To Be Read Pile:
Updated: October 23, 2009
Currently Reading:
Hanging by a Thread by Karen Templeton
On Kindle: Dancing in the Moonlight by RaeAnne Thayne
| Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz |
| Dress Rehearsal by Jennifer O’Connell |
| The Pact by Jodi Picoult |
| The Second Assistant by Clare Naylor and Mimi Hare |
| Manhunt by Janet Evanovich |
| Final Appeal by Lisa Scottoline |
| Morning Comes Softly by Debbie Macomber |
| “F” is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton |
| The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen |
| A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks |
| *Like Mother, Like Daughter by Jane Sigaloff |
| New Moon by Stephenie Meyer |
| The Scent of Scandal by Carole Matthews |
| Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin |
| Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes |
| Swapping Lives by Jane Green |
| The Second Assistant by Clare Naylor and Mimi Hare |
| Dress Rehearsal by Jennifer O’Connell |
| A Hopeless Romantic by Evans |
| Hanging on by a Thread by Karen Templeton |
| *Property Of by Alice Hoffman |
| *Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot |
| Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg |
| *311 Pelican Court by Debbie Macomber |
| *Maybe Baby by Lani Diane Rich |
* = need to buy
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If you would like to join Bookmooch (or if you’re already a member, look me up!) and mooch books off of me, you can find my inventory and my account information here. My Bookmooch ID is: take2max – in case the link doesn’t work and you want to find me. 
Sorry, I’m only shipping to the U.S at this time. International shipping just isn’t in the budget right now. 
Book Rating Key:
****** Outstanding, blew me away, I want to write like this person!
***** Couldn’t stop reading/listening!
**** Pretty Good
*** Wouldn’t read it again – but ok
** Only held half of my attention
* I wasted my time
List of Books Read
October 23, 2009
Hanging by a Thread by Karen Templeton
October 15, 2009
See Jane Date by Melissa Senate
Rating: ***
August 8, 2009
Nice Girls Finish First by Alesia Holliday
Rating: **
July 30, 2009
Ex and the Single Girl by Lani Diane Rich
Rating: ****
July 23, 2009
Slightly Married by Wendy Markham
Rating: ***
June 1, 2009
Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Rating: *****
May 17, 2009
The Bride’s Baby by Liz Fielding
Rating: ****
May 16, 2009
Do They Wear High Heels in Heaven? by Erica Orloff
Rating: ****
April 29, 2009
204 Rosewood Lane by Debbie Macomber
Rating: ***
March 16, 2009
I Don’t Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
Rating: *
February 21, 2009
Baby Bonanza by Maureen Child
Rating: ***
February 16, 2009
True to Form by Elizabeth Berg
Rating: ***
February 16, 2009
Speed Dating by Nancy Warren
Rating: ***
January 28, 2009
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Rating: ****
January 16, 2009
Caught Stealing by Charlie Huston
Rating: ***
January 11, 2009
Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
Rating: ****
January 4, 2009 – Kindle
Murder List – Julie Garwood
Rating: ****
2009
December 31, 2008
The Sweetest Taboo by Carole Matthews
Rating: *****
December 29, 2008 – Kindle
The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel by David Liss
Rating: *****
December 28, 2008 – Kindle
Get a Clue by Jill Shalvis
Rating: ***
December 20, 2008
Performance Anxiety by Betsy Burke
Rating: ***
December 7, 2008
The House in Amalfi by Elizabeth Adler
Rating: ****
December 1, 2008
Late Night Talking by Leslie Schnur
Rating: ****
Started slow but picked up.
October 24, 2008
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Rating: *****
October 19, 2008
Pretty Woman by Fern Michaels
Raing: ***
October 2, 2008
The Last Year of Being Married by Sarah Tucker
Rating: *
September 29, 2008
The Loves of a D-Girl by Chris Dyer
Rating: **
September 15, 2008
Riptide by Catherine Coulter
Rating: **
September 7, 2008
Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks
Rating: ***
August 16, 2008
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
Rating: *****
August 7, 2008
Cold Fire by Dean Koontz
Rating: ***
July 23, 2008
Everything She Thought She Wanted by Elizabeth Buchan
Rating: ****
July 5, 2008
Devil’s Own by Sandra Brown
Rating: ***
June 29, 2008
Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
Rating: ****
June 13, 2008
Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell
Rating: ***
June 6, 2008
7 Days and 7 Nights by Wendy Wax
Rating: *****
May 19, 2008
I Am No One You Know by Joyce Carol Oates
Rating: I actually can’t rate this book because I didn’t finish it. And I didn’t finish it because I get impatient with short stories. But the few I did read were very good.
