I realise it's been a long while since I posted. When I found out that Blogger would no longer support FTP, it really drained me and made me not want to post. Disheartening to say the least.

I will be moving the blog over to wordpress, but that's going to take me a lot of work. So if my entries are few and far between forgive me (not that anyone reads this, but I'd like to think they do lol).

Anyway, as such I've fallen behind on posting my one book a week reviews. I'm not behind, I'm actually a book a head. But here is a quick little review of the books I've made my way through so that it doesn't seem like I've given up.

Week 4
True Colours
By Sue Haasler

Week 5
Chill Factor
By Rachel Caine

Week 6
Last Summer of You and Me
By Ann Brashares

Week 7
Can You Keep a Secret?
By Sophie Kinsella

Mostly all very light reading, but it's what I've been able to get myself into. Right now I'm sluggishly making my way through an Agatha Christie (usually I really enjoy them but it's been like pulling teeth), and I'm reading a Jennifer Weiner book (not enjoying it as much either). I think they are both jus tvery serious books and I can't bring myself to do serious right now. Oh wells.

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I'm not behind reading (I'm actually a book ahead), but I didn't want my blog to be entirely made up of my crappy book reviews. That why we have a break in between.

Fly Me to the Moon
By Alyson Noel

This was a fun book. Definitely a chicklit book, but it was so much fun that I breezed through it in no time.

One of the things I find with these books, however, is that they are utterly predictable. As soon as the main character and the guy she would end up with (this is a chicklit book after all, they always end up together) made his first appearance, I knew that was who she would be with. And they hardly had a passing glance together.

This is a shot review, I know. :P

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So in an attempt to get ahead on my "one book a week" resolution, I have been reading like crazy.

Heat Wave
By Richard Castle

If you haven't seen the TV show Castle (starring Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic) on ABC yet, then you are crazy. It is a terrific new take on the standard procedural crime shows like CSI and NCIS. While it's still your traditional person gets murdered and the police/forensics/navy guys have to figure out who did it and why, they give it a much more lighthearted spin. In the series, it is Kate Beckett (played by Stana Katic), a police murder detective, who has been slumped with Richard Castle (played by Nathan Fillion). Castle is a novelist, who called in a favour to the mayor to be allowed to follow around a police team so that he can research his new book.

The pair make a great comedic duo, but not in typical "slapstick" comedic way. It's very witty humour, typical stuff you'd get from the characters that Fillion usually plays. There is also that relationship connection / spark type thing between Castle and Beckett, that leaves you wondering what if...

Throughout season one, Castle is researching for his new book, based on a new character (since he killed off his usual protagonist in his last book). At the beginning of season two, the book is released and the series is now peppered with jokes about the book that Castle has written.

So what did ABC do? They released the book that Castle wrote! It's got FIllion as Castle on the back as the author and everything.

The book is great, and reads just like an episode of the show. There is still that same partner dynamic, but this time between Castle's fictional characters Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook. All the references to the book in the TV show match up exactly with the book (yes, the sex scene is on page 105, and the dedication on the front of the book is exactly the same).

When I ordered the book into the store, I was surprised at how thin it was (it's only 208 pages in hardcover), so I didn't have high expectations for it. But it was definitely a great book to read, especially if you're a fan of the show!

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So in my endeavour to keep up with my resolution to read more books, I figured I would try to keep a record of them all here my blog. You may not be excited for that, but I certainly am!

Ill Wind
By Rachel Caine

This is the second book in the Weather Warden series. I don't normally go for fantasy books (I read them if I have them). But we got a few of this series in at the bookstore a few weeks back, and I loved the cover design of them. I didn't really think about reading them until a customer ordered in one. For some reason I decided to read the blurb on the back and thought that it sounded interesting enough. I'd read enough Star Trek books to do me until 2020, so something different might be a change of pace for me.

So I went and ordered in the first of the series.

Oh my goodness, I was addicted. I polished the first book of in a couple days. And the next tiem I was at work I ordered the next one.

It was just as good. The ending was one of those that made me want to jump up and say "what?! No!" It was totally NOT what I was expecting, which is probably a good thing considering predictable books can be booooring. And if a book is boring I WILL stop reading it, that's just the way it is. I mean, why should I keep reading a book that I'm not enjoying?

Anyway, the main character, Joanne, is one of those kick butt heroines a la Charlie's Angels or Alias. It's always fun to have female leads who aren't dumb bunnies who always need to be rescued. Of course, sometimes even a kick butt chick needs to be saved, but usually she's at least put the sweat in to try and get herself out of the situation.

All in all I enjoyed this book. Can't wait for the next one to come in so I can devour it too. :D

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