"The Broken Gun" By Louis L'amour

This book felt a little different from the majority of L'amour's books that I have read. It was set in modern day, but was still part of a story from the past. Part western, part action/adventure, and part mystery... this book has a little something for a lot of people. I really enjoyed it and it was a fast read.

A quote I enjoyed:

"Here and there some latecomer had dug into the piles looking for treasure, but there is no treasure to be found there except the treasure of wonder, and for that no man need dig…unless he digs within himself." – Louis L'amour in "The Broken Gun"

"The Big Over Easy" By Jasper Fforde

I read this with my book club. We were looking for something light to read. While I found the references to nursery rhymes and other stories/subtitle suggestions to be clever, I found the writing style to be sort of distracting. I finally got use to it 1/3-1/2 of the way through the book and fell into a reading rhythm from there. The newspaper clippings at the beginning of each chapter were sometimes relevant, sometimes funny, and other times annoying since they didn't add to the story. Overall, I was happy with the main story and I'd read a sequel probably. I'd say that everyone in the book club had fun with the book whether they liked it or not.

A very secondary character in the book was the 1 year old son of Inspector Jack Spratt (a main character). The boy, Stevie, really had nothing to do with the main story, but since I currently have a 1 year old, I found these lines in the book to be amusing and true-to-life:

“Da-woo!” screamed Stevie, waving a spoon as he scattered food around the room, much to the pleasure of the cat, with whom, it was generally agreed, Stevie had an “understanding.”

“Da-woo!!” yelled Stevie, jumping up and down. In the absence of anything more productive to do, he grasped large handfuls of scrambled egg and squeezed until it oozed between his fingers like yellow toothpaste.

Stevie then stared at Prometheus with all the seriousness that one-year-olds can muster, which is quite a lot. “Da-woo,” he said at length.

Stevie screamed “Da-woo!” enthusiastically and hurled his spoon on the floor because he could.

"Dune Road" By Jane Green

Borrowed this from the Library & read it in about a week.

This is a book about life. I'm not sure that I have classified this correctly. It isn't a typical chick-lit. Not fluffy, but still more geared for a woman to read. It is about the main character after her divorce, the friends she finds & a piece of their lives. There is a sprinkle of a mystery in there too, but you'll have to read the book to find out more.


a quote...

"Loving, she realizes is a verb. It is an act. It is not enought to say you love someone, and then forget about them, or trust a relationship will stay stong simply beacuse you share a house or children or a life. Loving requires acts of love. [...] They forgot to love each other. They expected love to continue, without putting any work into it..."

"She Went All The Way" By Meg Cabot

Sent to me by my friend, Laura. (Thanks!)

Good book! Gets a little steamy. It had a bit of action and was hard to put down. With all of the snow in the book and all of the snow we're having this winter, I've been thinking about pieces of this book for weeks. A definite recommend.

no quote for this one.

"Left Bank" By Kate Muir

(Thanks for the book loan again Laura) :)

Wow.
This book is not what I thought it would be (from reading the back cover). It sounds sort of nice & pretty with a hint of suspense. It is actually more gritty, rough & satirical with a sense of bursting from a cocoon.

This book is not for someone that upsets at reading about poor morals. (The book goes rather into depth with the husbands affair.) However, there is always a silver lining in the cloud... not going into much detail on that.

Not really light reading, but not heavy either. Overall enjoyed the more serious nature of the book & would recommend it. Especially to those people who'd understand philosophy a bit more than me. I suspect that, if one were reading this book in a literature class, one would get more out of it than myself.

A quote of a quote in the book...

"To have been always what I am; and so changed from what I was"

"Princess Izzy & The E Street Shuffle" By Beverly Barlett

You girls that love the tabloids would get a kick out of this book! I never follow the lifestyles of the rich & famous, but this is like one long tabloid article & it was a fun read. It is written like someone is filling you in on some gossip. There are a few twists and turns & a little mystery floating in there. Overall, a fun fluff book.

"Rusty Nail" By Joe Konrath

My second book on audio by J.A. Konrath. The first one was gross & this one might be more gross! He is a good writer, but I recommend that you do not have a weak stomach. Also, this book came before "Dirty Martini", so if you want to read them in order, start here. This book is about a very disturbing killer. Lt. Jack Daniels is after him. The author has Jack & the killer, Alex, narrating the story. I am happier when it isn't the killer's turn! At any rate, it is a hard-to-put-down type of book, so if you want some mystery in your life, enjoy!

"Dirty Martini" By Joe Konrath

Okay, so I technically did not read this book; I listened to it. Hopefully, that's alright with you all.

You may not want to read or listen to this one while eating anything. It is about this female detective Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels who is trying to catch "The Chemist". The Chemist is running around town, killing people with food, injecting disease into the food & setting traps. It is a very good book though, hard to put down... er, press stop? :) I'm going to have to check out more of this series.

If you are having trouble finding this book/series, the author also goes by J. A. Konrath.