Looking back over the posts for 2013, I decided to identify a favorite from each month. Some months had more possibilities, but I took out my red editing pen and here we are (you can find my reviews by typing in the title to the search function):
Favorites for 2013:
December: The Sound of Things Falling
November: The Goldfinch
October: The Girl You Left Behind
September: Stranger on the 16:02
August: A Tale for the Time Being
July: Instructions for a Heatwave
June: The Ocean at the Other End of the Lane
May: Best Kept Secret
April: Last Friends
March: What Alice Forgot
February: Navigating Early
January: The Art Forger
If you haven’t read any of these yet in 2013, there’s still time. What were your favorites this year?
The No Charge Book Bunch 
Hi Rosemary, I am looking for a newish book. Can’t remember the title or author! Can you help? Description was a biracial couple dies and leaves behind their biracial daughter who goes to live with the African American side of the family. Mahalo, Suzanne Machbitz Sent from my iPad
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The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow sounds like it. “After a devastating family tragedy in Chicago with Rachel the only survivor, she goes to live with the paternal grandmother she’s never met, in a decidedly black neighborhood in Portland, Ore. Suddenly, at 11, Rachel is in a world that demands her to be either white or black.”
I loved The Girl You Left Behind too!
JoJo Moyes has become one of my favorite authors.
My favourite book I read this year was Julie Otsuka’s “When the Emperor Was Divine”. Beautiful and very well-written little book.
Have not read that one and will look for it now. Thanks and Happy New Year!