Learning

4 cookies
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

5 cookies
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

Fragile

4 cookies
Fragile by Lisa Unger. A great book about choices and relationships. I liked it.

Between Sisters

4 cookies
Between Sisters by Kristen Hannah. Another Kristen Hannah book - I liked this one about two sisters with a strained relationship.

Those Who Save Us

3 1/2 cookies
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum. Very interesting story about the German women during World War II - but very graphic and I'm not recommending it.

Spindle's End

4 cookies
Spindle's End by Robin McKinley. I really like Robin McKinley's books. She creates such interesting worlds. This is a spin on "Sleeping Beauty".

Angel Falls

4 cookies
Angel Falls by Kristen Hannah. Pretty good, a woman hits her head and goes into a coma, and wakes with missing memory - interesting.

Firefly Lane

4 cookies
Firefly Lane by Kristen Hannah. After reading Winter Garden and loving it, I'm reading some of Kristen Hannah's earlier books. I'm not quite as impressed with them as I was Winter Garden, but they are still good. Some bad language. This book was good and sad - a thirty year chronicle of two women's friendship.

Moonlight Mile

4 cookies
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane. I'm always slightly disturbed by Dennis Lehane's books, but I always think about them for a long time, and I'm always sucked right into the stories. This is the sequel to Gone Baby Gone, and I didn't like it quite as well, but I liked seeing what happened to the characters from the first book. Be warned of graphic details and language.

Dragonhaven

4 cookies
Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley. I loved this book. But, I love books about dragons. This is a pretty typical dragon book, with a few twists that I really liked. A fourteen your old boy becomes a surrogate mom to a baby dragon. I'm hoping that sometime she will write a sequel.

Boy, am I behind

Wow, I haven't updated this in SO LONG! It's time to catch up - and I will really try to not get behind again. I do have a list of the book I have read, from my reading history at the library website, but I don't remember well what they were about, or sometimes even if I liked them. If I remember I will put cookies, but other than that don't expect much.

1. Witch and wizard by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet - 4 cookies


2. Squirrel seeks chipmunk: A modest bestiary by David Sedaris - 2 cookies (This book was slightly disturbing and dark.)


3. Wicked appetite by Janet Evanovich - 4 cookies (Love her!)


4. Loser's town by Daniel Depp -3 cookies


5. Babylon nights by Daniel Depp (sequel to Loser's town, I didn't like it and didn't finish it - no rating)


6. 102 minutes: the untold story of the fight to survive inside the twin towers by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn - 5 cookies (emotional and vivid)


7. The lost hero by Rick Riordan (1st book in a new series by the author of The lightning thief) - 5 cookies


8. Safe haven by Nicholas Sparks - 4 cookies


9. One day by David Nicholls - 4 cookies (made me cry)


10. The reversal by Michael Connelly - 4 cookies


11. Matched by Ally Condie - 4 cookies


12. The confession by John Grisham (this book really frustrated me, but still liked it) - 4 cookies


13. What the night knows by Dean Koontz (I've never read him before) - 3 1/2 cookies


14. Entice by Carrie Jones (3rd in series) - 4 cookies


15. Tough Customer by Sandra Brown - 3 cookies


16. Size 12 is not fat: A Heather Wells mystery by Meg Cabot - 5 cookies


17. The capture by Kathryn Lasky - 3 cookies


18. Hell's Corner by David Baldacci - 4 cookies


19. The healer's apprentice by Melanie Dickerson - 4 cookies


20. Size 14 is not fat either: A Heather Wells mystery by Meg Cabot - 5 cookies


21. Big boned: A Heather Wells mystery by Meg Cabot- 4 cookies


22. The atlas of love by Laurie Frankel - 5 cookies


23. Secrets to the grave by Tami Hoag - 4 cookies


24. The lost gate : a novel of the mither mages by Orson Scott Card - 5 cookies


25. Wicked Lies by Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush - ? cookies


26. I'd know you anywhere by Laura Lippman - 4 cookies


27. Call me irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips - 4 cookies


28. The red garden by Alice Hoffman - 3 cookies


29. Always the baker, never the bride by Sandra D. Bricker - 4 cookies


30. What the dead know by Laura Lippman - 3 cookies


31. Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card - 5 cookies


32. The way of kings by Brandon Sanderson - 5 cookies


33. Pegasus by Robin McKinley - 4 cookies


34. Little Princes : one man's promise to bring home the lost children of Nepal by Conor Grennan - 5 cookies


35. Winter's bone by Daniel Woodrell - 3 1/2 cookies


36. The inner circle by Brad Meltzer - 4 cookies


37. The neighbors are watching by Debra Ginsberg - 3 cookies


38. The gift by James Patterson and Ned Rust - 3 cookies


39. Galore by Michael Crummey - 3 cookies


40. A world without heros (Beyonders) by Brandon Mull - 4 cookies


41. Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah (I had forgotten that I read this before, but I liked it and read it again) 4 cookies


42. Winter garden by Kristin Hannah - 5 cookies
    

The Graveyard Book

5 cookies
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Loved this book, about a boy raised in a graveyard by ghosts, and a guardian who seems to be a vampire. Very sweet, despite the morbidness of the setting.

Wicked Appetite

4 cookies
Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich. This seems to be the first in a new series starring Diesel from a couple of the Stephanie Plum novels. It was cute and funny like all of her books.

Mini Shopaholic

4 cookies
Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella. The latest in the Shopaholic series, I liked it. Becky and her daughter Minnie off on adventures.

Chasing Harry Winston

4 cookies
Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberg. This is the author of The Devil Wears Prada, and it was a good chick lit book. 3 friends and the changes in their lives. One of the friends really bugged me - she wouldn't be my friend.

Blus Screen

3 cookies
Blue Screen by Robert B. Parker. I thought this was going to be better than it was. A female detective is hired to protect an actress, and then her sister is murdered. So - so.

Gone Baby Gone

5 cookies
Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane. This book was great, I thought about it for a long time afterward. I love the writing and the story was compelling. A couple of detectives looking for a kidnapped girl.

Don't Blink

4 cookies
Don't Blink by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. I'm not even sure how to explain this one. A man sees something that sucks him into trouble. That works.

Chasing the Night

4 cookies
Chasing the Night by Iris Johansen. An Eve Duncan novel. I like these, and this one was good. A woman trying to get back her son, who was kidnapped by an enemy out for revenge.