Book Review: "Stillwatch" By: Mary Higgins Clark

Title:Stillwatch
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Pages: 368
Personal Rating: B or 4/5
Number read for the year: 27

From the insde flap cover: Broadcast journalist, Pat treymore comes to Washington to do a piece on the senator andvice-presidential nominee Abigail Jennings, but also to discover the truth behind her own mysterious past. Despite anonymous warnings to stay away, PAt continues her search- revealin gdark secrets that threaten to end the senators political career...and Pat's life.

My Personal thoughts:This one was ok, not as great as previous ones I've read of hers. But still enjoyable. I gave it a 4/5 rating. It had been sitting on my TBR shelf for quite some time, and I decided I was in the mood for some mystery and went for it.

Book Review: "Living Dead in Dallas"

Title: Living Dead in Dallas
Author: Charlaine Harris
Pages:279
Personal rating:A or 5/5
Number read for the year: 26

From goodreads review: "Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is on a streak of real bad luck. First, her co-worker gets murdered and no one seems to care. Then Sookie is attacked - and poisoned - late one night by some weird and apparently mythical beast. She only survives because the local vampires roll up and graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they didn't enjoy it). But in return the blood-suckers need a favor.

Which is why Sookie ends up in Dallas, using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire, on the condition that her undead friends don't do anything, well, vampiric while she's there. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly."



Personal Thought:I thought the second one in this series (this one) was better than the first. I think I'm starting to get addicted to this series...oh boy! lol

Book Review: "Leaving Ireland" By Ann Moore

Title: Leaving Ireland
Author: Ann Moore
Pages: 378
Personal Rating: A or 5/5
Number read for the year: 25


From the back Cover:Hoping for a better future, Gracelin O'Malley sets sail from her beloved Ireland- a journey that takes her to a world far different from anything she's ever known. After surviving the difficult voyage, she joins her brother Sean, already much changed by his exciting life in Manhattan. she takes a job in a saloon, learning firsthand the harsh reality of immigrant life and the horrors ofthe Irish tenement district. Haunted by the choices of her past, and desperate for news of the infant son she left behind in County Cork, she finds solace in the friendship of a runaway slave, a woman who has made unspeakable choices of her own. As grace struggles to adapt to her new home, she reunites with a man she once misjudged. With his help, she finds the courage to take a stand against the corruption and injustice around her, but her brave actions threaten the very people she swore to protect.

Personal thoughts: This author was new to me at the beginning of the year, when I read the first one of the Gracelin' O'Malley series. I fell in love with her writing and her characters. There is a third book in the series, and I want to read it eventually, though I don't own it yet. If you have any Irish in your blood, I would suggest this one for you, these novels are rich with Irish History as the story of Gracelin O'Malley unfolds in this delightful series.

March: Monthly Rundown

1) Anna Karenina
2) Cutting for Stone
3) The Portrait of a Lady
4) Two for the Dough
5) People of the Wolf

Classics- 2
Boxall's List- 2

This was a bad month for reading for me. I think Anna Karenina slowed me down a bit.

Yearly page count:8,067
Yearly book count: 23

Aaack! Sooo behind!!

I'm behind on reviews, I am sooooo sorry!! This always happens!! I tell myself that I will stay caught up, and then I find myself reading book #20 for the year (like now) and only written a handful of reviews! I will try to get some more up here soon!

So far March has been a slow month for reading, I have finished 1 book, yes! ONE! granted it was Anna Karenina...with it's whoppin' 817 pages, but that is NO excuse!! I started it on January 1st!! I think I have been sidetracked lately with blogs and blog reading and Facebook playing and cross stitching and not reading as much as I would like. I am going to try to rectify that here SOON! As well as posting more reviews also! I try to keep my sidebar up to date, so if you want to know what is going on with me, watch that! Reviews will show up...eventually...I really wanted to do better about that this year....::sigh::oh well, I am back on the ball...I just poted a review on "Then Came Heaven" (Check Jan 7th post) I will be posting others this week as well. Stay tuned!

February: Monthly Run-Down

1. The Restoration
2. A Modest Proposal
3. Little Women
4. The Historian
5. Water Dancers
6. Dead Until Dark
7. Captivated

Non-Fiction: 1
Classics: 2
Library: 3
Dr. Boxall's 1001 list: 2

Yearly page count: 6,070
Yearly book count: 18

January Reads: Monthly Rundown

1. Dracula by: B. Stoker
2. The Other Queen By: P. Gregory
3. Then Came Heaven By: L. Spencer
4. The Inheritance By: LM Alcott
5. Foul Play By: J. Evanovich
6. Gracelin O'Malley By: A. Moore
7. My Sunshine By: C. Anderson
8. Catch-22 By: J. Heller
9. A Girl's Best Friend By: K. Billerbeck
10. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County By: T. Baker
11. Moral Disorder By: M. Atwood

Classics: 2
Audio: 3

Yearly page count: 2,937