I am finally caught up :) For the book challenge I participate in I decided to list all the books in one posting at the end of the month and figured I would do the same and update here monthly as well. Unfortuantely I seem to forget to update one or both and I had been behind all year.
After reading 9 books in January and then 6 books in February, I had expected to keep up with that momentum. I guess my brain had other plans. I have been quite lazy all around the last month. On March 2nd I found out I had strep and a double ear infection. That seemed to spiral out of control and I ended up sick for 29 days! I couldn't believe it. My life revolved around attempting to stay awake long enough to work and then sleep. I was moody and cranky and tired. I am so happy to finally be rid of it. Hopefully that will be enough to last me the year. I hate feeling yucky! Anyway, even the husband suffered during that time ~ I have been on a cooking strike nearly a month. I feel like between work, planning our move, being sick, overtime and school I am barely keeping afloat. Hopefully once we move and get settled I'll be able to take a breath and focus on getting through some more reads through a week. Im also starting some charity crochet/knit projects ~ but those are perfect for audio books! (And woohoo for the library having unabridged audio ~ It feels less like cheating when its unabridged!)
Here is the short list for March.
16. Ive Got Your Number ~ Sophie Kinsella
I really liked this story. At times I wanted to shake Poppy because she was really whiney, overall it was a cute predictable British Chick Lit book!
More and more I dislike James Patterson books. I dont know if it just irks me to know that he isnt actually penning the books himself and I dont like the collaborators of certain books, or if the writing is getting more and more generic and the plots are startin to run together. This book followed a wrongly accused story in France. I cant help but read his work since I have read nearly every book he has written but I may just stick with the series Im committed to and stop reading his other works.
18. Then She Found Me ~ Eilnor Lipman
This story could have been a dark and sad book, but it was a pretty light read. I enjoyed the story. This book follows the story of an adopted child now woman who is found by her birth mother. The birth mother is ridiculously excentric and over the top, but there is something that makes you want to like her at the same time that you want to hate her.
19. Die For Your ~ Lisa Marie Unger
I first found Lisa Unger after getting my Nook. One of her books was on the Free Fridays and I loved it! It is the Ridley Scott series. This was available at the library so I figured I'd give it a try ~ Total Snooze Fest! I found it drawn out and boring. I agree with the description below saying there were too many subplots that were unnecessary. I wouldnt recommend. Anyone recommend any of her other books?
After reading 9 books in January and then 6 books in February, I had expected to keep up with that momentum. I guess my brain had other plans. I have been quite lazy all around the last month. On March 2nd I found out I had strep and a double ear infection. That seemed to spiral out of control and I ended up sick for 29 days! I couldn't believe it. My life revolved around attempting to stay awake long enough to work and then sleep. I was moody and cranky and tired. I am so happy to finally be rid of it. Hopefully that will be enough to last me the year. I hate feeling yucky! Anyway, even the husband suffered during that time ~ I have been on a cooking strike nearly a month. I feel like between work, planning our move, being sick, overtime and school I am barely keeping afloat. Hopefully once we move and get settled I'll be able to take a breath and focus on getting through some more reads through a week. Im also starting some charity crochet/knit projects ~ but those are perfect for audio books! (And woohoo for the library having unabridged audio ~ It feels less like cheating when its unabridged!)
Here is the short list for March.
16. Ive Got Your Number ~ Sophie Kinsella
I really liked this story. At times I wanted to shake Poppy because she was really whiney, overall it was a cute predictable British Chick Lit book!
I’ve lost it. :( The only thing in the world I wasn’t supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It’s been in Magnus’s family for three generations. And now the very same day his parents are coming, I’ve lost it. The very same day! Do not hyperventilate, Poppy. Stay positive :) !!17. Guilty Wives ~ James Patterson
Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her “happily ever after” begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect!
Well, perfect except that the phone’s owner, businessman Sam Roxton, doesn’t agree. He wants his phone back and doesn’t appreciate Poppy reading his messages and wading into his personal life.
What ensues is a hilarious and unpredictable turn of events as Poppy and Sam increasingly upend each other’s lives through emails and text messages. As Poppy juggles wedding preparations, mysterious phone calls, and hiding her left hand from Magnus and his parents . . . she soon realizes that she is in for the biggest surprise of her life. (Amazon.com)
More and more I dislike James Patterson books. I dont know if it just irks me to know that he isnt actually penning the books himself and I dont like the collaborators of certain books, or if the writing is getting more and more generic and the plots are startin to run together. This book followed a wrongly accused story in France. I cant help but read his work since I have read nearly every book he has written but I may just stick with the series Im committed to and stop reading his other works.
No husbands allowed
Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and beyond, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known.
What happened last night?
In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened--something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime--for survival. GUILTY WIVES is the ultimate indulgence, the kind of nonstop joy-ride of excess, friendship, betrayal, and danger that only James Patterson can create. (Amazon.com)
18. Then She Found Me ~ Eilnor Lipman
This story could have been a dark and sad book, but it was a pretty light read. I enjoyed the story. This book follows the story of an adopted child now woman who is found by her birth mother. The birth mother is ridiculously excentric and over the top, but there is something that makes you want to like her at the same time that you want to hate her.
Meet April Epner, the serious, scholarly, adopted daughter of two equally staid parents. They die, but April finds that she's far from orphaned when her birth mother, Bernice Graverman, comes to claim April's heart and improve her wardrobe and love life, too. April is a Latin teacher, given to wearing flannel jumpers. Bernice is hostess of a third-rate daytime talk show and wears designer labels and toad-sized earrings. She descends upon April's quiet life with the tact of a size-six locust, and the delightful and surprising results of this unlikely reunion will keep you turning pages long after bedtime.
19. Die For Your ~ Lisa Marie Unger
I first found Lisa Unger after getting my Nook. One of her books was on the Free Fridays and I loved it! It is the Ridley Scott series. This was available at the library so I figured I'd give it a try ~ Total Snooze Fest! I found it drawn out and boring. I agree with the description below saying there were too many subplots that were unnecessary. I wouldnt recommend. Anyone recommend any of her other books?
Thriller author Unger's intriguing if overstuffed stand-alone introduces a tough and grudgingly vulnerable heroine who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, even if it threatens to tear apart her life. Isabel Connelly, a bestselling novelist, and her loving husband, Marcus Raine, a computer game designer, have it all, including an elegant prewar apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. When Marcus doesn't come home one night, Isabel goes to his office, where she's confronted by a dozen people with weapons drawn. Det. Grady Crowe later informs Isabel that not only is her husband missing but he's been lying about his past, having stolen the real Marcus Raine's identity years earlier. Despite a text from Marcus urging her to forget about him, Isabel vows to track him down. Usually adept at juggling multiple plot lines, Unger (Black Out) dilutes Isabel's story with point-of-view shifts and unnecessary subplots, including one about Crowe's marital woes. (June) (Amazon.com)
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