Much Reading…
Due to the back trouble and the need to stick very close to home since we returned from Colorado Springs last weekend I’ve gotten a bunch of reading done.
Chris had mentioned a while back having read the most recent Harry Dresden book and reminded me that DH & I had started watching the series on the Sci-fi channel and we had talked about reading the books. So, I put the first one, Storm Front on hold at the library. I read it early last week and DH read it while we were in the Springs.
I was kind of disappointed that I had watch the series first as there were some definite changes made to the characters for the television series - Murphy is physically different and Bob is different in many ways. It also kind of ruined the mystery a bit as the story from the first book matched up pretty closely to one of the episodes from the first season. Fortunately I don’t have the best memory when it comes to television shows so I didn’t know the ultimate outcome, but rather had a sense of deja vu throughout the reading. Regardless, I enjoyed the book and read it very quickly.
I’m not the most open to sci-fi/fantasy books so that is saying something. It also is the first book of a series which often is not the strongest. I’m looking forward to checking out Fool Moon before too long.
While in the Springs I read Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson. In this twelfth adventure of Colorado caterer and sleuth, Goldy Bear Schultz, she finds herself attacked early one morning and that was just the start of the day and it went downhill from there. As usual Goldy is on the case trying to find the guilty party. However, this time there is even more at stake. She is the prime suspect!
It was a pretty typical DMM read. Though it was new to have Goldy as the sheriff’s department number one suspect. It added a nice twist to the usual plot. If you have read the other books in the series and enjoyed them you will likely enjoy this one as well.
Early this week I then read a book that my mom had recommended to me. It was one of those books that she calls me about and says that she had wanted to call me in the middle of the night and tell me about it when she had finished reading it. That sets the bar pretty high though!
The book she recommended was Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews. This is the first Andrews book I’ve read, but I enjoyed it a lot and will likely check out her other books at some point. It was a funny and heartwarming romance set in Georgia. Keeley Murdoch is a thirty-something interior designer in business with her aunt. Her plans go south at her rehearsal dinner and it drags down their interior design business as well. She finds herself reluctantly working on a dream job restoring an antebellum mansion with an seemingly endless budget but a very tight deadline. There is some definite tension between her and her client and she isn’t too taken with the ultimate goal of this restoration project.
While Keely’s life seems to be going down the crapper, Andrews portrays it with great humor. I often found myself laughing out loud as I read. The plot is pretty predictable from the get-go and the ending may be bit a too clean and wrapped up, but I enjoyed the book a lot. I devoured it in less than a day so it isn’t a huge investment of time.
