1. Life, Libby, and the Pursuit of Happiness- Hope Lyda 2.5 out of 5. Starts off good, gets preachy. Another Christian book that caught me by surprise. I really must start reading the synopsis of the books before I grab them off the shelves.
2. Diary of a Married Call Girl- Tracy Quan- 3.5 out of 5. Yep, followed a Christian Lit novel with a call girl novel. Some pretty hot sex scenes, S&M, Lesbian and other themes usually not found in mainstream lit.
3. Once Upon a Nervous Breakdown- Patrick Sanchez- 3.5 out of 5. A woman is left by her husband when he comes out. Her mother goes into declining health. A story of the sandwich generation. I cried.
4. Venus Envy- Shannon McKelden- Unrateable. I must confess that I barely skimmed this book. It was dreadful. The goddess Venus is stuck on Earth, and must atone to Zeus by becoming a Fairy Godmother to random, luckless women. Blergh.
5. Out of This World- Jill Shalvis- 2 out of 5. A paranormal that fails. Beings from another dimension vacation in Alaska. An unknowing woman inherits their vacation spot. Powers are transferred. Chaos ensues. And Pirates from another dimension show up to steal the powers. Lame story. Bad execution.
6. The Lightening Thief- Rick Riordan- 4.5 out of 5. The first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Yes, it's kid lit. But it fills just a tiny piece of the Harry Potter sized hole in my heart. Good enough that I bought the entire series. Read it!
7. I'm Not Julia Roberts- Laura Ruby- 3 out of 5. A second wife figures out her relationship with her step-kids. Confusing chronology, at times the book goes back in time. Or maybe the whole book went back in time, and I didn't notice until the end.
8. The Ex-Factor- Andrea Semple- Unrateable. Undreadable. Andrea Semple, you are dead to me as an author, until the next time I forget that you write dreck and I mistakenly pick up another of your books because of the pretty cover.
March was a disappointing month. The books I choose were for the most part, horrible. The discovery of the Percy Jackson series was the high-point, literary wise.
Book Count- 36 of 100 read.
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I'm Not Julia Roberts sounds like an interesting premise...one I'm living!!! Sad it didn't live up to that premise. I'm reading Julie and Julia right now...lovin' it so much I've bought her second book.
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