“Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.”-Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990), publisher. Happy New Year! Hope everyone rang in some new, exciting plans for 2007 and left the old ones not working with 2006. January feels fresh and new with all the snow we got on the very last day of December.
Anyone else getting ready to hibernate in the house with a bunch of great books with this cold weather? I know I am and that means lots of trips to the library and hopefully a few trips to some bookstores soon. I have gift cards waiting for me to pick out a new book or two. I hear the books calling my name... “Where is Human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”-Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887).
I finished Body Double by Tess Gerritsen and I just loved this book. Tess can pack a punch and leave you bewildered with too many thoughts when the story seems to veer off in another direction at one point or so she makes it seem this way. My brain was swirling with information towards the last couple of chapters in the book of who was it and oh my goodness it couldn’t be kind of thoughts. I had to finish this book and I did so at 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning right before the new year.
I also read Skipping Christmas and that was a hilarious book! You know if I wasn’t having any children coming home for Christmas and they asked for no presents I would have done almost everything the Kranks tried to do. I would have put up a tree and a few lights but most of the decorating would have stayed boxed. As for the parties, well I might have had a small dinner party for a few friends on Christmas Eve to celebrate the season and given to a few charities, but the Kranks chose to give up everything to go on a cruise including good tasting food. Yep, they even started to lose weight and bought tanning packages to be prepared for the trip. “Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.”-David Starr Jordan (1851-1931), educator and writer.
I started one of the new picks for January and boy was it a good one. Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen was a scream from the first page where Joey has this to ponder, “I married an asshole, she thought, knifing headfirst into the waves.” Her husband just pushes her off the cruise ship which he planned for their second anniversary. Nice guy Chaz Perrone, except he forgets his wife is an expert swimmer so she survives and comes back to haunt him with ex-cop Mick Stranahan. Oh, Joey wants revenge and she so does get her just rewards.
My first book by Carl and I definitely highly suggest for men and women to pick up a book by this author and soon. I was so hooked with the characters and storyline that I finished this book on New Year’s Day. My kids told me to stop laughing because I was too loud, okay, Not! My good friend Marcie told me to pick up Strip Tease by Carl because that was her absolute favorite but I think I might check out the two titles our library has: Sick Puppy and Basket Case. Chat with you soon my friends. Don’t forget to read something great this week. “Nothing’s better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you; and your friends beside you.”-Aaron Douglas Trimble
