The Christimas Quilt – Jennifer Chiaverini 11/24/07

I thought this was a new book but it was from 2005. It was just in the New Book section of the library for some reason.
In this book, Sylvia remembered a quilt her Great Aunt Lucinda started, her mother worked on, her sister worked on and now Sarah found it and took it up. [...]

Confessor – Terry Goodkind 11/24/2007

I think that I’ll have to re-read the entire series to really “get” this book. There were just too many details, too many people that I didn’t remember.
This book did wrap it all up, though. Everyone got what was coming to them, in one way or another. Richard made some new friends [...]

Bloody Bones by Laurell K. Hamilton 11/20/07

Bloody Bones begins with Bert showing Anita photos of a construction site that is filled with bones. There is a dispute between two families as to who owns the land. One family won the legal argument because the second family couldn’t prove that there was a family burial plot on the land. It appears that [...]

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede 11/16/07

This was a cute story written for children. Princess Cimorene is a terrible princess – she doesn’t want to embroider things or learn about protocol and certainly not dance! She convinces various people in the castle to teach her fencing, cooking, Latin, magic and economics. Her parents get so frustrated with her [...]

The Lunatic Cafe by Laurell K. Hamilton

The book begins with Anita meeting a client who is looking for his wife – a lycanthrope – who is missing.  He doesn’t want to go to the police because of the publicity.  Anita refers him to Ronnie.
Then Anita goes to a date with Richard. They see “Guys and Dolls.”  Jean Claude shows up at [...]

Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton

This is the book that got me started on the LKH books. My friend’s husband said this was one of his favorite books, so I decided to read it. I found out that it was third in a series, so I read the first two and enjoyed them.
In this book, we have more Jean Claude [...]

The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton 11/10/07

I decided to end my reading slump by re-reading the Anita Blake books. First thing: these books are definitely gory. You don’t really wanna read them if you have a vivid imagination and a weak stomach.
The story begins with Anita and Bert going to visit Harold Gaynor. HG wants Anita to raise a very old [...]

Another Dry Spell

I read 6 months of Martha Stewart Living last night, a Family Fun and looked at some catalogs.  I haven’t felt like reading because it requires too much concentration.  I think I’m going to re-read the Anita Blake books since I don’t seem to be interested in any of the other things I have to [...]

The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers by Lillian Jackson Braun (audio) 11/05/07

I asked my sister to get me a book on CD from the library while she was there but I didn’t give her any instructions as to what. This is what I got. My sister loves these books – so much so that she named her cats Coco and Yum Yum. Me? [...]

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke 11/4/07

The name of this book had nothing to do with the storyline at all. I wonder if she came first or the Goldy Bear ones?
Hannah Swensen owns a cookie store in a small Minnesota town called Lake Eden. Her friend, Ron, is murdered and she decides to help out the local police – among whom [...]