Tuesday's Book Review

This is the first of Livia J. Washburn's books. I am not sure I loved the book because it takes place in Weatherford, Texas, was about Texas Peaches or just about Texas in general or because the story was well written. It was fun to find another series of books about Texas. This was one of my favorite reads of the week. I am also looking forward to trying the recipes at the end of the book,

"Breath" is another Donna Jo Napoli book. I had a hard time with it for several reasons. The first was because there was a kitten named 'Kuh'. Kuh in German means cow. Every time I read that Kuh was sitting on someone's lap or shoulder - I had a hard time wrapping my mind around anything but a cow sitting on a lap or shoulder and that was hard. I literally had to stop reading and remember it was a cat! Very frustrating. The storyline was plodding. I have decided I just don't like the story of the Pied Piper of Hamlin and that was what this was a retelling of. One of the things that I did like was that the German spellings were correct, down to the correct letters. I did finish it but I cannot recommend it as highly as some of her other books.

I only got about a third of the way through this book. I found it too wordy and couldn't remember what I had read when I picked it up from the day before. I was quite looking forward to reading this because I usually love Gerald Lund's books. I will probably pick it up when I have time but I needed to get it to someone to read before she left town so she could have it read before book group. I can always download it on my Kindle and read it when I want to and I just might do that at a later date.

This was a free download on my Kindle. I would have never read it otherwise but it was a fun diversion - even if it was very predictable.

"Murder by the Slice" was great book. It is the second book by Livia J. Washburn aboout 4 retired school teachers that live together in Weatherford, Texas - just outside of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I am sure that I loved it as much because it takes place in Texas as for any other reason. I loved this book!

"Gun Shy" is book 3 of the Raine Stockton series I have been reading about the rescue dogs. It was a great book, in fact one of my favorite reads of the week.

I didn't actually read "Dragon Rider" but Clyde did. He loved it! I hope to get to is sometime soon. We have decided that both like the way that Cornelia Funke writes.

This was an interesting book by Donna Jo Napoli. "Beast" is the story of 'Beauty and the Beast' with 9/10 of the story from the Beast's point of view. It was interesting. I had never realized that all the other versions of Beaty and Beast I had read were from Belle's point of view. Not my favorite book of the week but better than some.