Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Book review of The Rites and wrongs of Janice Wills

Title: The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills    
Author: Joanna Pearson
Series:   no
Chapters: 23
Pages: 224
Genre: teen chick lit
Rating:  4 ½ stars 9.5/10

     Is a cute book for teens to read and rather short. Unlike most teen books for girls it

Monday, September 19, 2011

post that should have gone up Sunday

Finished
 Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

Currnetly reading

Roadside Assistance by Amy Clipston
 The Doctor's Family By Lenora Worth
Soul Surfer Devotions by Bethany Hamilton
His Country Girl by Jillian Hart
The Wilder Life By Wendy McClure
 All that’s Bitter and Sweet  By Ashley Judd

Getting ready to read

Nightshade by Ronie Kendig
Paid in Blood by Mel Odom
Too Close to Home  Lynette Eason
Sketchy Behavior by Erynn Mangum


reading for school
The Working Poor  by David K. Shipper
CJ 2011 (My Crime Kit series by James A Fagin
Interplay: The Process of Interpersonal Communication by: Ronald B Adler
Psychology A Journey by Dennis Coon

Audio on the way to school
papertown by John Green

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Book review of what happened to goodbye

Title: What happened to Goodbye?
Author: Sarah Dessen   
Series:   no
Chapters: 18
Pages: 402
Genre: teen chick lit
Rating:  4 ½ stars
     What happened to Goodbye is another book by Sarah Dessen that I enjoyed. It is a teen book that is a clean read. There are  a few curse words in it, but that’s it.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

reading list

Finshed
500 Acres and No Place to Hide: More Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl
by Susan McCorkindale
Pick your Poison by Leann Sweeney mystery


Currnetly reading
Roadside Assistance by Amy Clipston
 The Doctor's Family By Lenora Worth
Soul Surfer Devotions by Bethany Hamilton


Getting ready to read
Nightshade by Ronie Kendig
Paid in Blood by Mel Odom
River's Song by Melody Carlson
His Country Girl by Jillian Hart
Too Close to Home  Lynette Eason
Sketchy Behavior by Erynn Mangum
Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

reading for school
The Working Poor  by David K. Shipper
CJ 2011 (My Crime Kit series by James A Fagin
Interplay: The Process of Interpersonal Communication by: Ronald B Adler
Psychology A Journey by Dennis Coon

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Review of Cleopatra Confesses

Title: Cleopatra Confesses
Author: Carolyn Meyer
Series:   no
Chapters: 54 plus Epilogue
Pages: 288
Genre: teen historical fiction
Rating: 4 stars  
     Told from Cleopatra’s point of view from the time see was 13 till her earlier twenties. The book starts out with an older Cleopatra on the eve of her death reflecting on her life and the choices that she made, both good and bad.  The library and the bookstores classify it as a teen book, but with what’s implied in the book I would say older teen and adult.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

My reading list

 Finshed

The Colonel's Lady by Laura Frantz
The Dying Breathe Alane Ferguson
Somebdoy Everybody listens to  Suzanne Supplee

Currnetly reading
Roadside Assistance by Amy Clipston
500 Acres and No Place to Hide: More Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl by Susan McCorkindale
 Too Close to Home  Lynette Eason
The Doctor's Family By Lenora Worth
Soul Surfer Devotions by Bethany Hamilton
Sketchy Behavior by Erynn Mangum

Getting ready to read
Nightshade by Ronie Kendig
Paid in Blood by Mel Odom
River's Song by Melody Carlson
His Country Girl by Jillian Hart

reading for school
The Working Poor  by David K. Shipper
CJ 2011 (My Crime Kit series by James A Fagin
Interplay: The Process of Interpersonal Communication by: Ronald B Adler
Psychology A Journey by Dennis Coon




Saturday, September 3, 2011

Book review of The Colonel's lady

Title: The Colonel’s Lady
Author: Laura Frantz
Series:   no
Chapters: 39 plus Epilogue
Pages: 408
Genre: Christian Historical Fiction
Rating:  5 stars 10/10
     The Colonel’s Lady is the third book by Laura Frantz. The book was everything that I thought it would be and more. The Colonel’s Lady is a little different than her other two books. The Heroine is a little older than Lael and Morrow, and the hero is a little rougher around the edges than her other hero’s.
     Roxanna Rowan arrives at a Kentucky fort to join her solider father only to find that her father has died. She has nowhere to go, no money and sees herself as a spinster. Colonel Cassius McLinn commander of the fort offers her, her father’s job as a scrivener until others arrangements can be made.  Both Roxanna and Cassius end up developing feelings for each other, but they are both to afraid to voice their love. The colonel also has a secret that could destroy everything. Will Cass and Roxie have a chance at love?
     The character of Colonel Cassius McLinn according to the author is loosely based on Colonel George Roger’s Clark, because she wanted to give Clark a different ended. I know this sounds bad but Clark was never one of my favorites from history and I don’t really know why; he help found my hometown, and I’ve been to his final home in Kentucky twice. Once as a kindergarten student on a field trip and the second time for my college history class. To me he was never as interesting as Daniel Boone.
     With each of Laura’s previous books there where bits and pieces that I loved more than others. With The Frontiersman’s Daughter I loved the fact that Lael was a bit of a free spirit. I could see Kentucky history with Fort Click and Ezekiel Click. With Courting Morrow Little I loved the love story.
     With The Colonel’s Lady I loved the whole book. I know this sounds bad but I think Roxie has become my new favorite character. Mainly I think it is because I can relate to her more; even though I am not as old as Roxie I am older than both Lael and Morrow where. Being the daughter of a former Marine I could relate to Roxie’s fear for her father before she knew he had died.  It was nice to see an Irish hero in a book.    The Colonel’s Lady is my new favorite book by Laura Frantz, and I can’t wait to next year to see what else she has come up with.