The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum

An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris

Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris

February/March Reading Review

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

This was a book I read via the Free Books app on my iPad. It has the entire series! I’ve never read any of them, and I was excited at the opportunity to read them. I really loved ready the original tale of Dorothy and her adventures in Oz. The good ol’ Judy Garland movie did the book justice…to a point. The land of the porcelain people, the story behind the flying monkeys, and the way the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion each ended up ruling different parts of Oz by the end of their journeys were new to me and I loved the way Baum settled the adventurers’ stories. I am really looking forward to the rest of books.

America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom by Michael Ian Black & Meghan McCain

Confession: I haven’t made much headway with this book yet (or should it be “still”?). I’ll have to give you, my lovely readers, a full review when I finally get back to reading this book and finish it. As it is, too many other books that seemed more appealing have been holding my attention instead.

How to Save Money at Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to Cut Spending by Kim Parsell

It’s a good thing this book was free. Not that it wasn’t well written or anything of the such! It’s just, if you read a lot of money-saving books and blogs, like I do, then this book doesn’t cover anything new. Honestly, the Economides covered this more thoroughly in their book. Still, it did offer some links to pages I want to check out, but haven’t gotten around to, that she provides to aid her readers in their frugal journey.

Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris

I love, love, love the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris, but have never really read any of her other work. My mom’s friend loaned the first three (of four, as far as I can tell) books in this series, and as she finished them, she handed them off to me. I gobbled them up. This series is about a woman whom was struck by lightening in her teens. Ever since that fateful incident, she has been able to find the dead and see the scene of their death (but she can’t see who killed someone or anything like that). She’s made a living, with the help of her step-brother, out of capitalizing on this unique ability. She goes around on jobs around the country that require her to either find a dead body or tell/confirm the decease’s cause of death.

In the first novel, a young man is killed, ruled a suicide, and Harper is called in to find his missing girlfriend–whom is believed to be dead. Harper does her job, but is trapped by the mystery around the death of these two love birds and the secrets the small town they lived in holds. Oh how I love paranormal mysteries!

Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris

How to Save Money at Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to Cut Spending by Kim Parsell

This was the only image of the book cover I could find that wasn’t tiny. Thanks, Amazon!

America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom by Meghan McCain, Michael Ian Black

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Free Books (P.S.-don’t get too excited, this is not a giveaway)

I tried to make the title of this post as un-misleading (it’s a word now!) as possible. I’ve been dancing in between books and I wanted to just share with you an app that’s made my life a treat.

TGF got me an iPad for Yule and the Free Books app was one of the first things I downloaded. It has over 20,000 classics of literature in it. All of which are completely FREE!!

It’s basic addition, really.

I love reading. + I love free things. = Free Books is an AMAZING app.

I’m going to post a link to it’s page in the iTunes store so if you have app capabilities, you too can enjoy this app.

Do you have any favorite reading apps?

Free Books – 23,469 classic to go

(This is not a paid review or anything of the sort. I just genuinely love this app. I wish iTunes/Apple would pay me to review stuff like this. Or anyone for that matter, ha! But even if they did, the opinion would still be 100% my own.)

January’s Reading Review

Going To The Bad by Nora McFarland

Found this in the crap box at work, and since I liked the last Lilly Hawkins Mystery I got out of there, I figured I’d read this one to past the time. A little side note about myself, I HATE reading a series out of order. With that said, I am fairly certain that there was a book in between A Bad Day’s Work and this book. Aside from being annoyed that I wasn’t getting some of the references in the book some things I missed, it was just as good as the first book. Still no Evanovich or Harris, but McFarland kept my attention.

Our Valued Customers: Conversations From The Comic Book Store by Tim Chamberlain

I originally got this book to give to Maile as a “Thank You!” for all the work she put into helping me host Annie’s bachelorette party. I ended up reading it myself and forgot to wrap it up. She saw it but it was too late at that point. She likes the blog, Our Valued Customers, and it is hilarious. If you like comic books and frequent the shops, you will get a laugh at the things people say in there.

Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland

Fanny Hill was in the “Banned Books” section on the Free Books app on my new iPad (thanks, TGF!). I like reading about ladies of pleasure so I figured I’d like this book too. It was VERY racy. I blushed a bit posting it on my blog! There are A LOT of sex scenes, but by the end of the book I was desperate for plot and over the hot and heaviness of the book. Mr. Cleland wrote it while in prison, if I remember the little blurb I read about the book via the app. I have to say, that I definitely got that this book was written by a man to be in the perspective of a woman. Just saying. Still, if you want a racy book written in fancy words, pick up Fanny Hill.