The Marrying Kind

All Lizzie ever wanted was to get married and design wedding gowns, so did she do it? Well, I'm not going to tell you. ;) I will tell you that The Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Meg Cabot is an odd bit of chick-lit. I liked it, but had some issues with how the book unfolded. I'm not going to give anything away, but I found some things oddly convenient. I kind of think the author shouldn't have made it so easy for us to forgive Lizzie. It just bothered me.

The Dead Speak!

Wow! These girls in Pretty Little Liars are so screwed up! Almost every one of them is delinquent in some way or another. One's a klepto with an eating disorder, another is having a relationship with a teacher, yet another is stealing her sister's serious (and older) boyfriend, and the last one is just trying to get out from under her parents' thumb. She's the only one who isn't doing something she could get in serious trouble for! And is Alison really dead? If so, who is sending the cryptic notes, emails, and text messages? I've got to get the next book in the series so I can find out what happens.
Woo-who! Another Meg Cabot book! The thrid in her Queen of Babble series: Queen of Babble Gets Hitched. I just started it, but I loved the first two! I hope I like this one just as much!

Crying is Good for You

I finished The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks, and as usual with his books I cried like a baby! I'm trying to think of a book of his that I didn't cry while reading, and I can't come up with one. I specifically remember bawling my eyes out while reading A Walk to Remember. The Last Song has to be one of my favorite Nicholas Sparks books. I like the fact that it's not a completely depressing ending. Most of his books are that way in the end, bittersweet. I do hate the fact that I couldn't stop picturing the actors from the movie as the characters because I really don't think they match-up too well with the book descriptions. I feel that way about some books, but others don't bother me.
Since I finished The Last Song Saturday night, I'm already halfway through my next book, Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard. It's the first in the series, and yes, it's what the ABC Family TV series is based on. I have to tell you, though, that I've had this book for awhile, before there was anything about a TV series. So far, I'm really enjoying the book. I'm already halfway through this book and I only started reading it yesterday morning. These girls are seriously flawed, but that makes for a good story!

Bad Dog!

Last night I finished reading The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It took me longer than I would have liked to read it simply because I haven't had an enormous amount of time to read lately. I've been too busy with real life in the past couple of weeks. I'm looking forward to the week of Thanksgiving. I'll have an entire week off, and, hopefully, I'll get to read a bit more. I've also started a new workout regimen that I can already tell is going to kick my butt!
Now, back to the book. I have to say I really enjoyed it! Sherlock Holmes has always fascinated me. His mind works in such an interesting way. The way he explains his process to Dr. Watson just makes everything seem so obvious. You wonder how you could've missed that clue. Things unfold in such a fluid manner. They just seem to naturally lead to the other.
Next book, The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. No, I haven't seen the movie. I am avoiding it until after I read the book. I always read a Nicholas Sparks book first and then I see the movie adaptation.