We spent a fantastic week in St. George, Utah, over Thanksgiving. Our oldest daughter got married, we had pictures taken at Snow Canyon, a celebratory meal at Chef Alfredo's, toured the Hoover Dam, spent a day in Las Vegas, shopped, ran in the Thanksgiving day race "The Gobbler" in St George, celebrated Thanksgiving with way too much food, tried new restaurants, hiked at Zion National Park, and created a lot of memories.
I also read a lot. It was hours of airplane and car time - and I did try to look at the scenery, but I'm pretty good at multitasking.
On the way to Minneapolis I read The Booklover's Library by Madeline Martin. Historical fiction about books is an automatic winner and this is one I could give to almost anyone. Emma is a widow in England, a mother to Olivia, which greatly reduces her options for getting a job. When she persuades the manager of Boots' Booklovers Library to give her a job, Emma's life is forever changed. There isn't any heart racing drama, but this is a solid, enjoyable read.
Next up was Where The Forest Meets the River by Shannon Bowring, the second in the Return to Dalton series. I loved the first book - and I loved this book just as much. I love that the book features various residents of this one small town and shares the different events in their lives - from heartbreak to hope. I feel like this one ended on a little bit more of a cliffhanger and I'm already anxious to read the third book in this series.
The Five Year Lie by Sarina Bowen is a fantastic page turner. I'm not sure where I even heard about this one, but I raced through it. Ariel receives a text message one day from Drew, the love of her life - who she believes died several years ago. Although the text message may be explainable, Ariel is quickly drawn in to trying to find out what happened when Drew disappeared and the answers are sinister - and dangerous. As soon as I finished this one, my mom picked it up herself and she couldn't put it down, either.
I've got more books to share next week, but December is already off to a busy start so I'm so glad that I had time to enjoy so many great books over the past week.
1 comment:
Tina, first of all, what a gorgeous picture of your daughter and new son-in-law! So beautiful! All the books you listed sound good and I think I had the last one on my list already. Glad you guys had a great trip. Memories indeed! Have a good rest of the week!
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