Vacation Reading....

Happy New Year! I can't wait to see what fantastic books are published this year!

While I was away on my trip, I was able to log some major reading time. I started with Whitney Lyles novel, First Comes Love. I moved on to read the best selling book, The Shack. I read and highly recommend Ann Rule's latest true crime collection called Mortal Danger. I love her writing, the forensics, and mystery of whats going to happen. Her books are so good. And sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. I quickly zipped through that book which I bought at the airport, along with a new Shape magazine and a Self. And an Egg McMuffin.

I read James Patterson's Double Cross, Nicholas Sparks's The Choice. I had wanted to read the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time for a while. I heard mixed reviews about the novel but I really liked it. A quick and intriguing read with a main character that's quite different.

I read Maggie Marr's Hollywood Girl's Club and Secrets of the Hollywood Girl's Club- more about these books later.



Next up was Holly Shumas's Love and Other Natural Disasters. A pregnant woman discovers her husband is having an emotional affair with his coworker. The book addresses issues of trust, betrayal, love and is written by a marriage/family therapist...so she knows a thing or two about relationships. Holly delves full throttle into the range of emotions in finding out a most painful truth.

Because I ran out of books to read, my mother in law brought me to her local library, an old tiny place. I pulled a book off the shelf at random and didn't realize until I began to read that it was a Christian book. It was very cute, a fast read, a light and sweet novel called A Mile in My Flip Flops by Melody Carlson. Here's the deal- a kindergarten teacher decides to earn some quick cash by renovating a fixer upper. Everything she learned about house flipping she's learned from watching HGTV ..needless to say the character gets in over her head but don't fear, there's a happy conclusion.

I read Maggie Marr's books about Hollywood called The Hollywood Girls Club and Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club- more about these books later.

Next up was Holly Shumas's Love and Other Natural Disasters is about a pregnant woman who discovers her husband is having an emotional affair with his coworker. The book addresses issues of trust, betrayal, love and is written by a marriage/family therapist...so she knows a thing or two about relationships.

My favorite book read over my trip was Alison Pace's novel called City Dog. The book centers around Amy, a divorced children's book author who writes about the ficticious adventures of her Westie, Carlie. Amy is offered the chance to star in a tv show alongside Carlie and that's when the plot thickens and Amy's life takes a turn. I highly recommend this book which is written in such a thoughtful, funny way by a fabulous author.