What am I Reading?

I have not posted a "What am I Reading" entry since September! I'm still not reading as much as usual, but I have read a few things in the past couple of months.


Talk Me Down was a cute story by Victoria Dahl. It's about a woman who moves back to town after being gone for a while, but she brings back a secret past. She has been writing erotic novels, but doesn't want her family or anyone else to know what she's been doing. Romance with the local chief of police, lots of local gossip about what she might be doing, and a crazed stalker can be found.

 

 

Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading is another of the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl books. It's a clever story written in Charlie Joe Jackson's point of view. He hates reading and the whole book is about the trouble he got into because he wasn't reading. 

 

 

Rescued by a Ranger is Tanya Michael's latest. Tanya is in my local book club, so I always try to read her latest books. It is the 3rd in Tanya's "Hill Country Heroes" books. It's about a single mother who moves next to the local sheriff. She's living under a false identity to keep away from her dead estranged husband's family who have threatened to take her child. It was a fun, easy read.

 



 

 

I was so excited to read Mary Kay Andrew's newest book, Spring Fever.  The book starts at a wedding. It's the wedding of the lead character's ex-husband to the new woman in his life. However, the wedding is interrupted and feelings have changed. It was well paced and very entertaining. 

 

 

The Luck of the Buttons by Anne Ylvisaker is another book for the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl. It's about a young girl in 1929 named Tug Buttons. It was well written and did a very good job of bringing 1929 Iowa to life. 

 

 

I love the Pendergast series by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. This was a short story that was written to appease me and their other readers until their next title comes out in a few days. These are so not my usual chick lit/romance type books. The Pendergast books are an FBI/Police/Serial Murder themed stories which I just can't put down. 

 

 

Man's Best Friend was recommended to me on Amazon. I was hoping it would be as good as Kristin Higgin's books (dog on the cover connection), but it fell short. I enjoyed it, but felt that it was lacking a bit. 

 

 

And finally, I read the most recent Janet Evanovich book. The first ones in the series were the best, and by the time we got up there in the numbers, the stories were weak and even a bit silly. The last one was much better and this one was up there, too. I am still not satisfied with the relationships with the men in Stephanie Plum's life!  

 

 

Happy Reading!!