Why I have this book: A friend recommended it, so I borrowed it from the ebook library.
I liked it okay. I gave it three stars on Goodreads. It seemed only somewhat realistic to me, but I do recall that at one point in the story I thought about telling my son's teacher about it. I thought he might like it. I ended up deciding not to, but I don't remember if it was before or after I finished the book.
I looked up the sequels and within the first few pages of the second one, I knew I wouldn't read them. It was crude and gross, so that was that.
I don't remember if there was anything gross in this one... I'm still playing catch up, so it was about 6 weeks ago that I read this.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Sunday, October 23, 2016
How to Catch a Frog: And Other Stories of Family, Love, Dysfunction, Survival and DIY (Heather Ross)
Why I have this book: A friend recommended it, then I recommended it to our book club.
Sooooo... I only gave this 3 stars on Goodreads. I was disappointed that I didn't like it more. I kind of dragged for me a bit, and there was some yucky language in it.
It's a memoir, and while the author's life is interesting, it wasn't interesting enough to me to really love it. Maybe it's because I'm in school and I didn't have enough energy to get hooked, but actually, none of the book club members seemed to love it, either. Actually, I'm not sure if everyone read it. It seems to have fallen flat in our group, so while I didn't hear a lot of "I hate this!" I also didn't hear any, "I loved this book!" I can't even remember if we ended up having book club the month we were going to discuss it. (I've been hit and miss with book club this year.)
This book had bad language, including the F-word, and there wasn't a real strong sense of morality in general, although the book really wasn't about that and wasn't descriptive, as far as I can recall. (Writing this in December - still playing catch up!)
Sooooo... I only gave this 3 stars on Goodreads. I was disappointed that I didn't like it more. I kind of dragged for me a bit, and there was some yucky language in it.
It's a memoir, and while the author's life is interesting, it wasn't interesting enough to me to really love it. Maybe it's because I'm in school and I didn't have enough energy to get hooked, but actually, none of the book club members seemed to love it, either. Actually, I'm not sure if everyone read it. It seems to have fallen flat in our group, so while I didn't hear a lot of "I hate this!" I also didn't hear any, "I loved this book!" I can't even remember if we ended up having book club the month we were going to discuss it. (I've been hit and miss with book club this year.)
This book had bad language, including the F-word, and there wasn't a real strong sense of morality in general, although the book really wasn't about that and wasn't descriptive, as far as I can recall. (Writing this in December - still playing catch up!)
Sunday, October 16, 2016
I Can Forgive with God (Ganel-Lyn Condie)
Why I have this book: I probably saw it in a local bookstore catalog, and since I had read her first book and liked it, I decided to read this one, also.
I gave this 4 stars on Goodreads. It's a compilation of stories from people who had reason to forgive. Some are regular life kind of things, some are pretty big deals. They are all thought-provoking.
(Still catching up, so I don't remember a lot of details as I write this in December after reading it in October!)
Clean, but there are some tough stories to read.
I gave this 4 stars on Goodreads. It's a compilation of stories from people who had reason to forgive. Some are regular life kind of things, some are pretty big deals. They are all thought-provoking.
(Still catching up, so I don't remember a lot of details as I write this in December after reading it in October!)
Clean, but there are some tough stories to read.
A Love Undone: An Amish Novel of Shattered Dreams and God's Unfailing Grace (Cindy Woodsmall)
Why I have this book: A friend recommended it, and I was still in "light reading" mode, so I bought it. (It had been on my Wish List for a while.)
I gave this three stars on Goodreads. Since I'm writing this in December (even though I'm dating the post as if I wrote it as soon as I finished the book), I don't really remember much about it. Even reading the Amazon description isn't bringing back a ton of memories. Three stars = I liked it. Better than 2 stars (It was okay) and not quite as good as 4 stars (Really liked it). Haha!
It fit the bill of a light read, so I'm okay with that.
Clean.
I gave this three stars on Goodreads. Since I'm writing this in December (even though I'm dating the post as if I wrote it as soon as I finished the book), I don't really remember much about it. Even reading the Amazon description isn't bringing back a ton of memories. Three stars = I liked it. Better than 2 stars (It was okay) and not quite as good as 4 stars (Really liked it). Haha!
It fit the bill of a light read, so I'm okay with that.
Clean.
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Two books by Rebecca Connolly
Secrets of a Spinster
Married to the Marquess
Why I have these books: I think they were super cheap on Kindle and I wanted light reads. (I'm in school now, so light reads are kinda all I can handle.)
I only gave them 2 stars on Goodreads. (To be honest, I'm playing catch up here on the blog. I was going to just switch to Goodreads, but today I looked up a book here and it was nice to have more than just "stars" to go off of when it came to my opinion. So I'm back... and putting in the dates of when I really read the books, even though I'm writing this in December...)
Anyway, I just looked up the descriptions of these books on Amazon (because I couldn't really remember what they were about) and here's what I have to say:
Secrets of a Spinster: Cute'ish. Light. Mindless read.
Married to the Marquess: Cuter than Secrets. Still light. Still mindless.
I don't hate that I read them, but I did only give them 2 stars when I put them on Goodreads, so I must not have gone beyond "It was okay" in my opinion at the time.
Clean.
Married to the Marquess
Why I have these books: I think they were super cheap on Kindle and I wanted light reads. (I'm in school now, so light reads are kinda all I can handle.)
I only gave them 2 stars on Goodreads. (To be honest, I'm playing catch up here on the blog. I was going to just switch to Goodreads, but today I looked up a book here and it was nice to have more than just "stars" to go off of when it came to my opinion. So I'm back... and putting in the dates of when I really read the books, even though I'm writing this in December...)
Anyway, I just looked up the descriptions of these books on Amazon (because I couldn't really remember what they were about) and here's what I have to say:
Secrets of a Spinster: Cute'ish. Light. Mindless read.
Married to the Marquess: Cuter than Secrets. Still light. Still mindless.
I don't hate that I read them, but I did only give them 2 stars when I put them on Goodreads, so I must not have gone beyond "It was okay" in my opinion at the time.
Clean.
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