Book Report

I love to read.  I don't always have a book going, and I'm not the most wide-read person - I pretty much only read for fun and pretty much stick to what I like without branching out too far - but I love the escape of a book.  Odd fact about me:  lately I do most of my reading while I dry my hair in the morning.  I know, odd, but I hate doing my hair and reading makes it more enjoyable.  If it's a really good book, it does tend to make me late, though.  So in an effort to spread the joy, I thought I'd share the list of the last few books that I've read in case anyone needs any recommendations:

• Memoirs of a Geisha - didn't expect to like it since this is a little out of my norm, but I really, really did.
• The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire - The first one is a good whodunnit (love those).  They're a little dark, but good reads.
• The entire Janet Evanovich series (One For the Money, Two For the Dough...it's up to Sizzling Sixteen now) - these are pure fun with really great characters.  Excellent vacation reading.  This would make the most excellent TV show but they did decide to make a movie out of the first one - comes out next year.
• The Nanny Diaries and Nanny Returns - the first one is way better.
• 10-10-10 by Suzy Welch - this is definitely out of my norm since as a rule I hate self-help-type books, but I was intrigued after hearing about it on the radio.  It lays out a very common-sense approach to making tough decisions.  It can be used by anyone because it doesn't tell you what you should do, it poses a series of questions in order to help you figure it out for yourself based on your values, your faith.   I loaned it to a friend and I'm curious if she read it and what she thought of it.

Currently reading:  The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest - the last in the series, unless they figure out how to publish the manuscript that Stieg Larsson wrote before he died.

On deck (courtesy of my Dad):  American Assassin by Vince Flynn.  Dad says it's a really good intrigue.  Sounds intriguing.