August Book Review!

 

 

 

 

 

Yay!

 

It’s book review day!

 

First, I have one little piece of housekeeping news for you. I have merged my two blogs Vogue Happiness and Jean Claire Monroe. My plan was to leave them as two stand alone blogs, but in the end, merging seemed to be the right choice.

 

However…

 

Everything got a little wonky. Pictures did not import correctly and some of the text is off. Please be patient with me as I get things straightened out around here!

 

Back to the books!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You know how much I love books, so I made my family search downtown Inverness for the famous Leakey’s Book Shop when we were in Scotland. I was in hog heaven! And I was the only one that didn’t buy a thing!

 

 

With that long plane ride, and the fact that I always have my nose buried in a book, here’s my August reads for you!

 

 

 

 

Unstuffed

 

I really enjoyed Ruth’s Living Well, Spending Less (and for you bloggers, How to Blog for Profit Without Selling Your Soul is also good), so I was looking forward to reading Unstuffed. It was by far my favorite of her books. She really opens up more about herself and less about her business which I appreciate. I have a hard time liking a book if I don’t feel a connection with the author. Through personal stories, biblical truth, and practical action plans,she inspires and empowers readers to finally declutter not just their homes, but their minds and souls as well.

 

 

 

 

 

The Summer I Turned Pretty

 

I have downloaded three Jenny Han books to my Kindle recently, and this is the first one I read. It was a light, easy read while on the elliptical. Belly (an unfortunate name!) lives for summers. Everything good happens between the months of June and August. But one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.

 

 

 

 

 

I Am Number Four

 

I read this one on a recommendation from a friend. Normally I stay away from the futuristic/dystopian genre, but this one was okay. I probably won’t read the rest of the series though. John Smith seems like an ordinary teenager, living a normal life with his guardian Henri in Ohio. But John is not an ordinary teenager. He’s an alien from the planet Lorien, and he’s on the run. A group of evil aliens from the planet Mogadore, who destroyed his world, are hunting anyone who escaped. Yep… I actually read this one.

 

 

 

 

 

Where We Belong

 

Emily Giffin is a favorite among the chick-lit authors, but I’ve only read one of hers before Where We Belong. I really liked this one! One night Marian answers a knock on the door only to find Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past that Marian thought she had sealed off forever.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PLL Book 14

 

I’m still working my way through the Pretty Little Liars series finishing book 14.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1st to Die

 

I’ve been in a new purging/organizing phase and I was confronted with just how many books I have collected through the years. James Patterson is one of my all-time favorite authors, so I decided to try to work my way through a few of his to see which can stay and which can go in the sell pile. The Women’s Murder Club is here to stay. (Shocker, I know…)

 

 

 

2nd Chance

 

 

 

 

3rd Degree

 

 

As always, I welcome any suggestions you have for some new reads. Leave me a comment if you have a good recommendation!

 

 

 

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