to California to live with her mother and new step father and brothers, a major change. But one thing in her life stays the same: the fact that she sees and talks to the dead. As a mediator, she is destined to help the ghosts of dead people finally rest. To do this, she is required to do numerous crazy things, including a Brazilian exorcism and pursuing a mysterious person by the name of Red, while somehow not damaging her social reputation too badly.
In the second book of the series, Ninth Key, Suez is woken up in the middle of night by a screaming female ghost, the start of her problems. Read More
The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. 
This book is all about shopping. Initially I got sick of reading it. Had I read this one first I would not have read the rest in the series. But I am glad that I read Shopaholic and Sister first. I kept wondering how could one be such a chronic shopper. But I found it very hard to have any kind of sympathy or empathy for Rebecca at first. The story did start to move along and become more interesting about half way. Luke is prime romantic lead material and Rebecca actually does something besides shop. The supporting characters are amusing and just right for this kind of book… In other words – the story had the makings of a good one, but falls a bit short. At the end of the book, I wasn’t totally disappointed.
I love reading manga. This one was funny, romantic and serious. Yuuri has found herself transported back to a time where iron is the most precious substance and mage craft is used to eliminate the candidates for the throne, one of whom is Prince Kail, whom Yuuri falls in love with. Under the psuedonym of Princess Yuuri, AKA the goddess Ishtar, Yuuri is a symbol of hope. As she finds herself becoming more deeply entangled in the world she has fallen into, she has to remind herself that her place is in Japan, during her time. But she still cares about the inhabitants and land of the Past and hopes to protect it. This is really a nice story.
“Funny, perceptive, and moving.â€Ââ€â€USA Today