Happy Mother’s Day! We celebrated Mother’s Day early and headed down to the Jersey Shore yesterday to relax on the beach. It was almost 80 degrees outside and even though the Atlantic was cold, the girls still got pretty wet. It was a lovely day just to be out of doors and enjoying the sunshine with my husband and kids. After the girls went on some rides on the boardwalk and played on the beach, we headed back up north and ate a great meal at a local restaurant. Today, we plan on just sitting on the back deck and enjoying another pleasant day.
Jersey Shore Spring 2012
I spent some of my beach time yesterday reading Alma Katsu’s The Taker. I’m just shy of a hundred pages in but so far I am enjoying the book. I know that book two in the planned Taker trilogy(titled The Reckoning) is coming out next month and if this book keeps my interest I’ll probably jump right into the second one.
I also recently finished Katherine Howe’s The House of Velvet and Glass, which was part historical fiction (with chapters flip flopping from the deck of the Titanic to opium dens in late 1800’s Shangai to high Boston society in 1915) part romance with a little bit of magic mixed in. It was a good read and I plan on posting my review sometime this week.
In between those two books mentioned above, I read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, which I received from TLC Book Tours. It was the first book I’ve ever read by the author, but it most certainly will not be my last. Gone Girl was an excellent mystery with twists and turns that truly had me guessing until the end. Flynn’s writing is reminicint of one of my other favorite mystery novelists, Tana French, who by the way will be coming out with a new book called Broken Harbor in July! Since I’m on the Gone Girl book tour my review won’t be published until mid-June, but in the meantime you could always read Carabosse’s Library review, as she pretty much sums up my feelings of the book!
I could really use a beach day…heals the soul I think. The Taker is insane in the best way. I had nightmares about it a month after the fact, which is saying a lot. It got into my brain and stayed there. I cannot wait for The Reckoning!!! I am also on the tour for Gone Girl. I will be reading it next.
Melissa – Same in the North East (or are you in the same area as I am?) – yucky week but gorgeous weekend! Maybe you could head to the beach this coming weekend?
Thank you for the mother’s day wishes and happy mother’s day to you too! Looks like you had a great day. Those books sound so good! I might have to check them out.
Oh, that water looks so inviting! I miss the beach!
I went ahead and posted my review for Gone Girl. I’m not on the tour and got my book at work. I probably should’ve checked with the publisher to see if an early posting was ok. Oh, well. Maybe I’m helping to stimulate pre-orders. And, I agree. Her writing reminds me a bit of Tana French.
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Happy Mother’s Day, Stephanie! I hope we get the chance to have our annual hot dog lunch at BEA this year!
I don’t think I’ll be heading into BEA this year, but if I decide to come I’ll call you Kathy!
I could really use a beach day…heals the soul I think. The Taker is insane in the best way. I had nightmares about it a month after the fact, which is saying a lot. It got into my brain and stayed there. I cannot wait for The Reckoning!!! I am also on the tour for Gone Girl. I will be reading it next.
Oh Sandy, I hope you like Gone Girl as much as I did! I’m a third of the way through The Taker and so far am really intrigued by the story.
I should have gone to the beach today as well and am now regretting it; its been cloudy and rainy all winter and this past weekend was very nice…
Melissa – Same in the North East (or are you in the same area as I am?) – yucky week but gorgeous weekend! Maybe you could head to the beach this coming weekend?
I might be able to, but I am not planning on it. I live about 3 hours north of Seattle.
Happy Mother’s Day! It sounds like you had a wonderful time.
Looks like you had a wonderful day! It rained all weekend, here, so we went out to eat and to a movie. Back to sunshine, today!
Happy Mother’s Day! What a great day you had! I hope we get to go to the beach this year, I love it. Glad to see you’re reading such great books!
Thank you for the mother’s day wishes and happy mother’s day to you too! Looks like you had a great day. Those books sound so good! I might have to check them out.
Great photo! Look at that water! Hope you had a wonderful day!
Oh, that water looks so inviting! I miss the beach!
I went ahead and posted my review for Gone Girl. I’m not on the tour and got my book at work. I probably should’ve checked with the publisher to see if an early posting was ok. Oh, well. Maybe I’m helping to stimulate pre-orders.
And, I agree. Her writing reminds me a bit of Tana French.
Happy Belated Mother’s Day!