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I have been wanting to talk about these books for weeks, but am way behind because for some reason Blogger keeps rejecting my "book talk" html coding format. I personally like my former format because I use the length of the image as a guide as to how much I say. (It keeps me from becoming too wordy.) Each time I insert the code the images bounce around the page like monkeys on crack and I say bad words.
I didn't realize I had read so many books this month until I pulled together the pictures for this post. If you are reading this blog for the first time, I hope you will check out other books I have reviewed: a few memorable books HERE and September/October books HERE.
While I had read a couple of these books before leaving, the majority of these were read during our two-week trip to Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota over Thanksgiving. One of the best things about two weeks of traveling in snow, ice, and single digits is the amount of reading you get done while buried under a mound of blankets in your motel room trying to keep blood flow to your frozen extremities. The weather outside was frightful, but a few of these books were delightful.
(Sorry, I went there.)
This is an open letter to Jodi Picoult regarding her new book Leaving Time. My only advice is that if you read it, drink a shot each time the phrase temporal secretions is used. It won't make the book better, but you won't care by the time you get to the ridiculous ending.
Before a new season of Top Chef and Housewives of Somewhere I Can't Afford suck me in I decided to review the books I've read in the past few weeks. These aren't new books so you may have read them, too. (If so, let's talk!)
The only one I disliked was, of course, the only one I purchased. Since I had invested money in it I felt like I had to finish it. If I had checked it out from the library like all the others, I would have quit in the middle and moved on to the next book guilt-free. (I wonder how many divorced couples wish they could have checked their spouse out from the library instead of ...nevermind.)
Moving on to the reviews:
Recently on Facebook there was a post circulating asking people to share ten favorite books. The challenge instructed that you weren't to think too deeply about it, but just go with the books that first came to your mind. I skipped over it initially because for me to pick a few favorite books makes my head explode.
Then my avid-reader friend, Kay, tagged me in a post asking for friends to make suggestions and I bit the bullet. I decided to list the first books I thought of even if they aren't necessarily the best books I've ever read or my favorites. It was interesting to see which books popped into my head. Some were favorites. Some were frustrating. Some were disturbing. I noticed that almost all of them are ones that I wanted to discuss with someone after I finished them.
These are listed in alphabetical order. I didn't list them according to the order that I liked them or even in the order I thought of them.
