Books 14, 15, 16

Time for more books! Seems like I always end up posting about 3 at a time, which I swear I'm not doing on purpose, just when I need a "filler" post that's how many I've read in between.

#14
Death Masks
Dresden Files Book 5
Jim Butcher

I read this book in under 2 days. Part of it I think was having it available right after I finished the last one, just continuing on in the world, but another part is that I think, much though I've enjoyed James Patterson's books, he's not cracking my top authors list. Whereas Jim Butcher is definitely in my top 10 & maybe my top 5 (the top 5 is kind of shifty ... kinda depends on who I'm currently reading & who has a book coming out next that I'm most looking forward to at the moment).

#15
6th Target
Women's Murder Club Book 6
James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

This book dragged for me. It's like it was interesting while I was reading it, and I'd even go so far as to say hard to put down, but it didn't make me pick it back up again. It took me a whole week to get through, and I think I only managed that quick because I wanted to get to what I had ready for next.

#16
Blood Rites
Dresden Files Book 6
Jim Butcher

Ah, trust & family, 2 things that hopefully - but unfortunately not necessarily - go together. And poor Harry -the main character of the Dresden files - has his share of issues with both. One of the reasons that I really enjoy Jim Butcher is that he's been doing foreshadowing for some of the stuff that got revealed in this book since book 1. And that's just pretty cool to me, a skill that some authors have in much greater share than others.

I'm reading Book 7 right now, & I've got the rest of the Dresden files sitting on the floor next to my desk, out from the library (through book 10) & I hope to have them finished before #11 comes out in April.

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

Books 11, 12, 13

I've just gone through the irritation of removing glitter polish & will be doing a fresh color shortly, so I'll have some NOTD pics to post tomorrow, but for now I've got some catching up with my book list:

#11
Mona Lisa Darkening
Monere Book 4
Sunny

I needed a break from the Women's Murder club & the stress of waiting for the twist to happen, and this is where I started. Sometimes I lose track of publication dates for everything I'm waiting on, so it was a nice surprise when this showed up on Hold for me.

#12
Bone Crossed
Mercy Thompson Book 4
Patricia Briggs

This is one of my favorite series (you'll actually probably hear me say that a lot). It was an interesting experience of judging a book by it's cover, because the first book in the series actually did attract my attention because of the awesome cover art by Daniel Dos Santos. I figured, they're not going to give the great cover artist to the crappy author, and I was right.

#13
Summer Knight
Dresden Files Book 4
Jim Butcher

It took forever to get this book, because for whatever dumb reason the library only had 1 copy & like 40 requests so I had to wait & wait & wait to get it but now that I've gotten over this rough patch, the rest of the series they have more available books so I (hopefully) shouldn't run into the same problem again.

I still don't feel like I'm back on track as far as my normal reading pace. I guess there has been a lot going on lately, but I've got to find more time to squeeze books in. Thanks for reading.

~Colette