May 5, 2008
Breaking All the Rules by Sue Civil-Brown
Rating: *
May 4, 2008
Captive of My Desires by Johanna Lindsey
Rating: *****
April 28, 2008
Off Limits by Michele Albert
Rating: ****
April 23, 2008
Ransom by Julie Garwood
Rating: *****
April 13, 2008
Priceless by Marne Davis Kellogg
Rating: ****
April 4, 2008
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
Rating: *** (Side note: This book was off-the-charts weird).
March 30, 2008
The Queen of the Big Time by Adriana Trigiani
Rating: ****
March 18, 2008
Hey, Good Looking by Fern Michaels
Rating: **
March 16, 2008
Pink Jinx by Sandra Hill
Rating: ***
February 22, 2008
The Face of Fear by Dean Koontz
Rating: ****
February 17, 2008
Vanish by Tess Gerritsen
Rating: *****
February 9, 2008 – Reading
Lisa Maria’s Guide for the Perplexed by Susan Hubbard
Rating: ***
February 1, 2008 – Reading
Killer Summer by Lynda Curnyn
Rating: ****
January 28, 2008 – Reading
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling
Rating: ****
January 17, 2008 – Reading
Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult
Rating: *****
January 12, 2008 – Reading
No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark
Rating: ****
January 2, 2008 – Reading
The Mommy Fund by Madeleine Jacob
Rating: ****
2008
December 28 ,2007 – Reading
16 Lighthouse Road by Debbie Macomber
Rating: ***
December 11 ,2007 – Reading
The Last Time I Saw Paris by Elizabeth Adler
Rating: ***
October 24, 2007 – Reading
“Remember When” by Judith McNaught
Rating: ****
September 28, 2007 – Reading
“Straight into Darkness” by Faye Kellerman
Rating: *
*SIGH* I have not been picking very good ones lately. I didn’t finish this one because I had just read Night, so any reference to Hitler and that whole time period instantly turns me off. I gave it a chance, but I simply couldn’t get past my dislike for the time period.
September 10, 2007 – Reading
“The Last Town on Earth” by Thomas Mullen
Rating: ****
August 24, 2007 – Reading
“Match Game” by Beverly Brandt
Rating: **
August 14, 2007 – Reading
“Seasons of Her Life” by Fern Michaels
Rating: I gave this book a chance. It failed. I usually love Michaels, but this time, not so much. I stopped reading because it bored me.
August 8, 2007 – Reading
“Night” by Elie Wiesel
Rating: How do you rate something so horrific and true? I neither liked it, nor disliked it, but it will be something that will stay with me for the rest of my life.
July 16, 2007 – Reading
“Deception on His Mind” by Elizabeth George
Rating: Didn’t finish it. The writing style was too condensed for my taste.
June 26, 2007 – Reading
“Bare Necessity” by Carole Matthews
Rating: **
June 21, 2007 – Reading
“Twins” by Katherine Stone
Rating: **
June 13, 2007 – Reading
“Nineteen Minutes” by Jodi Picoult
Rating: *****
June 8, 2007 – Reading
Singled Out by Trisha Ashley
Rating: I didn’t finish it – it just bored me to tears.
