Summertime Reading

I decided since I wasn't busy building a house or planning a wedding this summer, I would read!!

I love Jennifer Weiner so I picked this book up. Once I saw it was about addiction, I had to read it.

I've been reading Janet Evaonvich for years and even though they are getting redundant at book twenty. I still read.

I've had this book for years and I've never picked it up. I really liked it. It's about a lady and her husband tries to kill her by throwing her overboard during their cruise. She swims to safety and sets out to get revenge. At the same time she is falling for the guy who rescues her.

Very good young adult novel about a boy with a deformed face and the challenges he faces.

LOVE this book!! Can't wait to see the movie.

I went to church with Adam Brown. I never really knew him, but my mom was and his parents knew each other. I've been wanting to read this book and finally purchased it through my Kindle App. Adam Brown was a Hot Springs boy who got mixed up with the wrong crowd and drugs in high school. Once he hit rock bottom he decided he was going to become a Navy Seal. Life was still hard and he encountered a few slip ups, but he found true love and God helped him overcome. This is a story of his courage and sacrifice for our country. I read it in two days and cried the whole way through. My brother had the same struggles with drugs in Hot Springs and our family endured some of the same heartaches.

School starts soon with two weeks of professional development, so I'm glad I got some summer reading but before life becomes hectic.

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