Nutz4 Reading's Thoughts....

Have you ever heard of Paper Towns? I didn't know what to expect when I picked up this book by John Green. This book was recommended by an online friend from my website. I am glad I finally read it. I found the story very entertaining. The story made me think about my time in high school. Paper Towns is the story of teenagers and just them discovering things about themselves and their friends. How would you react if you just learned that your boyfriend and best girl friend were hooking up? Your friends knew but didn't bother to tell you? Would you just snap or would you do something like Margo Roth Spiegelman does in Paper Towns. Paper Towns follows Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman on an adventure and mystery. Q is the good kid and doesn't do anything wrong. Margo is the adventurous type. Two different personalities that were friends when the were young yet have grown apart like so many of us do over time. I suggest taking some time and pick up Paper Towns and jus

I won this book through Library Thing's Early Reviewers Program (ER).  I want to that both Library Thing and Putnam books for giving me this opportunity to read and review this book. Silent Enemy is the story of Major Parson and Sergeant Gold. We were first introduced to these two characters in Young's previous book The Mullah's Storm. I am not familiar with that book yet I still found Silent Enemy easy to follow. Major Parson is pilot in the Air-force and Sergeant Gold is from the Army working as a teacher in Afghanistan to help train those who want to become police and make Afghanistan a better place. Her school/police office is bombed and students and staff are injured. Gold and her friends and colleagues become patients of Major Parson's aircraft.   Parson's aircraft is now considered an Air Evac mission. The story doesn't get interesting until the Air Evac is in flight and they learn of a bomb threat to all aircraft that left Bagram Air Base. Parson&#

Now many may be surprised to learn that I never read this book as a child.  I have heard of it but wan never one to read books just because everyone said they were good or that I should read them.  I could be very defiant when it came to reading. I am glad that I did finally read this book.  I have seen parts of the movie but never from the beginning.  This is a very nice story of a girl, two boys and a secret garden.  The names of the children are Mary, Dickon and Colon. Mary is quite contrary is what children from India called her when she lived there with her parents.  When her parents and everyone she knew had died she was sent to live with her uncle.  At first she was not happy to be in England.  She is very thin and looks ill but once she starts venturing outside and getting exercise and fresh air everyone notices how she grows and changes. She meets Dickon and those two start taking care of the Secret Garden.  One night Mary hears some one crying  and is determined to find

I am very upset about the news I just heard.  My favorite book store is closing all of their stores.  If you haven't heard it is Borders that is closing all of the remaining stores that are open.  When I found out about this I was very upset and now wondering if I will have to go to B&N for all my book purchases.  I don't care that much for Amazon as a book seller.  And I feel that B&N can be over priced.  Those are just my opinions. I used to shop at B&N before I realized that there was a Borders just down the street from B&N.  I have gone to midnight parties for Harry Potter and Twilight at both B&N and Borders.  I felt more like family at Borders then I did at B&N.  I remember my sister working for Waldenbooks and just hearing her stories about the books, customers and the people she worked with.  Now I just have to get my emotions in check so that I can decide where I will be buying my books.  I always ask for gift cards to Borders because I know

I am slowly making my way through the Sookie Stackhouse series.  I started reading the series due to my online friends at Books and Chat talking about the series on HBO called True Blood.  I wanted to watch True Blood and realized I also wanted to read the books before hand.  I will say that the HBO series doesn't follow the books completely.  I still love both of them. The sixth installment of the Sookie Stackhouse series.  I enjoyed the book and the stories.  Sookie again is mixed up with trouble and she tries to figure out who has made her a target again.  I did get tired of being reminded of what happened in the previous book. There wasn't as much romance in this book as in the previous books.  There was one scene where Sookie and her newest supe interest were fully clothed and both were sexually satisfied.  I found that scene interesting because it made me think of two teenagers having sex for the first time and not being able to get undressed before having an orgasm.

I don't believe I ever posted a full list of all the books I read in 2010.  Now I have decided to post them, a little late but now you can see how my reading was in 2010: January The Lovely Bones   by Alice Sebold The Picture of Dorian Gray   by Oscar Wilde The Surgeon   by Tess Gerritsen You did it for me   by Robert   Hug American Wife   by Curtis Sittenfeld Living Dead in Dallas   by Charlaine Harris February Dear John   by Nicholas Sparks The Daughter of Time   by Josephine Tey The Zookeeper's Wife   by Diane Ackerman Club Dead   by Charlaine Harris March When the Phone Rang   by Harry Mazer The Art of Racing in the Rain   by Garth Stein Final Target   by Iris Johansen April Genoa Bay   by Bette Nordberg The Soloist   by Steve Lopez The Broken Blue Line   by Connie Dial May Down River   by John Hart Flash Terminal Velocity   by Mark Waid Someone Is Out There   by Carole Standish Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness   by Sidney Sheldon Shutt

Well I am posting this to inform you that a friend of mine is having a contest. Here is the link to the contest http://musingsofabookshopgirl.blogspot.com/2011/07/page-to-screen-launches-with-giveaway.html Good luck and read her reviews. She is a wonderful young lady!!

Here is a list of all the books I have read this year. My goal is to read at least 75 books by Dec. 31 2011. I think I am doing a good job so far. I only need 35 books in just about 5 months. List of books 2011: January 1. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel ( finished 1/18/11)TIOLI Challenge January #1 2. Damaged by Alex Kava (finished 1/19/11) TIOLI Challenge January #7 3. Blind Man's Alley by Justin Peacock (finished 1/24/11 4. Dead Center by Joanna Higgins (finished 1/27/11) February 5. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (finished 2/5/11) 6. To Hold the Crown by Jean Plaidy (finished 2/22/11) 7. Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay (finished 2/13/11) 8. Aftermath:A Snapped Novel by Tracy Brown (finished 2/26/11) TIOLI Challenge February March 9. Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez (finished 3/5/11) 10. For One More Day by Mitch Albom (finished 3/6/11) 11. gone with a handsomer man by Michael Lee West (finished 3/14/11) 12. So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson (

I will be catching up on my blog writing over the next couple of weeks. I have fallen behind on posting my reviews here and just talking about books and things. I will be changing a little bit of my blogs by also posting about movies I have seen or would like to see. Look for reviews to begin again soon.