Books June 2012

June has flown by, I have not read the pile of picture books on my den floor and need to get to those. Here's the list of adult books read in June. Mostly lighter reads than last month, but a few enlightening ones as well.

Lots of fun reads this month, so I decided to list them in rank order, hard to do, since they are such different genres. Will try to do better with postings in July!

1.     I've got you number by Sophie Kinsella

2. If I loved you, I would tell you this by Robin Black

3. Banishing Verona by Margot Levesey

4. The brutal telling by Louise Penny

5. Bel Canto by Anne Patchett

6. The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood

7. Whatever you love by Louise Doughty

8. Confessions of a shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

9. Victims by Jonathan Kellermnan

10.         Gun games by Faye Kellerman

11.         Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen

12.         Yours, mine and ours by Maryjanice Davidson (did not finish)

1.     This is slapstick writing at its best. I loved this predictable romantic comedy because the comedy was anything but predictable! Read it, you will laugh outloud!

2.     Short stories that are so riveting, I wanted to know more about each of the characters. Black is comparable to Alice Munro, one of the greatest!

3.     An unusual love story told from the viewpoints of both star-crossed lovers, one of whom is a young man with autistic tendencies.

4.     The fifth Louise Penny mystery, good enough to eat! They may not be getting better, but they are certainly maintaining a high level of readability.

5.     I liked this book, read on the recommendation of my sister, but liked State of Wonder better; maybe Patchett’s books have that effect, the first one, whichever you read first, will always be the best.

6.     Never having read this before, I enjoyed it, although it is truly a scary look at one possible future for our country. All I can say is “Don’t let the bastards beat you down.”

7.     The story of a divorced woman who loses her daughter to an auto accident, her thoughts and actions for the first few months after her daugther’s death. This is well-written and extremely sad. Why do I read this stuff?

8.     Another Sophie Kinsella. I did not enjoy this nearly as much as I’ve Got Your Number, but it was still funny and a quick read.

9.     Psychological murder at its best. It may be that J. Kellerman is running out of stories to tell.

10. The wife tells tales, too. I do like the characters of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. They grow old gracefully, but will Kellerman ever let Peter retire?

11. A tongue in cheek romp through aristocratic life in the early 1900s. Fun, but nothing to write home about.

12. I thought I might like this, but could not finish reading it. Too many problems and no one to like.