Does This Church Make Me Look Fat? by Rhoda Janzen

In this humorous book, Rhoda shares about her life as she met and married a nice Christian man, and battled breast cancer. Rhoda compares the Pentecostal church that her boyfriend, then husband attends with the much more staid Mennonite church of her youth. Although she had previously abandoned God and religion, when faced with cancer, and a loving Christian man and church, she was able to once again welcome God and faith into her life. She is an excellent writer and it is refreshing to read such a well-written book.

Homo by Michael Harris

I found this book to be depressing. Will is a high school senior in a small town where the only other homosexual boy at his school, Daniel, is picked on relentlessly. Will looks online for a boyfriend and finds an older man in a nearby city. In the meantime, he is not a good friend to Julie and Daniel, his only friends, he lets his grades slip and he lies to his parents. The older man he met online gives him drugs and only after they have sex, with a condom at least, does he tell Will that he is HIV positive.
Then there are some websites listed in the author's note at the end of the book that are support networks for queer teens, which is probably good because if they were not depressed before they read this book, they may be by the time they finish it.

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

This is a really long book.  Beginning when Jules is 15 at a summer camp, following her life and the lives of her best friends from camp - Ethan, Ash, and Jonah, the book ends when they are all in their early 50s. Life happens.  And love and joy and sorrow and trials and death.
It is an interesting book.
I am not really sure if it was worth taking the time to read it because it seemed really long.
Jules deals a lot with her jealousy of Ethan and Ash's success and wealth. However, they have their own problems.  I think by the end she finally learned that she should just be satisfied with what she had instead of wishing she had more. 

Simply Delicious Amish Cooking by Sherry Gore

This is a lovely cookbook with beautiful photos and endearing stories about the Amish in Sarasota, Florida. The stories are interesting and the recipes are simple and delicious. I like that the recipes don't include a lot of processed food ingredients in them or strange gourmet ingredients that are difficult to find in stores. 

Unraveling by Elizabeth Norris

Young adult paranormal romance X-Files style!
Fans of both will enjoy this excellent book.
Seventeen year old Janelle's dad is an FBI agent, her mom is bi-polar, her younger brother is a nice guy and her life is pretty normal - until she gets hit by a pick-up truck and dies.
And then, a guy named Ben brings her back to life.
After that, nothing is the same.
FBI case, looking in her dad's files, aliens, portals to alternate universes, plot twists, and saving the world from being destroyed.
Add a romance with Ben to that, and it all makes an excellent book!
Totally fantastic first book!
I look forward to reading more by this author.

Becoming a Minimalist: A guide to living a great life with less through minimalism by Kimberly Wilson

This is a well written book about the minimalist lifestyle what we purchase, to what we eat, to what we do, to how we decorate our homes. I am definitely NOT a minimalist. I am a minimalist wannabe - sort of. I enjoyed the book and thought it was really good.

Screwed by Laurie Plissner

Grace is a smart Christian girl who gets pregnant by a good looking jerk the first and only time they have sex, even though they used a condom. Her parents who are super-Christians well known in the community for helping others and running an abstinence class, freak out when they learn she is pregnant because it will ruin their reputation. When they kick her out of the house for refusing to have an abortion, which they have taught Grace is wrong, but they feel is necessary to hide her sin and save their reputation, Mrs. T., the kindly old rich Jewish woman who lives across the street happens to see the confrontation and she brings Grace into her house to live. Grace struggles as the only pregnant girl in her high school as all of her friends desert her except for her best friend and Charlie, Mrs. T.'s handsome nephew who happens to also be living with her his senior year. I thought the book was well written and interesting with a bit of romance and teenage angst but things seemed to work out too neatly and the characters seemed a bit too stereotypical.