Library Day

I was getting behind in my reading, and also was needed a little book time, or a time out. so I decided this weekend I would have a library day. I would get some of my favorite snacks, a few piles of my favorite books, and just read all day. It was HEAVEN.

Hourglass Door - Lisa Mangum

This one I will find hard to review. I KNEW it was going one way, and I KNEW someone was someone else. I was wrong on both accounts. So if I tell you what I thought and what really happened ... if you read it... it might not have a surprise like I got. Get it?

But it was a good read, and its written by a local Utahn.

Emily Strange - The Lost Days - Rob Reger

Loved it. I heard about it on a fluke, so went to --- bookstore, and asked about the book, she said she had a copy but it wasn't the first one. I said what the heck, I'll try it anyway. But then I got curious, who was Emily Strange, and what is the first book. Well, Emily is apparently a very popular little girl. I found out she started out as a sticker for advertising of skateboarding clothes. then she became a comic strip, then a counterculture icon. So now they have wrote a book about her. And yes, this was the first book. My sister read it and wasn't blown away by it, because it was written for young adults. Um yea, it was written from the view of a 13yr old. but I do enjoy reading these kids books. It was a lot of fun. A little girl's journal entries to help her remember things, because she has amnesia. She does drawings and takes Polaroid pics. She has 4 cats, a crazy (possibly evil) carnival, and a ditzy friend. She loves to make lists in groups of 13...... 13 items you will find in the book

1 - Mystery

2 - a beautiful golum

3 - souped up slingshots

4 - four black cats

5 - amnesia

6 - calamity poker

7 - angry ponies

8 - a shady truant officer

9 - to 13 lists

10 - a sandstorm generator

11 - doppelganger

12 - a secret mission

13 - earwigs

The Rossetti Letter - Christi Phillips

- story is about a Courtesan so.......

This is one of those books that flip from present to 17th century Italy. A woman is writing her dissertation on the Spanish conspiracy to overthrow the Venetian government. How one letter from Alessandra Rossetti changed the whole conspiracy. The other story is Alessandra's story. Being that I'm thinking of going to Venice this spring, it was totally cool to ready about a - the history and b - the city, modern and historical. But.....I cant recommend this book because there are some 'courtesan' moments.

Colonel Brandon's Diary - Amanda Grange

Oh h0w fun was this book! It's the fourth Amanda Grange book I've read. I've been waiting for this one to come out in paperback, as James Brandon is one of my favorite JA characters. This one was a little different from the others (to me at least) as there was a tremendous amount of back story that Jane never gave us, as CB wasn't one of the MAIN characters. I loved it though.

The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde

I crave anything Jasper Fforde. All four (now five) books of the Thursday Next series, and now book two of the Nursery Crime Division series. Authors who think outside of the box, authors who are original, authors who care creative. Those are authors I love. Jasper is all of those and more. I marvel at the things he comes up with and the way he puts them together. NCD series is about Jack Spratt (with two t's) who is in denial about his PDR (Persons of Dubious Reality) status. In book one he talks about his first wife who died because she could eat no lean. And he sold his mothers cow for some beans, and there were some Giants involved. Jack is the Chief Inspector of the NCD, so anything involving a Nursery character or a PDR, the police send to Jack. In this one the psychotic mass murder ..... the GINGERMAN. Laughed all the way through it.

Ok so I didn't read all these books in one day, but a few of them :0). These are the books I've read over the last week or two.