Books read this week:

Books read this week:
1) Tuesdays at the Castle - by Jessica Day George / JF / ****
This was a book E3 received for Christmas.  I thought it was just darling. The description from Amazon says, "Tuesdays at Castle Glower are Princess Celie's favorite days. That's because on Tuesdays the castle adds a new room, a turret, or sometimes even an entire wing. No one ever knows what the castle will do next, and no one-other than Celie, that is-takes the time to map out the new additions. But when King and Queen Glower are ambushed and their fate is unknown, it's up to Celie, with her secret knowledge of the castle's never-ending twists and turns, to protect their home and save their kingdom."
2) Breathing Lessons by Anne Taylor / A / ***
Anne Tyler is a brilliant observer of human nature.  This is the story of a day in the life of an average, middle-class husband and wife.  Anne Tyler is the only author I've read that can write a whole novel in which nothing extraordinary happens but you are interested the whole time. Her characters are so real - they could be people in my own neighborhood.  I find myself thinking about them long after the final page is read. This book won the Pulitzer prize in 1985.
3) Tiger's Curse by Collen Houck / YA / ***
This book had so many fairy-tale stereotypes.... the main character is a plain-jane average girl who gets a temp job caring for a tiger when the circus comes to town.  Of course the tiger is really an unbelievably handsome and extremely rich Indian prince who is under a spell that only our heroine can break.  And of course the beautiful tiger prince has a handsome brother also under the same curse.  And of course they both fall in love with our average girl.  Even though it was eye-rolling typical, I have to admit I did get a kick out of reading this book and will definetly read the future books.  I couldn't give it more than three stars as the way the dialogue was written was somehow just painful.  The descriptive paragraphs were better.  But I'm not a book critic, I'm a book enjoyer. And I did enjoy this one.