February Reading Review

Book Club

This month wasn’t a normal meeting. We did a book browsing and chocolate tasting in order to get more B&N costumers interested in the Romance Book Club. We’re hoping more people join so we can do more author events. We’re keeping our fingers crossed.

2011 Support your Local Library Challenge

I checked out five books this month (as well as a bunch of DVDs and CDs). I finished reading two of the books rather quickly, A Shore Thing and Marrying Daisy Bellamy. I’m still working on Claude and Camille from last month and really couldn’t focus more attention on Fannies Last Supper and Decision Points. I returned Fannies Last Supper with Plans to check it out again and I checked Decision Points out as an ebook and couldn’t get very far in it during my 2 week check out period. Assholes Finish First was just checked out so I’m reading that, Tucker Max can only be taken in small doses.

1. Fannie's last supper : re-creating one amazing meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 cookbook by Christopher Kimball

2. A Shore Thing by Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi

3. Marrying Daisy Bellamy by Susan Wiggs

4. Decision Points by Geroge W. Bush

5. Assholes Finish First by Tucker Max

Men in Uniform 2011 Reading Challenge

I finished five more books during this month. I found a new series about Navy Seals by Mary Margret Daughtride and I’m waiting for the fourth book to come out soon. I also finished two more books in the Suzanne Brockmann series. I’m finding I have quite an addiction right now to stories about Seals.

SEALed with a Kiss by Mary Margret Daughtridge
SEALed with a Promise by Mary Margret Daughtridge
SEALed with a Ring by Mary Margret Daughtridge
Frisco's Kid by Suzanne Brockmann
Everyday Average Jones by Suzanne Brockmann

Nora Roberts Reading Challenge

I got back to reading Nora Roberts books this month. I read Risky Business and Indulgence in Death.

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