Tuesday, August 3, 2010

"Obsessive Obsession" by Toye Brown

I recently learned that one of my co-workers also published a book, Obsessive Obsession, through Outskirts Press so we exchanged books.  Obsessive Obsession is Toye Brown’s first book.   It is a romantic suspense novel that starts slow but picks up speed as it goes.  It is about the love lives of a wealthy minister’s four daughters, Toni, Nayla, Belle and Tina, who find love with good men.  The suspense comes when someone tries to extort money from the family and puts all of them in danger.  Instead of reporting it to the authorities, the women and their boyfriend detectives and husbands work together to solve it on their own.  Although the women were raised in a Christian family, they depart from their Christian upbringing when they become romantically involved.         

I liked the story line showing how the family supported one another and worked together to get to the bottom of the mystery of who was doing the stalking and trying to destroy them.  Of the couples, I liked Nayla and Ben the best.  My favorite line was when Tina said to Nayla, “Oh my god, Nayla, you are a walking disaster waiting to happen.”  I would classify this as a light humorous suspense romance with a sweet happy ending. 

It has some bad language and the couples calling each other “baby” all the time got on my nerves.  I had a hard time at the beginning keeping all the characters straight so appreciated the list of characters in the Prologue which I found myself referring back to quite often.  It was very helpful.  If you are looking for great literature, this isn’t it. However, if you can overlook a lot of spelling errors, and let yourself enjoy the story, it’s worth your while.  
(Karen's Review) 
Torey's website is Welcome To Toye's Place

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Why Can't U Teach Me 2 Read? by Beth Fertig

Why Can't U Teach Me 2 Read? by Beth Fertig tells the story of three people who got out of the school system barely being able to read at all.  They finally get help.  Some of the book is dry reading but the part that deals with the three people trying to read and understand what they read makes for riveting reading. (30 stars)
(Gerard's review 11/05/09)

Monday, August 2, 2010

"Little Girl Blue--The Life Of Karen Carpenter" by Randy L. Schmidt

 A Sad Tale--An Outstanding Read!
This is the type of book I devour:  non-fiction that I am not fully up to speed on the subject.  Little Girl Blue--The Life of Karen Carpenter by Randy L. Schmidt is a sad story about her life.  I found myself rooting for Karen to get through her disorder even though I knew she didn’t.  The writing is superb and the last 100 pages or so I found it hard to put this book down.  I highly recommend you read this book.  What a gift God gave her--we miss you, Karen!

(Gerard's review)

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Sunday, August 1, 2010

The Bookstore Test--What Does Your Taste In Books Say About You?

Here are the questions:

1. Imagine you've just entered a bookstore, and you're in the fiction section. What do you look at?
* Mystery
* Contemporary fiction
* Classics
* Science Fiction
I look at contemporary fiction and mystery, but I could only pick one so went with contemporary fiction.

2. You make your way to non-fiction. What catches your eye?
* True crime
* Home and garden
* Self help
* History
Actually, the biographies do, but it's not an option here so I went with history.

3. You now stop to browse at the magazines. You mostly look at:
* Travel
* Fashion
* News
* Food
I chose news.

4. You leave the bookstore with:
* A few books
* A bag full of books and magazines
* One book
* Nothing
I would leave with nothing. I just like to browse in bookstores and get my books from the library.

Here's my results:


You Are Modern






You are optimistic and forward looking. You love living in this world.

You have a good memory for facts. You always are an ace at trivia.

People excite you. You like to be up on what's going on with everyone you know and don't know!

You're going through a phase where nothing seems particularly interesting to you.


Take the quiz or just share some of your answers to any of the above questions in the comments. If you take the quiz, please post your results in the comments.
The Bookstore Test

"Public Enemies" by Bryan Burrough

Public Enemies:  America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough and Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan are so far tie for my number 1 books of 2009.  This book is about the gangster era of the early 30s featuring Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger and a few more.  

The stories about these people are so fascinating that it made me want to keep reading.  A ton of research went into making this book come alive.  I really, really enjoyed this book and plan to see the movie based on it one day.  I think this book would appeal more to men than women though--a great read!
(Gerard's review 9/09)

I got the DVD and started watching it but was disappointed in it.  The book is so much better!

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