LOVED this book.  The plot of this book consists of a child psychologist who is defamed through the court system for not recognizing the potential of violence in one of her clients.  The parents of the client and the parents of victims need someone to blame for the atrocious act committed by this client, so they go after her psychologist and basically discredit her completely.  Now, the ruined psychologist Julia feels like she has nothing and is essentially lost.  Meanwhile, Julia's sister, a...

I started reading If I Stay yesterday morning and finished it before 9pm.  The book is about a young girl named Mia whose family goes for a drive but never makes it to their destination.  Instead, they are hit by a large truck and their lives change forever.  Mia narrates her out-of-body experience as she sees her parent's lifeless bodies, searches frantically for her much younger brother, watches the surgeons operate on her, and sees her remaining family and close friends deal with the situa...

My family and I often share books, so after reading The Hunger Games I had to wait for my husband to finish Catching Fire.  The thing is, I started reading another book in the meantime and never got around to reading the second.  When the third book came out, I was so excited but had to (obviously) read the second.  I picked the book up on a Wednesday and it was done by Friday evening - it was so captivating.  I am a very busy person so reading a book of that magnitude in that amount of time ...