I am always on the hunt for a good book, I trust People Magazines lists every week and most of those books are always added to my queue in the Nook, but I also like to hear what my friends are reading, it is always fun to share thought on a book together with someone else who is reading or has read the same book. Since Shawn isn't a reader it is usually Nikki I am tormenting with PLEASE READ THIS BOOK WITH ME request but I also read peoples Blogs and like to see their input on books.
I really don't have a TYPE of book since I got the Nook because it is so easy to get anything I want, not just popular new releases that I always spend WAY too much money on the hardcover...anyway as I sit here at work, waiting to put Mitch to bed I decided since I use other people blogs to get book ideas I could help some people out and review a few of the books I have been reading so here is goes ....
My current read:
Synopsis:
Leggy, headstrong Amy Henderson set out for Hollywood after leaving her best friend Mona in the lurch back in their crummy hometown in upstate New York, but she wasn’t a hopeful starlet; she wanted to be a special-effects guru like her hero, Ray Harryhausen. Instead, she was electrocuted on the job, and the messy business of interpreting the significance of her life and a cryptic postcard addressed to Mona falls to her aggrieved husband, Arthur Rook.
Unless something awful happens I think this is going to be put on Nikki's must read list because I really want someone to talk about this book with!!
Just Finished:
I somehow missed that this was a book set in London so I didn't understand a lot of the humor in it, and overall I just found it boring and slow.
Synopsis:
In 1988, the day after commencement, two college graduates briefly, romantically collide. The girl has pined for the boy for years; the boy is more aware of the girl than he lets on. She’s an earnest, outspoken lefty, he a handsome, apolitical toff who “liked the word ‘bourgeois’ and all that it implied” and “wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.” Their chemistry is as inarguable as their differences, but because of the pride, carelessness and misplaced optimism of youth, they let time and distraction separate them. Yet they never lose track of each other. “One Day” checks in on their intersecting lives once a year, every July 15, from 1988 through 2007.
I do have to say even reading this synopsis shows that this book had so much potential and makes me want to read it, but I warn you DON'T it just doesn't hold up to what this breif re-cap makes you think would be a FANTASTIC book! A side note: The ending is awful!
Book #3:
Synopsis:
The heroine is Addie Downs, a 33-year-old greeting card illustrator in the Chicago suburbs who has spent her adult life taking care of troubled family members and who now lives alone in her childhood home with fresh memories of dismal blind dates. The story starts in earnest when Addie's childhood best friend, Valerie, a beautiful blond weatherperson on "Chicago's third-rated TV station" whom she hasn't spoken to since high school, appears on her doorstep one cold evening, upset and bloodstained.
The story isn't dark and soon turns to themes of: loneliness, friendship, the search for love, the struggles of mothers and daughters, and the sheer misery of being a fat girl in a thin girl's world.
Book #4:
Synopsis:
After a car accident in which her passenger, Marissa, dies, June Parker finds herself in possession of a list Marissa has written: "20 Things to Do by My 25th Birthday." The tasks range from inspiring (run a 5K) to daring (go braless) to near-impossible (change someone's life).
To assuage her guilt, June races to achieve each goal herself before the deadline, learning more about her own life than she ever bargained for.
And lastly because this has ended up being much longer than I intended, these late nights make for a lot of free time, and this is very calming at a sometimes stressful job!
These next books are all by the same author ... they are all your typical romantic book, where the ending is almost always guessed LONG before the book is over and ALWAYS have you rooting for the heroine and wanting to see her get everything she wants! I think I LOVED these books because there is always an animal involved, and if you look at the cover it is almost as if the animal is supposed to be one of the main characters. I LOVED all these book and am just waiting for her to release more. They are almost all the same "type" of book but VERY different storys!!
Lucy Lang isn’t looking for fireworks. She’s looking for a nice, decent man. Someone who’ll mow the lawn, flip chicken on the barbeque, teach their future children to play soccer. But most important… someone who won’t inspire the slightest stirring in her heart…or anywhere else. A young widow, Lucy can’t risk that kind of loss again. But sharing her life with a cat named Fat Mikey and the Black Widows at the family bakery isn’t enough either. So it’s goodbye to Ethan, her hot but entirely inappropriate “friend with privileges” and hello to a man she can marry.
Too bad Ethan Mirabelli isn’t going anywhere. As far as he’s concerned, what she needs might be right under her nose. But can he convince her that the next best thing can really be forever?
When Grace Emerson's ex-fiancé starts dating her younger sister, extreme measures are called for. To keep everyone from obsessing about her love life, Grace announces that she's seeing someone. Someone wonderful. Someone handsome. Someone completely made up. Who is this Mr. Right? Someone…exactly unlike her renegade neighbor Callahan O'Shea. Well, someone with his looks, maybe. His hot body. His knife-sharp sense of humor. His smarts and big heart.
Whoa. No. Callahan O'Shea is not her perfect man! Not with his unsavory past. So why does Mr. Wrong feel so…right?
Rewarding job as a local doctor on Cape Cod? Check. Cute cottage of her very own? Check. Adorable puppy suitable for walks past attractive locals? Check! All she needs is for golden boy and former crush Joe Carpenter to notice her, and Millie will be set.
But perfection isn't as easy as it looks--especially when Sam Nickerson, a local policeman, is so distracting. Sure, he needs a friend after being dumped by Millie's fortune-hunting sister, but does she really need to enjoy his company that much? He is definitely not part of her master plan. But maybe it's time for Millie to start a new list…
Being one of the guys isn't all it's cracked up to be.
So when journalist Chastity O'Neill returns to her hometown, she decides it's time to start working on some of those feminine wiles. Two tiny problems: #1 - she's five feet eleven inches of rock-solid girl power, and #2 - she's cursed with four alpha male older brothers.
While doing a story on local heroes, she meets a hunky doctor and things start to look up. Now there's only one problem: Trevor Meade, her first love and the one man she's never quite gotten over - although he seems to have gotten over her just fine.
Yet the more time she spends with Dr. Perfect, the better Trevor looks. But even with the in-your-face competition, the irresistible Trevor just can't seem to see Chastity as anything more than just one of the guys..
I was going to go through and say my order of favorite of these 4 books but looking back I loved them all so much I want you to read every last one of them!!
I LOVE reading and hope to continue to keep people, whoever is actually reading this thing, up to speed on some of the good, and some of the bad, books that I manage to read through even though I have a husband who thinks books are a waste of time!
Hope someone found something they want to read!!
Enjoy!
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