Monday, June 21, 2010

Weekend of reading


I think that I might need to raise the number of books that I was planning on reading this summer because a weekend without Emma meant that I have now completed 2 1/2 books on my reading list...

Emma was up in Massachusetts over the weekend and was the prettiest flower girl in the world at her father's wedding. Congratulations to Josh and Samantha!!! Her absence left me with a lot of free time however...

The first book completed was...
Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 10)

Last year for my birthday Matt bought me the starter boxed set of the Sookie Stackhouse novels. He thought that I would be interested in reading them because I enjoy watching True Blood series on HBO and the storyline is based on these novels... I of course was not too excited about receiving books for my birthday and I didn't want to get too ahead of the TV show because Matt HATES it when I'm constantly saying "that's not what happened in the book..." Well, I picked up the first book and quickly ate my words because I LOVED the books and quickly bought the rest from Amazon.

With the 10th book coming out this summer I knew that it would be on my summer reading list and I knew that it would be the first book that I would pick up... however I found myself to be a bit disappointed. Charlaine Harris is an excellent writer and she keeps her reader engaged throughout the whole book which is probably a hard thing to do because NOTHING happens until the very last chapter in this book. In a book with 320 pages I had assumed that there would be a ton of action because that is what I remember from reading the first nine books last summer... but I guess I had nine books of action.

When I put the book down I did enjoy it and I will continue reading the series. I just had a little beef with the lack of action...

1 comment:

  1. Read "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein. It was the book FCPL put on it's all of Fairfax read list for this summer. It isn't action packed and when I started it I wasn't too sure but in the end it was well worth it.

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