Mirkwood Reflections

Eight books again in March. Making good progress toward the 999 Reading Challenge. Deadly Reunion by Florence Case - 03/09/09 Poor - Inspirational Police officer Angie is sure that Warren Detry killed his wife and is now planning to kill Angie's sister and maybe Angie as well. Can her former love Boone protect her? I really wanted to like this book which I won in a blog contest, but I just didn't. I found it confusing and cliched. Soup by Robert Newton Peck - 03/09/09 Excellent - Read-aloud Misadventures of Robert and his mischievous friend Soup are described in this pithy and humorous memoir This is one of the books from my own childhood that I'm reading aloud to my children. Not politically correct at all, but very very funny! Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani - 03/14/09 Good - Fiction Valentine Roncalli is apprentice to her grandmother, a master shoemaker and owner of the Angelini Shoe Co in NYC, an 100 year old financially unstable company that makes custom wedding s...

I've been neglecting this poor blog! I'll try harder in the future! Just four books in January. I tried hard, but reading time was scarce! I did write 27,000 words on my novel in January though! The Falcon and the Sparrow by M.L. Tyndall - 01/13/09 Good - Inspirational Regency (999 Category: Serendipity – Unplanned books I want to read ) Dominique is hired as a governess to the son of an English admiral but has a hidden agenda as a French spy, a task she is forced into to save her brother's life. I really enjoyed this Christian Regency romance! (Regencies are set at the beginning of the 19th century in England.) Far from your typical sappy Christian novel, this one dealt squarely with issues of faith and morality, rather than presenting a sanitized view of life. Both main characters were believable and likable. Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich - 01/14/09 Good - Fiction (999 Category: Kindred Spirits - Books By Favorite Authors) An FTA has absconded with a magnetometer and ...