Review of The Reading Promise

Title: The Reading Promise

Author: Alice Ozma

Series:   no

Chapters: 30

Pages: 279

Genre: non-fiction biography

Rating:  5 stars

     Alice and her father decide to set a goal to read for 100 nights. Once they meet that goal, they decide to continue the streak. The date that they agree to stop on is the day that Alice goes away to college.  Every from ninth grade until she goes to college they read.

     I really enjoyed the book I found I could relate to the author expect in my case it was my mom who read to me every night; according to her from the time I was born till I started high school.  The Reading Promise was a book that my and I read together.  It’s one of those books that parents and kids can read together.

Reading this week

Finished

The Wilder Life By Wendy McClure

Currently reading

Roadside Assistance by Amy Clipston

 The Doctor's Family By Lenora WorthSoul Surfer Devotions by Bethany Hamilton

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
Growing Up Colt by Colt McCoy

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 schoolBetween Sundays by Karen Kingsbury

Fall Reading Challenge Fall Into Reading 2011

 Fall Into Reading 2011

Books to read this fall

·         Nightshade Ronie Kendig

·         An Eye for an eye Irene Hannon

·         Stand –In Groom Kaye Dacus

·         The Amish Nanny Mindy Starns Clark Leslie Gould

·         Heidi Johanna Spyri

·         Sketchy Behavior Erynn Mangum

·         Love Starts with Elle Rachel Hauck

·         The Cubicle Next Door Siri Mitchell

·         Paid in Blood Mel Odom

·         Double Take Melody Carlson

·         Love finds you in Humble Texas

·         Too Close to Home Lynette Eason

·         Heist Society (Heist Society)  Ally Carter

·         The Brotherhood Jerry B. Jenkins

·         Double Minds by Terri Blackstock

Non-fiction to read

·         Growing up Colt by Colt McCoy

·         King of the Cowboys by Ty Murray

·         A Woman’s Passionate Pursuit of God: Creating a Positive and Purposeful life by Karol Ladd

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Books to finish reading this fall

·         Roadside Assistance Amy Clipston

·         Soul Surfer Devotions Bethany Hamilton

·         All that’s Bitter and Sweet Ashley Judd

·         The Wilder life by Wendy McClure

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·         CJ 2011 James A Fagin

·         Interplay: The Process of Interpersonal Communication Ronald Adler

·         Psychology a Journey Dennis Coon

·         The Working Poor: Invisible in American David K shipler

Other goals

·         Read through my TBR pile of Love inspired books make it through at least 5

·         Read through the pile of country weekly magazines that I have

·         Read at least three mysteries

·         Listen to at least three audio books in the car on the way to school and home from school.

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

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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

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.

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

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.

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

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.