Where'd you go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears.

Written in several points of view, Bernadette, her husband Elgin and daughter Bee.  As well as her enemies from the school Bee attends.  This story makes you want to read to the end.  I enjoyed the majority of the book but felt that the final chapter was not the outcome I expected.  It was a bit of a let-down and had a more juvenile feel to it.  But I still enjoyed it and glad that I listened to it on CD as the readings of emails is hysterical!

I have not posted a book in so long!  Not because I haven't read but just been lazy about posting.  Most of my reading has been listening to books in the car so it's been awhile since I've just held a book and read it cover to cover.  

Returned by Jason Mott

Now an show on ABC called Resurrection which I've seen a couple of episodes so it made me want to read the book.

It was extremely powerful and more moving than I expected.  What would you do if your loved ones returned from the dead exactly the same while you have aged and moved on with your life.  Well this starts happening all over the world.  Even more fascinating is there is no reason of who returns and while many do not.  Plus they might come back in a completely different country, Jacob died 50 years ago at the age of 8 years old in Arcadia but returns in China.  A FBI agent returns him to his parents, Howard and Lucille, who have to decide to keep him or not.   The town they live in becomes the base camp of the returned (at first not wanted) but then where the government forces all returned to live.   When it becomes apparent that there are more returned than living people the living start taking radical action.  Lucille and Howard decide to take a stand no matter the outcome.

Beautifully written and while not the most uplifting book I really enjoyed it.  It made me pause and think who would I want to come back.