"A Bride Most Begrudging" by Deeanne Gist was a free download on my Kindle. I have to admit that I was not
enamored with the plot and put off reading it for a couple of weeks. However on our trip, I was running out of things to read while I was waiting around - so I started reading this. It ended up being well written and quite fun. It is about a Lady Constance from Britain, who sneaks onto a prison ship setting sail for the America Colonies in the early 1700's - specifically Virginia to see her uncle off. Because she has no one with her, the captain 'claps her in irons' and throws her below decks, making her a prisoner and sells her as a bride. The plot is that Drew - her husband in name only - must look for her her father and send her back to England or after a year they will be truly married. Drew has his own issues and really doesn't want to be married either. It works out fairly predictably from there but is a great book. I am so glad I read it! I highly recommend it. Wow - that will make all the books I read this week highly recommended. That has to be a new record for me.
"Turning the Paige" by Laura Jensen
Walke is one of the
'Getaway Girls' novels that she is writing. It is about a woman that is totally dominated by her mother. I like the way that Ms. Walker writes. This one was the least preachy of the three books I have read by her and I have picked up some other fun books in the process of reading her novels. I highly recommend this book but I suggest that you start with
"Daring Chloe" then read this one and then move on to
"Becca by the Book".
Several years ago I started reading the Miss Julia books by Ann B. Ross. I love them. They are about an older Southern woman, who is well respected in her North Carolina community and how she 'fixes' the lives of her family and friends. I have no other way of describing her. In
"Miss Julia Paints the Town", Miss Julia tries to save the old Courthouse and make it a landmark but somehow it doesn't work out as she plans. It is wonderful light read. I highly recommend it.
"Outliers" by Malcolm
Gladwell was a book we listened to on the way to Virginia this last weekend. We listened to the unabridged book and it even had an interview with the author on the last CD. Clyde and I thoroughly enjoyed
"Blink' and
"The Tipping Point" so we were fairly confident that we would enjoy this book also. We did. It was a book on why men like Bill Gates and others were successful but not a 'how to' book. It just explained how basically the stars were aligned just right so they became the people they became. I highly recommend the book. We are currently listening to a book on Einstein and as we listen to it we see how he fits into the pattern of being an
'outlier'. As I listened to this book I kept thinking that my son-in-laws, Chris and Andy would LOVE this book. I hope they read it.
"A Bride Most Begrudging" by Deeanne Gist was a free download on my Kindle. I have to admit that I was not enamored with the plot and put off reading it for a couple of weeks. However on our trip, I was running out of things to read while I was waiting around - so I started reading this. It ended up being well written and quite fun. It is about a Lady Constance from Britain, who sneaks onto a prison ship setting sail for the America Colonies in the early 1700's - specifically Virginia to see her uncle off. Because she has no one with her, the captain 'claps her in irons' and throws her below decks, making her a prisoner and sells her as a bride. The plot is that Drew - her husband in name only - must look for her her father and send her back to England or after a year they will be truly married. Drew has his own issues and really doesn't want to be married either. It works out fairly predictably from there but is a great book. I am so glad I read it! I highly recommend it. Wow - that will make all the books I read this week highly recommended. That has to be a new record for me.
"Turning the Paige" by Laura Jensen Walke is one of the 'Getaway Girls' novels that she is writing. It is about a woman that is totally dominated by her mother. I like the way that Ms. Walker writes. This one was the least preachy of the three books I have read by her and I have picked up some other fun books in the process of reading her novels. I highly recommend this book but I suggest that you start with "Daring Chloe" then read this one and then move on to "Becca by the Book".
Several years ago I started reading the Miss Julia books by Ann B. Ross. I love them. They are about an older Southern woman, who is well respected in her North Carolina community and how she 'fixes' the lives of her family and friends. I have no other way of describing her. In "Miss Julia Paints the Town", Miss Julia tries to save the old Courthouse and make it a landmark but somehow it doesn't work out as she plans. It is wonderful light read. I highly recommend it.
"Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell was a book we listened to on the way to Virginia this last weekend. We listened to the unabridged book and it even had an interview with the author on the last CD. Clyde and I thoroughly enjoyed "Blink' and "The Tipping Point" so we were fairly confident that we would enjoy this book also. We did. It was a book on why men like Bill Gates and others were successful but not a 'how to' book. It just explained how basically the stars were aligned just right so they became the people they became. I highly recommend the book. We are currently listening to a book on Einstein and as we listen to it we see how he fits into the pattern of being an 'outlier'. As I listened to this book I kept thinking that my son-in-laws, Chris and Andy would LOVE this book. I hope they read it.
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Chris has read all of Malcolm Gladwell's stuff, I think. I know he's for sure read "Outliers" and "The Tipping Point."
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