The Accidental Mother by Rowan Coleman

Family and friends are more important than money, occupations, and love interests. This statement that should be obvious to all that are close to family and friends, is explored in Coleman's novel. Sophie, a middle aged woman living in London, is forced to take a break from her well paying, life shadowing job when her childhood best friend dies and her kids are without a legal guardian. Sophie thinks that taking care of two little girls is going to wreck her life, and is therefore determined to find Bella and Izzy's father who abandoned the family right before Izzy was born. The kids wreck her couch, prevent her from working on many parties, and put a sharp knife into a relationship with a client. When the girls' father, Louis, is found by a private detective found by Sophie, she has become attahced to the girls like they are her own. Sophie does not want to leave them. When the kids have gotten used to their father, Sohpie leaves, and after working for three months and receiving a promotion nothing feels right for her. Sophie realizes that the kids, and their father who loves Sophie, are who she really wants to spend their time with. I loved this book because the reader observes Bella and Izzy mature. Izzy refuses to take off her fairy dress, while Bella acts like an ignornat snob when forced to go to the zoo with Louis at the beginning of the book. However, by the end the family is close-knit and with Sophie and Louis's help the girls grow up and realize both guardians are there for them whenever, forever, whatever.

THe Accidental Mother almost 1/3 of it

The Accidental Mother

Rowan Coleman

Quarter 2

In this book the main character, Sophie, works at a major party planning corporation in London, and has dedicated her whole life to her job--almost too much of it. Suddenly she finds out that her childhood best friend has died and she has to take care of her children, a decision she made half drunk almost 10 years earlier. I would love to tell Sophie that even though her life is changing by the second, with everything mistake the kids make or decisions she makes, to take it easy. Sophie knows that her job is in jeopardy before the children's father is found and she can work, every day, for the whole day, again. Sophie should realize that children of a close friend are more important than getting a promotion or making a lot of money. Sophie must realize that taking care of kids is not that easy, so having a man, Jake Flyn, who likes her, aid her with the kids might not be a bad thing. If Carrie's husband is not found, a huge liability is placed on Sophie and she should not make a bad impression on the kids.

The Year of the Flood Whole Book

The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood

Last Entry for the book

Quarter 1

The book was a great way of explaining how the human race and how science can make humans sympathetic, and animal-like. The gardeners learn how to survive on an earth filled with stealers, and greedy people. When a waterless flood sweeps over the human race, some Gardeners manage to survive along with Crake’s “splice people.” These humans that act like animals by surviving in while talking to each other and sharing their feelings, are evaluated and explained in the book’s prequel. Religion is weaved into the book as well, because the Gardener’s name their important leaders after Adam and Eve in the bible. Also every day, for them, is dedicated to saint and a poem from a hymnbook is read about that specific day and the workings behind it. I happened to love the book because it portrayed the world in a way normal people do not think of it. At the beginning it started with two Gardeners alone, thinking they were last living humans after the waterless flood. The chapters alternate between the two women narrating. The women then take the reader back explaining important events in their lives. Finally the stories meet when the flashbacks end and they meet each other after the waterless flood.