Books 28 - 34

28.  "Pretties" by Scott Westerfeld 370 pages

29.  "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult 423 pages

       It was an okay book.  I don't think I would recommend it.  I was surprised by the ending, though.

30.  "Honey, Baby, Sweetheart" by Deb Caletti 308 pages

       I liked this one.  It's not a funny book, but several times I laughed out loud.  Really, the part where they
       are rescuing someone from the nursing home is hilarious.  And it made me cry once, too.  But that's not
       hard to do because I'm a crier. 

31.  "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger 536 pages

       Ungh.  Don't waste your time reading this one.  SO not worth it.

32.  "What We Wish We'd Known When We Were Newlyweds" by John and Kimberly Bytheway  127

       pages

       T and I read this for FHE together over the last few months.  Nothing groundbreaking, but good anyway.

33.  "Specials" by Scott Westerfeld 327 pages

       Overall, the series was just okay.  This book was a pretty crappy ending to the series, but I had to know
       how it ended.  There is one more book set in the same "world" with different characters but I'm not going
       to read it.

34.  "Hester - The Missing Years of the Scarlet Letter" by Paula Reed 306 pages

       I read this book because it was on the New York Times best seller list.  I was not impressed.  At the end
       of "The Scarlet Letter"  Hester Prynne leaves Boston but returns 10 years later.  This book - as implied
       by the title - fills in the ten years.  I felt like this book wasn't true at all to Hester's original character.  The
       language (there's not any swearing - I'm talking about the actual language) is not even close to the time
       period.  The morals are even further off from the time period.  I know that there have been questionable
       morals during all time periods, but this is set during the Puritan / Cromwell era of the mid 1600's and no
       one - NO ONE - acts like a Puritan in the book.  The author has basically taken the world's current
       values and plugged them into this Puritan / Cromwell setting.  It is not in the least realistic.

Anyway, I have checked out some books recommended by my friends, J and H, so hopefully the upcoming books will be more entertaining.