i want to be the honey trap!

Ya'll know how much I adore Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum Series, I've read all nineteen books, and while waiting around for number twenty, I decided that I needed a quick fix, so I read The Heist by Evanovich and Lee Goldberg. My opinion? Kate O'Hare is no Stephanie Plum Jersey girl with allllll that attitude, but she's not supposed to be. She's supposed to be an FBI Special Agent tomboy who's a daddy's girl, and I liked that, too.

Kate has been chasing down mega con artist Nicolas Fox for years. The man dupes the rich out of millions and gets away every single time, while also stealing her Toblerone's (you'll have to read it to get it). When Kate finally makes the catch of her career she is taken aback a bit when the FBI decides to team the two of them up for a special project where the government does the duping. It's a quick and easy read with a cast of merry men (plus Willie), that will make you laugh out loud.

stand-alone thriller.

Author Gregg Hurwitz gets right down to it in his latest novel Tell No Lies. No boring introduction before the story begins, he just takes right off and I love that in an author.

Main character Daniel Brasher decided to make a lifestyle change years ago. He left his lucrative job as a money manager to begin a career in counseling, which he loves, and is now moving to a private practice of his own. Sounds good, right? Wrong. Just weeks before he is scheduled to open his new practice, Daniel finds an envelope addressed to someone else in his work mailbox. It contains an unsigned warning on a single sheet of paper, giving the person a deadly warning to make an admission of guilt. But by time Daniel finds and opens the envelope, the deadline has passed and it is too late, a vicious murder takes place. This misdirected envelopes don't end there, Daniel spends the rest of the novel working with the police and trying to save the potential victims before their fate's are sealed. And as time passes, Daniel realizes that the murderer is much close to him than he ever imagined. Dum, dum, dummmmm.

fab middle grade reading series.

I LOVE Amelia Bedelia, always have, so you can understand my excitement when Hermann Perish came out with Amelia Bedelia: Road Trip, because you know how much I love road trips as well. Basically, Amelia's dad gets a bonus at work and the family decides to drive around their state on a road trip. Their idea is to "roam" around, not having a destination, just enjoying the ride. Miss Amelia and her parents have some pretty funny misunderstandings between them, giving your middle readers some comic relief and a super cute tale with the appropriate amount of vocabulary to make them smarter. And Lynne Avril kicks ass with the illustrations. Win, win, win, win.

if you enjoyed the china study...

Since manfriend and I are getting hitched in less than ten months, we have seriously discussed changing our eating habits in preparation for the big day. He already eats very healthy, I am the one who is a terrible influence and bring hot fries and pepper jack cheese into the house. Anyways, all of this health talk got me thinking about a book I recently read...

Health researcher T. Colin Campbell's Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition is all about optimizing our nutrition and our health. The book is based around two different ideas: "First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't." So what you're saying is that I can't put hot fries on my salad and still be considered healthy? Moving on...Campbell has developed a diet that is whole-food and plant-based. And if you follow the lifestyle he recommends, this is what will happen:

"The remarkable health effects of this delicious eating lifestyle prevents 95% of all cancers, including those "caused" by environmental toxins, prevents nearly all heart attacks and strokes, reverses even severe heart disease, prevents and reverses type 2 diabetes so quickly and profoundly that, after three days eating whole plant foods, it's dangerous for users to continue to use insulin."

 

 

Yeah, not showing this to manfriend, he'll take away my hot fries for life.

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disregard the strange premise and just read the damn novel.

In Karen Joy Fowler's We Are Completely Beside Ourselves, the Cooke's seem like an ordinary family. Mother, father, three children. Well, two children and a chimpanzee. That's normal, right? It was to main character and narrator Rosemary, who grew up with her chimpanzee sister Fern like any other siblings, until Fern was taken away when Rosemary was five and the family's lives changed forever. The story begins when Rosemary is 22 and in her fifth year of college far way from her hometown and the awful memories that live there. Throughout the novel we learn what has happened to each family member since Fern's removal from the household, and watch as Rosemary uncovers the reasons why her sister was taken away from her.

It is unlike any novel you will ever read, and it will touch your heart more than any review can tell you. Go on now, read up.

murder mystery, coming of age story, potato, patato.

Joyce Maynard has created quite the suspense tale in her latest novel After Her which came out at the end of August.

Set in the late 1970's, young women keep turning up dead in Marin County, California, presumably the work of a serial killer. Young sisters Rachel and Patty's father, who is the chief homicide detective in the area, is in charge of finding the killer, and unable to do so. Fast forward thirty years and Rachel is still searching for the "Sunset Strangler" never giving up hope to save her father's career which was tarnished all those years ago. This novel is based on the events that took place in Northern California in the 1970's when a man known as the "Trailside Killer" killed more than half a dozen young women. Pretty much, I dare you to NOT read this in 48 hours.

a book to relax with.

Okay, just because Mary Simses' debut novel The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Café is a tad girly and mildly predictable, doesn't mean it isn't fun. It's an easy read with a plot that isn't overly complicated, I'm sorry, what's not to like? I have my moments when I want to read something a bit more rigorous, but most of the time, I adore the light and fluffy, and that is exactly what Simses has in store for you in this novel.

Main character Ellen, travels from Manhattan to small-town Maine to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish, which is to find and give her last letter to a hometown man she fell in love with when she was young. What was meant to be a quick trip turns into much more when Ellen almost drowns and is saved by a local carpenter. This is only the first thing that derails Ellen's journey to find her grandmother's long lost love, and it is certainly not the last. Her experiences with the characters of this small town make her rethink her big city dreams with the man she left behind. Simses has created a light, funny, and sweet novel with imagery that will make your mouth water. Bon appetite!