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More Awesome: Goal 1.09 Complete

RaeBelle

I’ve had hockey on the brain which makes me a bad blogger here sometimes.  But I do do quite a lot of reading during September.  I don’t feel I’m any good at book reviews, and I read 3 books so I’ll spare everyone who read this from my poor attempts at reviewing the books.

I started with The Balkan Escape by Steve Berry.  It was a short story to prepare you for the next book in the Cotton Malone series, The Emperor’s Tomb.  It was such a quick read, I almost felt bad about listing it.  Though it did kick off my little reading binge, so it made the list.  It’s only available in eBook format, which was fun.  I love reading eBooks, so it was no problem at all for me.  I can’t wait for November and the release of Emperor’s Tomb!

Next up was The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova.  It was a good book but felt a bit plodding at times and took me much longer to read than I thought it would.  I just couldn’t dive in for extended reading sessions.  I had to take some breaks.  I think I preferred Kostova’s first book, The Historian.  If she releases a new book, I’ll give it a try, but my expectations are lowered a bit.

I ended the month with 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs.  I’ve read every book in the Temperance Brennan series and I always enjoy them!  As always with Kathy Reichs, this was a great book.  I’ve never been disappointed by one of the Temperance Brennan books.  I have another on my iPad waiting to be read. 🙂

More Awesome 1.08

RaeBelle

In August I made up for my slacking in July 🙂

To start the month, I read A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff.  It was an interesting story about loss, grief and forgiveness.  Though the actual plot felt like that was almost secondary to the descriptions of vintage clothing.  I enjoyed the descriptions of the vintage clothing, as it is a fondness of mine.

In the middle of August, I read the Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry.  It’s the 5th book in the Cotton Malone series.  I really enjoy Steve Berry’s books and I’ve read them all to date.  I really enjoyed the book and there were actually some events I didn’t anticipate, which was a nice change for me.  Normally when I read action or mystery books I figure it out early in the story.  I didn’t have it all figured out, which I loved.

To wrap up the month, I read Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals.  I’d heard a lot of good things about the book.  It was pretty good, but nothing in the book really felt revolutionary to me.  Of course I didn’t read it for a revolutionary experience, so it met my expectations.

I’ve also been listening to Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk.  I’m really enjoying it, but it doesn’t count towards my goal :)  I’ll probably do a separate post on that!