May 30, 2007 – Reading
“Angels” by Marian Keyes
Rating: ****
May 25, 2007 – Reading
“The Husband” by Dean Koontz
Rating: ****
May 17, 2007 – Reading
“The Nanny Diaries” by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
Rating: ****
May 7, 2007 – Reading
“Tangled Up in Daydreams” by Rebecca Bloom
Rating: **
April 27, 2007 – Reading
“4 Blondes” by Candace Bushnell
Rating: *
April 23, 2007 – Reading
“Gucci Gucci Coo” by Sue Margolis
Rating: ***
April 7, 2007 – Reading
Privileged Information by Stephen White
Rating: ***
April 3, 2007 – Reading
“Lord of Raven’s Peak” by Catherine Coulter
Rating: *****
March 28, 2007 – Reading
“Reflection” by Mary Sheldon
Rating: ****
March 20, 2007 – Reading
“Rise and Shine” by Anne Quindlen
Rating: **
March 8, 2007 – Reading
“The Man of My Dreams” by Curtis Sittenfeld
Rating: ***
March 2, 2007 – Reading
“The Notebook” by Nicholas Spark
Rating: ***
February 27, 2007 – Reading
“Desire” by Amanda Quick
Rating: ****
February 8, 2007 – Playing on my iPod
“The Color of Death” by Elizabeth Lowell
February 5, 2007 – Reading
“Anybody Out There?” by Marian Keyes
Rating: ***
January 29, 2007 – Playing on my iPod
“A Love of My Own” by E. Lynn Harris
Rating: ***
January 28, 2007 – Reading
“I’ve Got You Babe” by Karen Kendall
Rating: **
January 18, 2007 – Reading
“Oh My Stars” by Lorna Landvik
Rating: ****
January 8, 2007 – Reading
“The Dogs of Babel” by Carolyn Parkhurst
Rating: ***
January 1, 2007 – Playing on my iPod
“Good in Bed” by Jennifer Weiner
Rating: ***
2007
December 31, 2006 – Reading
“Send No Flowers” by Sandra Brown
Rating: **
December 18, 2006 – Reading
“Santa Baby” by Jennifer Crusie, Lori Foster, and Carly Phillips
Rating: ***
December 9, 2006 – Reading
“The Pajama Game” by Eugenie Seifer Olson
Rating: **
November 30, 2006 – Reading
“Just a Hint – Clint” by Lori Foster
Rating: ***
November 25, 2006 – Reading
“True Witness” by Jo Bannister
Rating **
November 16, 2006 – Reading
“Undone” by Virginia Henley
Rating: ***
October 18, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“Lost and Found” by Jayne Ann Krentz
Rating: ***
October 17, 2006 – Reading
“Clay” by Jennifer Blake
Rating: ****
October 13, 2006 – Reading
“Once Upon a Day” by Lisa Tucker
Rating: ******
October 10, 2006 – Reading
“The Devil Wears Prada” by Lauren Weisberger
Rating: *****
October 6, 2006 – Reading
“Wives Behaving Badly” by Elizabeth Buchan
Rating: **
September 27, 2006 – Reading
“Between, Georgia” by Joshilyn Jackson
Rating: ****
September 24, 2006 – Reading
“What Men Want” by Deborah Blumenthal
Rating: ***
September 17, 2006 – Reading
“What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]” by Zoe Heller
Rating: **
September 12, 2006 – Reading
“Undomestic Goddess” by Sophie Kinsella
Rating: ****
September 1, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“Hemlock Bay” by Catherine Coulter
Rating: ***
August 29, 2006 – Reading
“Susannah’s Garden” by Debbie Macomber
Rating: ***
August 27, 2006 – Reading
“Shopaholic and Sister” by Sophie Kinsella
Rating: ***
August 19, 2006 – Reading
“The Naked Truth” by Donna Kauffman, Beverly Brandt, Alesia Holliday, Erin McCarthy
Rating: **
August 7, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“Flirting with Pete” by Barbara Delinsky
Rating: ******
August 3, 2006 – Reading
“Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman” by Elizabeth Buchan
Rating: ***
July 20, 2006 – Reading
“Shopaholic Ties the Knot” by Sophie Kinsella
Rating: ****
July 18, 2006 – Reading
“Shopaholic Takes Manhattan” by Sophie Kinsella
Rating: ****
July 14, 2006 – Reading
“Confessions of a Shopaholic” by Sophie Kinsella
Rating: *****
July 14, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“In Her Shoes” by Jennifer Weiner
Rating: **** (the book was better, of course)
July 11, 2006 – Reading
“Blue Flame” by Jill Shalvis
Rating: ****
July 6, 2006 – Reading
“Couch World” by Cathy Yardley
Rating: ****
June 30, 2006 – Reading
“We Are All Welcome Here” by Elizabeth Berg
Rating: ******
June 29, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“Dance with Me” by Luanne Rice
Rating: ***
June 26, 2006 – Reading
“The Pact” by Jennifer Sturman
Rating: ***
June 24, 2006 – Reading
“Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?” by Melissa Senate
Rating: ****
June 24, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“E is for Evidence” by Sue Grafton
Rating: **** (I’m really enjoying Grafton’s alphabet mysteries and Judy Kaye’s animated voice absolutely MAKES these audio books, IMO).
