Prayers for Rain

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Prayers for Rain by Deninis Lehane.  I love love this author, but he is quite graphic and there is a lot of bad language.  Everything I have read by him has just sucked me in.  I think about his books a lot after I read them - to me the sign of a great writer.  Prayers for Rain is part of a series about Private Investigators in Boston. 

Too Close to the Falls

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Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner.  A fabulous memoir of a young girl growing up near Niagara Falls.  A four she started working in her father's pharmacy - a great story of a precocious little girl.

Yes Man

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Yes Man by Danny Wallace.  I LOVE Danny Wallace - I laugh so hard when I read his books!  The other one I read was Friends Like These, I seriously cried while reading it.  They are memoirs, really, about experiments in his life.  He is English, and I love that.  Funny, funny funny!

Cause Celeb

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Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding.  I quite liked this book - about a woman who after a breakup with a guy who messed with her head ends up running a refugee camp in Africa.  When a crisis comes she has to go back to London and get help from the guy and his crazy celebrity friends.

Bridget Jones's Diary - The Edge of Reason

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Bridget Jones's Diary - The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding.  I think I forgot to list Bridget Jones's Diary in my mass list below.  I had read it before, and I could have sworn that I read The Edge of Reason before as well - but I honestly didn't remember a thing about it!  So maybe I didn't.  It was OK - more crazy Bridget that I want to strangle because she makes things so difficult.

Learning

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Learning by Karen Kingsbury.  This is a Christian author, and her books are full of God and prayer and living a clean life.  Learning is the second book in a series - the first is Leaving.  The series is about a girl who leaves her family to follow her dream on Broadway and the boy who she loves - they are broken up, he becomes a high school football coach.  Pretty good.

Outlander

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Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.  I really liked this book, but I struggled with how many cookies it would get.  It does have some disturbing and graphic scenes, and because of that I didn't want to give it my highest of 5 cookies.  But, I couldn't stop thinking about the characters and the storyline, and usually those are the reasons I give a book 5 cookies.  This book is about a woman who is transported back in time 200 years in Scotland, and is forced into marriage.  (She is already married!)  Her husband is wanted for a crime he didn't commit, and is eventually caught.  I won't say more.  There are 7 more books in the series, and I can't NOT read them - but I am nervous to.  I know that there is more time travel in the next books, and I don't want the characters to have to be apart!  I'd rather they could just be happy - but I have to know what happens!

I've Done It Again!

Oooh, I'll try to do better!  (I'll rate them if I can remember!)

1. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell 3 cookies
2. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane 4 cookies
3. Eve by Iris Johansen 3 cookies
4. The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown 4 cookies
5. The Centurion's Wife by Davis Bunn & Jenette Oke 4 cookies
6. The Hidden Flame by " 3 cookies
7. The Damascus Way by " 3 cookies
8. Minding Ben by Victoria Brown 3 cookies
9. As Husbands Go by Susan Isaacs 4 cookies
10. Devious by Lisa Jackson
11. Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy 3 cookies
12. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan 3 cookies
13. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness 5 cookies
14. Mobbed by Carol Higgins Clark
15. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare 4 cookies
16. Save Me by Lisa Scottline 4 cookies
17. Friends Like These by Danny Wallace 5 cookies
18. Night Road by Kristin Hannah 3 cookies
19. Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin 3 cookies
20. Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich 4 cookies
21. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare 5 cookies
22. Tigerlily's Orchids by Ruth Rundell 3 cookies
23. Lost in Shangri-la by Mitchell Zuckoff 4 cookies
24. Soulless by Gail Carriger 3 cookies
25. Something Blue by Emily Giffin 4 cookies
26. River Marked by Patricia Briggs 4 cookies
27. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 5 COOKIES LOVED IT!
28. Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz and David Hayward 3 cookies
29. Tick Tock by James Patterson 3 cookies
30. Sticky Fingers by Nancy Martin
31. Dreams of Joy by Lisa See 4 cookies
32. I'll Walk Alone by Mark Higgins Clark
33. The Goodbye Quilt by Susan Wiggs 3 cookies
34. I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore 4 cookies
35. Baby Proof by Emily Giffin 4 cookies
36. The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippman 3 cookies
37. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks 4 cookies
38. The Brides House by Sandra Dallas 3 cookies
39. The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason 3 cookies
40. The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan 4 cookies
41. Born To Die by Lisa Jackson 4 cookies
42. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson 5 cookies
43. Best Staged Plans by Claire Cook 4 cookies
44. Must Love Dogs by " 4 cookies
45. Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews 4 cookies
46. Leaving by Karen Kingsbury 4 cookies
47. Heat Wave by Nancy Thayer 4 cookies
48. Seven Year Switch by Claire Cook 4 cookies
49. One Tuesday Morning, Beyond Tuesday Morning, Every Now and Then (Series) by Karen Kingsbury 4 cookies
50. The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm by Nancy Farmer 4 cookies