And now for something completely different

Now I'm reading everything I can get my hands on - as long as it is light and doesn't make me have to think!

First up is "By Hook or By Crook" by Betty Hechtman about the Tarzana Hookers - the crocheting group that meets at a bookstore. Molly Pink, a widow, with two grown sons is the one the others elect to find out who left the bag with the filet crochet panels on their table at the craft fair. By figuring out what all of the panels mean and what they pertain to along with the diary page and letter that hints at wanting to right a wrong. Silly story but I stayed with it.

"The Stars Blue Yonder" by Sandra McDonald is the third novel about Jodenny Scott and Terry Myell, members of Team Space, wife and husband, separated by time and space. Terry is forced to jump back and forth in time by a device over which he has no control. He meets his wife when she's newly widowed, when she's very pregnant and when she's 70 years-old. While she recognizes him, she doesn't believe his story - until she is accidentally taken with him. Then she ends up in Australia of 1855, terribly pregnant and unprepared for life in that time period. While none of this made much sense to me, it made for good reading.

"Blood Atonement" by Dan Waddell is a page-turner that made me want to read the end to make sure it came out alright. A single mother has been found in her garden with her throat cut and her fourteen-year-old daughter missing. It's pretty obvious that the daughter is NOT the murderer so the police will be looking into the mother's background - only, there doesn't seem to be one. This is the second mystery involving DCI Grant Foster, DI Heather Jenkins and genealogist Nigel Barnes. The three of them will put their lives on the line to find this girl and try to avoid other deaths - but they won't entirely succeed. More blood is spilled by a person who seems to hate all members of a particular family. The link will lead to a branch of the Mormon Church in Utah. A bit of the present day problems linked to the past. But as Harriet Klausner says on Amazon "Leave your plausibilty meter parked elsewhere."

Sometimes it's dangerous for me to work on the books - in this case, changing new to old. I found two light reads that I thought would keep me occupied. "Summer Blowout" by Claire Cook had the cutest little dog in a beach bag on the cover - that sold me on this one. It's about a big family of hairdressers whose father is Irish but sells his salons as being Italian. Bella is going through a difficult patch since her sister took up with her husband. Bella meets a cute guy at a college fair and even though they bicker, he gives her a great business idea - or helps her come up with a great idea. When the whole Shaughnessy clan goes to Atlanta for a wedding, cute guy happens to be there as well. The dog comes in when Bella does a wedding party - hair and make-up and then gets stuck with two kids and when she hands them back, she's left with a dog!

"Like a Charm" by Candace Havens has a picture on the cover of a woman in four inch heels and a tight yellow suit on a ladder in front of library shelves - yeah, like that's going to happen. Magic town of Sweet, Texas is where corporate contract lawyer Kira Smythe has come home to recuperate after suffering from mono and a few other nasty things. She's fired from her job and left the town library in the will of the last librarian - it just gets sillier from there. Hippie, tofu loving parents who have managed to make quite a living for themselves - in fact it seems as if everyone in this town is wealthy.