| The 2009 Alphabet Book Challenge is on!
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B- Book of Love by Jill Conner Browne. Another SPQ book. This is the one that started the whole thing...
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F- First Big A$$ Novel, by Jill Conner Browne. Easy read and very funny. Another in the SPQ series. Also Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley. Just love Buckley!!
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K- Know it all by A.J. Jacobs. Another long book. I started reading this one while stuck at Borders, waiting for Lucas to pick out my Christmas present. It started off with a bang and I laughed outloud. But it took an eternity to read. I could blame Dottie, but it wasn't here. Just after awhile, it went from being a hugely enjoyable book that I couldn't say enough good things about to a book that was challenging to finish. I powered through, but I think his next book (Year of Biblical Living) was much better.
*L- The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry. It was a long book and some what of the mystery genre, which we know I don't like. Parts of it were amusing. But having a self-professed liar as the story teller and having the reader guess whether or not what we were reading was the truth, while an interesting notion, was more work that I was really willing to put into a book that didn't have an even flow. Frequently it felt like I had read for hours and managed to not make any progess at all in the darn thing. However, I did laugh out loud at parts and I have read worse books.
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O- One for the Money by Janet Evanovich. Another mystery. Susan's been after me for awhile to read this series. Given my love of mysteries, I've resisted. But I bit the bullet and it wasn't awful. However, either I'm amazingly brilliant or it was written for people who don't figure things out easily because who didn't see the bad guy being the bad guy? The ending wasn't shocking or hard to see coming. Hello? A butcher? Yeah, I'm surprised alright. Might continue reading the series, might not. Maybe as the books become available at the library. A fate reading, if you will.
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S- The Sweet Potato Queen's Field Guide to Men by Jill Conner Browne. By far, the best book I've heard all year.
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*V- The View from Mount Joy by Lorna Landvik
*W- What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
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