Handle with Care - Jodie Picoult

"Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it's all worth it because Willow is, well, funny as it seems, perfect. She's smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health." Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte should have known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life - Goodreads

This was and unbelievable book. It had me wrapped up in it from the very beginning. very sad and emotional journey. The ending made me really mad. Still a really great book.

4 out of 5 stars

Once Bitten . . .

One minute Leigh is walking home in the early hours of the morning, and the next a vampire is sinking his teeth into her neck. Turns out it was a rogue vampire marked for termination, but it does Leigh little good because the damage's already been done. She's become one of them.

Lucian Argeneau, hunter of rogue vampires, has been alive for over two thousand years, and there's very little to excite him anymore. Food has become tasteless, sex is ordinary. Then Leigh drops into his life. Suddenly he finds himself craving coffee . . . and imagining the sassy brunette atop the black satin sheets on his nice big bed. It's Lucian's job now to enlighten Leigh on the inner workings of being immortal . . . and tutoring her is igniting a fire in him that hasn't burned in centuries.

But until they stop a renegade bloodsucker from destroying the human race, passion will have to wait!
-Goodreads

This book had a slow start for me but ended really good. Each new book in the Argeneau series I read seems to get just a little bit better!

3 1/2 out of 5 stars

Book club meeting #1

Our very first book club meeting was this afternoon. Judy, Kris, Sarah and I got together at my house so we could discuss the book How High The Moon. lots and lots of fun was had. For a parting gift I gave them a can of Orange Crush, a honey teaspoon (that I bought while we were at Disney) and a container of Pez. I think they were all pleasantly surprised by the gifts.
I would certainly say our first meeting was a success. For a full review scroll down and you will find it in March.

Our next book club book is Crow Lake by Mary Lawson.