Prompt day

The prompt in the group I'm in yesterday was "what authors do you like so much that you wouldn't have top read the synopsis of one of their books to pick one up". For me it's a couple authors.

One. Colleen Hoover. I read her new book last month and had absolutely no idea what it was about. I usually don't read synopsis of books, unless I'm at the book store and trying to find a new book to buy, but with hers I know she's going to rip my heart out and I'll cry and love every second of it.  Plus, how gorgeous are these covers?!?!

Another author for me would have to be Jamie Maguire. She hasn't wrote a new book in a year or 2 but there was one series I was hooked on and kept buying the next book without knowing really what it was about.

Lastly I would have to say a new author I'll add to the list is Tarryn Fisher. I recently got hooked on her books, and wish I had jumped on her books sooner. But you read books at certain times in your life and sometimes they aren't what you need to read and don't enjoy them.

Top 5

Last week, one of the prompts in my blog group was 5 books you've bought based on the cover. I thought it would be such an easy pick! I was wrong....there are plenty of books I've read based on the cover, and I have tons of pretty cover books on my shelf, but they were bought b/c they were pretty and for something else, like who wrote the book. So I went through Goodreads and found 5 books I've read based off the cover.

This one was a book club read, and if I ever find this series cheap I will buy it. The covers are absolutely gorgeous and I need them on my shelf!!  

This is a series as well that I plan on owning. I bought the 2nd one in the series, (the are stand alone) and hope to own the other ones one day.

October Wrap-up

October was a fail month for me. I only read 4 books :( I think I  might be hitting my slump b/c I haven't really gotten into anything this month either....funny, last year this time is when I got *out* of my slump! Even with Deweys the 21st, I failed. But here are the 3 books I read in October.

★★★★

This was our book club pick, and my first Stephen King book. Growing up my dad had all of his books on the book shelf and I always wanted to read them, but my dad said they were too scary for me. I listened to this on Scribd and the narrator was amazing! The book was great, not scary, but creepy. For book club we watched the movie, but I slept b/c I had to work that night. The girls who watched it said it sucked and was nothing like the book. I plan on watching it soon.

★★★★★

LOVED this book!!!! It kept popping up on my suggested reads for kindle and I wasn't sure. A friend read it though and told me I  must read it. I was on a WW2 kick for a bit, so I picked it up and absolutely LOVED it!! It  focuses on the war from a European side, and I don't remember learning about that in school, so I'm enjoying reading books about it. This is the 2nd or 3rd book I've read about that. 

★★★★★

 Colleen's new book for the year! And the only book I read for deweys. It took me about half the book to get into, but the second half sucked me in and I loved it.

★★★

This one was okay....took me 2 weeks to finish it. I started it as an audio the last couple days at the job I quit last month, and then we went to disney. My plan was to listen to it in the car and that did not work out. I think I would have enjoyed it more had it not taken me so long to read it. The 2nd one should be out soon, and I do plan on purchasing that.