January 6, 2010

It is still cold. We are supposed to have even more snow, but I am content with my red snuggie socks, coffee, and a new book: "Princess of the Midnight Ball" by Jessica Day George. Mom is still trying to make me read "The Friendship Factor" by Alan Loy McGinnis, but since it's a very boring non-fiction "self-help" book, i hate it and have been reading it for over a week. Is mommy saying I need more friends? Uhhhhha, idk, i like being a hermit. I set up this blog today, and it took all day. I still have 3 books to put reviews on but dad will be home soon and he don't like when I'm on his laptop. My day has been content with my younger siblings playing "Secret Agent" around the house and Power Rangers on the PS2 all day, while mom is making a COMPLETE home-made, Joy of Cooking, lemon meringue pie! She made the crust, pudding and even the meringue! But since we broke our mixer trying to make peanut butter cookies a while back, I was the mixer. So of course I hurt my self. First, the end of the metal mixer made a sore on my hand, then on the inside of my right forearm, my muscle or tendon is like popping out and it hurts. Other than that, all that's happened to me is my morning ritual of tripping down the stairs and stubbing my toes. !!!!!!!!!! It's snowing again!!!!!! well I HAVE to go get pictures so have a happy, joy filled day!...................... ug that sounds to Martha Stewart-y. Wateva, see ya'

~ The Clumsy Reader aka Christine

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The Snow Bride

Name: The Snow Bride
Author: Debbie Macomber
Pages: 234
Start Date: January 2
Finish Date: January 2
Type: Adult Romance; Hardback
Status: Library

Rating:

Summary: A Second-chance bride,practical Jenna Walsh has done something impractical. she's met a man on the internet and now, a month before Christmas, she's going to Alaska to marry him. Dalton Gray seems to be everything she wants in a husband -- sensitive, gallant, romantic . . .On the flight to Fairbanks, she has the misfortune to sit beside , who obviously isn't sensitive, gallant, or romantic. However, he's not impressed with her plan t marry Dalton, a man he detests . So Reed takes it upon himself to change her destination -- and her marriage plans.Which is why Jenna ends up at Reid's cabin in tiny Snowbound, Alaska. It's currently a one-woman town (and the other woman's out of town.) That leaves Reid, a bunch of eccentric old men, a few grizzly bears -- and Jenna. Kidnapped! And then there's a blizzard. The two of them alone, stranded in Snowbound . .

My Review: This is another book that took my less than 5 hours to read. I mean come on! It's only 234 pages!! LOL It is a book that had me going "Awww" and "Well, that's just screwed up" and giggling all the way. And , a BIG plus, it's completely "safe". Like you could read this to a 10 year old! I have only read now two books by Debbie but so far I like her better than Nora Roberts. If you want to a snowy, fairy-tale, with lumber-jack men on a rainy day, this is the book for you!

Exert: "Jenna pointed back at the closed curtain.
'My mother went to bed with a total stranger.'
'Pete's a good guy' Reid said.
'He just slept with my mother!'
'I didn't say he was perfect' " - pg. 208

Cover/Title: Cute cover! It kinda makes you think she's lost and kinda let down with her bouquet pointed down, but still love it. And the title? Perfect.

Extras:
Is there really a Snowbound, AL?
!!!!!!Reid!!!!!!! ;)


~ The Clumsy Reader aka Christine

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