If anybody has read any of these and wants to add to my critiques, feel free!
Also, I am open to suggestions. Would welcome any good books you've read!

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3rd's a charm

Cover Your Assets by Patricia Smiley, my 3rd choice, I originally picked off the shelf because I thought the name of the book was Cover Your Asses. It really started off great, too. I thought I was headed for a 5 star for sure. I must have read the first 80 pages, I couldn't put it down. Then, well, then I could. An old flame of the main character is killed, she figures out who did it, even though she is not a detective, or PI, or anything else like that. Murdered dude wife is her ex-best friend who took murdered guy away from her a long time ago, now police are looking at spouse as prime suspect. So 3 stars, Patricia Smiley is a Los Angeles best selling author. I never heard of her, but I guess it's true cause it says so right on the cover. I would probably read another by her.

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Next book up, The Sister by Poppy Adams. I checked this book out a few days ago, read it, and now the critique: I finished it and I like the author's name: Poppy. Isn't that cute? So 1 1/2 stars just for that. This is about an elderly spinster sister who's younger (also old) sister moves in with her. Then it's told backward, from their youth when younger sis hurts herself and can't have children, marriage, mother's death, sister turns into murderer. Well, I hope I didn't give anything away, but since I don't see anybody really reading this...no biggie...if you are stuck somewhere (traffic congestion for hours while an oil spill is cleaned up) ok read it. Otherwise. SKIP IT!!

First Review

Well, I wish I could give my first review 5 stars but it ain't in the cards. amazon.com give this book 4. Most I could do: 2 -1/2. There's lots and lots of interesting characters and their trials and tribulations after becoming Names for themselves in an elite insurance group, a group that lured them in under false pretenses and now they are losing everything. It was hard to keep up with so many people, the happy ending without a lot of hoopla. The plot and all the little subplots are good, and if you are going to be confined in a hospital bed or snowed in perhaps then by all means get it. I plan on returning to the library and getting the book that made Vincenzi a best selling British author.
Let me know if you disagree.

Howdy-do

When I became a bonafide cardcarrying member of my local library, I asked friends and families to name a good book.
That's what I'd say: "What's your favorite book?"
"The Sun Also Rises"
"A Tale of Two Cities"
"Gone with the Wind"
"Anne of Green Gables"
I read them all, any recommended to me. Then I moved on to magazine reviews, and the review in my weekly paper, and the Sunday bestseller list. But when I see a book at the library, sitting on a shelf, I think, "what about this one? how come I never heard anything about you?"
So I'm on my own.
If you've read 'An Absolute Scandal', let me know what you thought. Or if you haven't yet, get it now and read it with me.
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First Entry: An Absolute Scandal

Here's an update:

My first review will be on a book by Penny Vincenzi, published in 2007. So it is not very old. The cover says she is a bestselling British author. I'll let you know what I think...

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Judging a Book by it's Cover

I can remember visiting the bookmobile when I was growing up;it parked on my street's corner. We-my brothers, sisters, and I had a lemonade stand (I can count on one hand how many customers we had), 1 TV, complete with rabbit ears-Gunsmoke and Gilligan were still difficult to make out sometimes, and the bookmobile.

The premise for my blog is simple:

I walk in the library where there are thousands of books. Pretty cool, if you think about it. All those books and it all comes down to just 26 letters. Designed to entertain, frighten, excite, make you cry, make you laugh...everybody loves a good book. Well, that's not exactly true, but I kind of feel sad for someone who doesn't like to read.

Waiting in a doctor's office?--you've got your lastest novel.

Stuck in an elevator? you'll be rescued right in the middle of the juicy part.

Can't fall asleep? If the book's that good no way!

So the premise:

Once a week, I choose a book, any book from the multitudes on the library shelves. I don't read the back or inside jacket. Another words I know nothing about it. I read it, then I come back here, and journal my thoughts. I'll let you know, whether it's worth your time or if you should be glad you missed it.


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