Read With Me #2

Welcome to week 2 of Read With Me. I was pleased to see a couple of you linking up with me last week, I have now added those book suggestions to my "to read" list.

If you are new to this linky, first of all let me say hello and thanks for popping by.

Secondly please do have a read here about what this linky is all about and why I started it.

So last week I read the book 'Running Barefoot' written by Amy Harmon.

Having read one of her books previously, I was expecting good things and she didn't disappoint.

The story follows Josie Jensen who at the age of 9 lost her mother and ends up growing up very fast, looking after both her brothers and her father, she becomes more like and adult than a child.

Along her journey she we find out that she is musically gifted, playing piano, a truely clever young girl.



At the age of thirteen she forms an unlikely friendship with eighteen year old Native AMerican Navajo, Samuel, helping him through a dark and destructive phase that hee is going through at that time.

When Samuel graduates high school he leaves the small town they live in to join the Marines, Josie is left behind to get on with her life.

I don't want to say too much as I feel you should read the book yourself and have a chance to really connect with the characters.

This book is beautifully romantic.

It is full of emotion, both happy and sad, it really takes you on an emotional roller coaster.

I was left laughing at times whilst at others I was left with tears in my eyes.

The story builds at a brilliant pace and I was left not able to put my kindle down as I just needed to see how everything ended.

Whilst reading you are learning, Amy gives you an insight into the Navajo way of life and you are taught many things about classical music and the composers behind the songs.

I found myself living the story with the characters, it really tugged on my heart strings.

Now over to you lot. Please do come and link up with your posts, let me know what you have been reading, perhaps a book you love to read again and again or even a post to tell people about a book that just didn't live up to your expectations.

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