Ferron Reads

"Good Thing You're Not an Octopus"

 by Julie Markes

 

A beginning children's book about a boy that doesn't want to do his daily routine. He doesn't like to get dressed in the morning, but if he was an octopus he would have eight legs to put into pants instead of two. If he was a shark, instead of a boy, he would have to brush 200 teeth.

It's a fun story that just comes down to "it's a good think that you're you!"

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Over the three-day-weekend I read Linda Howard's "Shadow Woman" I enjoyed it and hope that you do also.

Lizzie Henry wakes up on morning and doesn't recognize her face in the mirror. Then she is taken ill with the flu and calls in sick. Her boss says something disturbing to her. When she tries to think about the past she continues to get violently ill. She realizes how routine her life has become and how unadventurous she seems. She always takes the same way home from work, she shops at the same store and she has a rigid routine that she follows, then she begins to change. Lizzie starts to think different thoughts, runs instead of walking around the block, she begins to think that people are watching her, and she drives too fast just because.

Give Linda Howard a spin and see if you like "Shadow Woman".

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"Always Time to Die" by Elizabeth Lowell

The other day looking for something to read, I took a book off of my cart and rediscovered Elizabeth Lowell. I read "Always Time to Die" and then continued with a few more of her books.


Carly May was adopted and doesn't know anything about her biological family, but she is a genealogist and historian . Hired by an aunt of the govenor of New Mexico to write and publish a history of their maternal side of the family, Carla May comes out to Taos. Before she arrives, the govenor's father who was at one time a senator, dies. Everyone assumes it was of natural causes, but we see that he was murdered. As Carly's research progresses she finds out that the Senator has many legitimate and illigitimate children. People don't like her prying in to the family and she is threatened. Dan Duran has returned to Taos after sustaining injuries while tangling with a drug cartel. He tries to protect Carly. By combining DNA with research and detective work, Carly and Dan finally discover the truth.

The Emery County Library System has 27 books by this author, so if you enjoy this book then you have plenty to read while the weather keeps you indoors. Castle Dale and Orangeville Library has her newest book, "Beautiful Sacrifice" .

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Two books that I read this month were The Last Cowgirl by Jana Richman and Split Second by David Baldacci. Neither of these books were new, but both are worth reading.

Jana Richman's brother lives in Ferron and asked me if I had read any of her books. Elmo Library had the The Last Cowgirl, which won the 2009 WILLA Award for Contemporary Fiction and the 2009 Utah Artys Award for Best Fiction, so I decided to give it a read. Her other book is about a woman riding a motorcycle along the Mormon Trail. I think that sounds interesting also.

When Dickie Sinfield was seven years old, her father George moved the family from Salt Lake City to a small country ranch, complete with cows and horses. Her father loved it, her brother thrived there, her mother and sister kept on pretty much the same and Dickie had a hard time.  The story is can a successful  writer from the city ever go back home.

Like some books, it took me a while to get into, but I soon found myself eagerly reading.

Split Second was published in 2003, but this was the first time that I have read it.

 "September 1996. It only took a split second, although to Secret Service agent Sean King it seemed like the longest split second ever."
Three people died that day.  Presidential candidate Clyde Ritter died, his assassin was killed and life as Secret Service agent Sean Ignatius King knew it was over.  Eight years later another presidential candidate was in the news, but this time kidnapped.. His Secret Service agent Michelle Maxwell went looking for questions and answers. Some of the questions brought her to Sean King. Together they try to solve the mystery and discover that yes both incidents were related.







 



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I also had the chance to read J.A. Jance's new book Judgement Call. Finally, another Joanna Brady mystery. It has been a dry spell for me.

When Sheriff Joanna Brady's daughter finds the body of the high school principal out in the deseret and then a picture of that same body gets on Facebook, you know things are going to get interesting at work and at home.

In this book you get a chance to see the Joanna's life as a wife, mother and sheriff. When she tries to find out more information about Principal Debra Highsmith she discovers more about the death of her father.

Make a judgement call and read J.A. Jance's fifteenth book about Joanna Brady.

Ferron Library - New Reads

This month I read Alex Kava's Fireproof : A Maggie O'Dell Novel.  A string of fires takes place in Washington, D.C. and Special Agent Maggie O'Dell  is called in to help solve the case.

Alex Kava always keeps me scarily entertained, but this one spooked me a little. Maggie hasn't thoroughly recovered from her last assignment, but refuses to acknowledge her deficiency.  Jeffery Cole is a reporter and seems to get to the fires before anyone else, even the police. His camerawoman is a single mother and has hitched her wagon to Jeffery's star. Fireproof also includes Maggie O'Dell's half brother, who is a firefighter. Though this book is in a series, you can read it on its own. If you read it alone, chances are that you will go back and read the rest of her books.

Thirteen Envelopes Continues - Ferron Library

Last month I borrowed Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson from the Orangeville Library. This month I purchased the sequel The Last Little Blue Envelope.

In the last book Ginny Blackstone was given thirteen letters from her favorite aunt. She travels to Europe and visits the places in the letters. Before she can finish with the 13th letter, her backpack was stolen with the letters in it.

Now she is contacted by someone that has found her packpack and the adventure continues.