I have decided it isn't good to read several books in one day. Yesterday I read "The Westing Game", "The Great Gilly Hopkins" and "On Grandma's Porch" all in the same day. I think that is why I had a hard time with the "Westing Game - because I had read so much and my books were running into each other. I just barely finished "The Crossroads Cafe" by Deborah Smith. I loved this book but it took me a few pages to get into it because it was in essence my 4th book of the day. I only read a few chapters last night before bed though. This is a story of an actress that loses her looks because of an accident and architect that has lost his family. The story line is their finding each other and the romance that follows. It is a beautifully told story. There is some language and it is a bit explicit on occasion without warning but not like some books where that is part of the story line. It was a wonderful story and well worth my time. It in essence teaches you that life is not worth giving up on.
"The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin was not what I expected. The dedication says "For Jenny: Who asked for a puzzle mystery." I guess that I thought it would be something different than what unfolded. It is definitely a puzzle and it is a mystery. At first I thought I was disappointed in it but the more I have been thinking about it - the more I realize that I really liked it. I can't stop thinking about it and the twists and turns it took. It was a good book. Oh and by the way it is a Newbery Award Winning Book.
"The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson was an interesting book. It is about a little foster girl that searches for her mother and then finds out that just because you have a mother doesn't mean that life is perfect. It was an interesting book. Like most of Katherine Paterson's books - it was kind of a bittersweet tale. This was a Newbery Honor Book.
"On Grandma's Porch" is written by a bunch of different authors about their experiences with their grandparents in the South. It was a wonderful book. At the heading of each story is a quote by a famous 'Southerner'. One of the quotes that made me laugh was, "The biggest myth about Southern women is that we are frail types - fainting on our sofas...nobody where I grew up ever acted like that. We were about as fragile as coal trucks. " (Lee Smith, author) Between the chapters are things as they were - such as comments made by older people when I was growing up and what things were like when I was a girl. I loved this book and I highly recommend it.
"Knit the Season" is a sequel to "Friday Night Knitting Club" - the book first book I ever downloaded onto my Kindle. I found this book at a book store while we were in Las Vegas and was going to read it on the plane but I didn't get to it until today. It was a great book. I love the way Kate Jacobs writes. It kept me engaged and though it took a few twists I didn't expect it also wasn't totally predictable. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with this book.
"Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch" was a free download on my Kindle. It is Harlequin book and so I would never have picked it up if I had seen it in paperback. However it was a great story and very well told. Parts were quite predictable but until the very end you really didn't know the outcome of the mystery.
"Summer of the Midnight Sun" by Tracie Peters was a free download from Kindle. I would have never read it otherwise. It was one of those books that irritated me because there was a woman in that does not listen - does as she pleases and constantly gets everyone else into problematic situations because basically she is too selfish to see the big picture. The thing is that she thinks she is doing this wonderful thing but she is totally self absorbed and really a pill. It is from the Christian Genre of books and if I hadn't hated Helaina so badly - I may have gone on to read the next one (this book ends in a cliff-hanger). But frankly Helaina deserves whatever happens to her. I just hope no one else was hurt in the process.
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