Author: Robin Chartier

plowed through Jon and Kate’s “Multiple Blessings” yesterday. Next up, the Duggars “20 and Counting.”

Ok, I cheated. I didn’t read book 2 and I skipped a little bit in book 3 cause it was about the boring stuff in book 2 that didn’t matter, but I finished. It was a very satisfying read.

I ended up skipping the Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen because the library notification came that book 3 was being held for me and I raced on over to pick it up. Hmmm, what shall I read next? I’m thinking a light biography like John and Kate . . . or maybe I’ll put reading on hold and pick up my tree quilt . . . decisions, decisions. Like deciding if I want coffee or chocolate ice cream, win win, win.

Finished Pamela Aidan’s “An Assembly Such as This,” book one of the Mr. Darcy trilogy. I really enjoyed seeing Pride and Prejudice through Mr. Darcy’s eyes. I have the next 2 books on hold at the library, but according to reviews, I’ll be better off skipping #2, since it deals exclusively with the time that Darcy spends away from Elizabeth.

My next choice may be “Suspense and Sensibility,” book 2 of the Mr and Mrs Darcy mysteries, but I don’t know that I’m up for another Gothic novel. I’d rather have a plain old mystery without any elements of magic. :eye roll:

Maybe I’ll start “The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen.” :running to check Amazon reviews:
Yes, this will be my next read — more positive than negative from the tough crowd at Amazon.

Coming up in the que: More biographical/autobiographical non-fiction family books.
The Duggars, John and Kate plus 8, another Jenny McCarthy book . . .

Mother Warriors by Jenny McCarthy (about her political and personal fight against autism) biography type book

Pride and Prescience by Carrie Bebris is in the Jane Austen Mystery genre. Mr. and Mrs. Darcy get married and have a mystery to solve, lol. There were some elements I enjoyed (like solving the mystery of the carriage accident,etc), but the mystical element was ho-hum to me and a cheaters way out of a really good puzzle.

I checked out her next book (the title is a play on the Sense and Sensibility title, “Suspense and Sensibility,” but still Mr and Mrs Darcy as characters). Another one I’m going to try is the Pride and Prejudice book written from Mr. Darcy’s point of view called “An Assembly Such as This” by Pamela Aidan.

A book I’m predicting to fall in the One Day Wonder category is the book “Watermelon by Marian Keys (could also fall in the Brit chick lit category.

All this to postpone going to my Arabic final. :sigh:

Finished Mistaken Identity (biography and autobiography of the college girls in an accident who were misidentified.)

Category could be One Day Wonder or some other non-fiction category that I have yet to designate.

Still working through Swallows and Amazons with the boys at night, but we’ve hit a rut and haven’t read for about a week now. Josh has been playing guitar for them or it’s staying light out so late that they play until 8:30 or 9 and it’s too late to read.