June 20, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“Courting Trouble” by Lisa Scottoline
Rating: ***
June 20,2006 – Reading
“The Bronte Project” by Jennifer Vandever
Rating: **
June 14, 2006 – Reading
“Buring the Map” by Laura Caldwell
Rating: ****
June 7, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“Blue Dahlia” by Nora Roberts
Rating: ****
June 7 – Reading
“Mike, Mike & Me” by Wendy Markham
Rating: *****
June 3, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“Temptation” by Jude Deveraux
Rating: ***** (then again, I’m nuts for Deveraux)
June 1, 2006 – Reading
“Rococo” by Adriana Trigiani
Rating: ***
May 30, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“D is for Deadbeat” by Sue Grafton
Rating: ***
May 29, 2006 – Reading
“Any Bitter Thing” by Monica Wood
Rating: **** Story was a bit drawn out, but beautiful prose.
May 22, 2006 – Reading
“My Latest Grievance” by Elinor Lipman
Rating: ***
May 17, 2006 – Reading
“Dirty Blonde” by Lisa Scottoline
Rating: ****
May 1, 2006 – Reading
“Slightly Engaged” by Wendy Markham
Rating: **
April 24, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
Birthright by Nora Roberts
Rating: ****
April 24, 2006 – Reading
The Thin Pink Line by Lauren Baratz-logsted
Rating: Didn’t finish – the character was way too self-centered
April 13, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“Lie by Moonlight” by Amanda Quick
Rating: ****
April 13, 2006 – Reading
“Dating is Murder” by Harley Jane Kozak
Rating: — Didn’t finish it – too boring
April 10, 2006 – Reading
“Dead for the Winter” by Betsy Thornton
Rating: **
April 5, 2006 – Reading
“Desert Wives” by Betty Webb
Rating: ** – though the part that did have my attention was disturbing
April 3, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“Seduction by Design” by Sandra Brown
Rating: **
March 27, 2006 – Reading
“Kill Me” by Stephen White
Rating: *****
March 22, 2006 – Reading
“Confessions of an Ex-Girlfriend” by Lynda Curnyn
Rating: **
March 22, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“Springwater Wedding” by Linda Lael Miller
Rating: ***
March 16, 2006 – Reading
“Tales of a Drama Queen” by Lee Nichols
Rating: ***
March 11, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“Long Time No See” by Susan Isaacs
Rating: ****
March 9, 2006 – Reading
“Spitting Feathers” by Kelly Harte
Rating: ****
March 7, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“C is for Corpse” by Sue Grafton
Rating: *****
March 2, 2006 – Reading
“With or Without You” by Carole Matthews
Rating: ***
February 23, 2006 – Reading
“The Solomon Sisters Wise Up” by Melissa Senate
Rating: *****
February 18, 2006 – Reading
“Bombshell” by Lynda Curnyn
Rating: *****
February 10, 2006 – Reading
“The Jinx” by Jennifer Sturman
Rating: ****
February 6, 2006 – Reading
“The Breakup Club” by Melissa Senate
Rating: *****
February 7, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“Not Even for Love” by Sandra Brown
Rating: **
January 26, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“Disobedience” by Jane Hamilton
Rating: Didn’t finish it. *yawn*
January 23, 2006 – Reading
“Speechless” by Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout
Rating: ****
January 23, 2006 – Playing on my iPod
“A Kiss Remembered” by Sandra Brown
Rating: **
January 17, 2006 – Reading
“Rescuing Rose” by Isabel Wolff
Rating: *****
January 10, 2006 – Reading
“The Matzo Ball Heiress” by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Rating: **
January 8, 2006 – Reading
“Inappropriate Men” by Stacey Ballis
Rating: *
January 7, 2006 – Playing on iPod
“Heaven and Earth” by Nora Roberts
Rating: **
January 4, 2006 – Reading
“Starting from Square Two” by Caren Lissner
Rating: **
January 2, 2006 – Reading
“Blue Blood” by Susan McBride
Rating: ****
2006
December 28, 2005 – Reading
“Bed of Roses” by Katherine Stone
December 20, 2005 – Reading
“Mr. Perfect” by Linda Howard
Rating: ****
December 2, 2005 – Playing on my iPod
“Deadly Embrace” – by Jackie Collins
Rating: ***
October 31, 2005 – Playing on my iPod
“Full Tilt” by Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes
October 26, 2005 – Playing on my iPod
“B is for Burglar” by Sue Grafton
Rating: ****
(Judy Kaye is the reader on this book and she was FANTASTIC!! She MADE this story IMO).
