January Books

I continued reading Map of Time and Shadow of Night. Still working on those. However, I did finish two books. The first is for the February book club: Moloka'i by Alan Brennert. It is sad and so heart wrenching but a very good read. It was recommended to my sister and I by one of my friends. I will write more on it after we meet for book club. The second book is One for the Money by Janet Evanovich. A couple friends of mine have been reading the series and love it. So I decided to see what it was all about. Stephanie Plum, the main character, cracks me up! I flew through the book in a matter of days and am getting the second book soon. It was just non stop laughter and goofs. It amazes me that Stephanie is still alive after everything. I would have died of mortification right away. I did start One Thousand White Women: the journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus. There is humor in the story; but May Dodd is beginning to annoy me a little with how 'cocky' she is. But I am liking the book and will hopefully finish it soon.

December Books

It looks like I haven't read anything since November. But that isn't true; I just haven't been faithful in blogging about them. In December I started up my book club again. Right now there are only three other people in it. It works though. We met right before Christmas and then are meeting again this month and going forward will hopefully be a monthly meeting.

For the book club book we read Sutton by J.R. Moehringer. It is a fictional biography of a notorious American bank robber. I don't usually read this genre so it was difficult for me to get into. But once I made myself sit and read it for a good while I started to get pulled into Sutton's life. There is a twist at the end that caught me by surprise. Honestly I almost missed it. But one of the book club members pointed it out to me.

In December I also got an application on my iPad titled 'Free Books'. I have uploaded quite a few books ranging from Abraham Lincoln's writings to Little Women to Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud. Most of the books though are science fiction and fantasy books though. I read The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I loved it! The book was a quick read written in journal format. The journalist is very descriptive and slightly full of himself but that makes it better. I have uploaded the second in the trilogy: The People That Time Forgot. I don't have this app linked to my phone so the downfall is that I have to read it only on my iPad. But that's all right. I enjoy Burroughs so far and have also uploaded Tarzan of the Apes. Eventually I would like to get these in print format. But I don't want a new edition of them so I will be checking Half Price Books and Thrift Books to find the editions I want.

During December I also continued reading The Map of Time and started the sequel to A Discovery of Witches. The Map of Time is taking me a while to get through. I should finish it soon. The story is good but doesn't keep my attention like others. Sadly Shadow of Night the sequel to Discovery isn't pulling me in like the first did. It just seems like it is dragging out and there is a lot of information centering around Matthew that I think could be left out. We'll see though as I continue reading.