October 19, 2005 – Reading
“Angel Falls” by Kristin Hannah
Rating: *****
October 14, 2005 – Reading
“American Idle” by Aleisa Holliday
Rating: ****
October 12, 2005 – Playing on my iPod
“An Accidental Woman” by Barbara Delinsky
Rating: ***
October 3, 2005 – Reading
“Sex, Murder and a Double Latte” by Kyra Davis
Rating – ****
September 28, 2005 – Reading
“How to Be Lost” by Amanda Eyre Ward
Rating: *****
September 19, 2005 – Reading
“Time Off for Good Behavior” by Lani Diane Rich
Rating: *****
September 15, 2005 – Reading
“Babyface” by Fiona Gibson
Rating: ***
September 15, 2005 – Playing on my iPod
“Eloquent Silence” by Sandra Brown
Rating: **
September 12, 2005 – Reading
“Lucy’s Launderette” by Betsy Burke
Rating: ***
September 10, 2005 – Reading
“Milkrun” by Sarah Mlynowski
Rating: ****
September 5, 2005 – Playing on my iPod
“From Potter’s Field” by Patricia Cornwell
Rating: ****
September 3, 2005 – Reading
“My Only Story” by Monica Wood
Rating: ***
August 21, 2005 – Reading
“On the Verge” by Ariella Papa
Rating: ***
August 16, 2005 – Playing on my iPod
“Eleventh Hour” by Catherine Coulter
Rating: Bored me – didn’t finish it
August 12, 2005 – Reading
“Multiple Choice” by Claire Cook
Rating: *
August 9, 2005 – Playing on my iPod
“Crazy For You” by Jennifer Crusie
Rating: *****
August 8, 2005 – Reading
“Little Earthquakes” by Jennifer Weiner
Rating: *****
August 5, 2005 – Reading
“The Saints and Sinners of Okay County” by Dayna Dunbar
Rating: *****
August 4, 2005 – Reading
“Fashionistas” by Lynn Messina
Rating: *****
August 3, 2005 – Reading
“The Last Year of Being Single” by Sarah Tucker
Rating: ****
July 27, 2005 – Reading
“You Have to Kiss a lot of Frogs” by Laurie Graff
Rating: ***
July 24, 2005 – Reading
“A Clean State” by Laura Caldwell
Rating: ******
July 21, 2005 – Reading
“Losing It” by Lindsay Faith Rech
Rating: *****
July 20, 2005 – Playing on my iPod
“Above and Beyond” by Sandra Brown
Rating: *****
July 19, 2005 – Reading
“Slightly Settled” by Wendy Markham
Rating: ****
July 15, 2005 – Reading
“My Life Uncovered” by Lynn Isenberg
Rating: **
July 13, 2005 – Reading
“Up and Out” by Ariella Papa
Rating: ****
July 12, 2005 – Playing on my iPod
“Come the Spring” by Julie Garwood
Rating: ***
July 12, 2005 – Reading
“Having it and eating it” by Sabine Durrant
Rating: *****
July 10, 2005 – Reading
“A Little Change of Face” by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Rating: ***
July 5, 2005 – Playing on my iPod
“Tell Me Lies” by Jennifer Crusie
Rating: *****
June 28, 2005 – Playing on my iPod
“Dying to Please” – by Linda Howard
Rating: *****
June 17, 2005 – Playing on my iPod
“A is for Alibi” by Sue Grafton
Rating: ****
June 13, 2005 – Reading
“Ladder of Years” by Anne Tyler
Rating: ****
June 10, 2005 – Playing on my iPod
“A Body to Die For” by Kate White
Rating: ****
June 8, 2005 – Reading
“Until You” by Judith McNaught
Rating: *****
June 4, 2005 – Reading
“Forever and Always” by Jude Deveraux
Rating: *
June 1, 2005 – Reading
“Joining” by Johanna Lindsey
Rating: *****
May 31, 2005 – Reading
“Princess Annie” by Linda Lael Miller
Raing: *****
May 30, 2005 – Playing on iPod
“Falling Awake” by Jayne Ann Krentz
Rating: ***
May 27, 2005 – Reading
“The Hotel Riviera” by Elizabeth Adler
Rating: ****
May 25, 2005 – Reading
“Blind Side” by Catherine Coulter
Rating: **
May 24, 2005 – Reading
“Why She Went Home” by Lucinda Rosenfeld
Rating: ***
2005
