Always be a first rate version of yourself...: The Highway

What's Going On Here?

There are SO MANY wonderful book review blogs out there and I can't compete with them, that is for sure. So this is not a book review blog. This is just a way for me to organize what I have read so that I can be better at matching the right book to the right person. The blog title comes from the brilliant mind of the most talented woman who ever lived, Ms. Judy Garland. The full quote is, "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." That is what I hope to do here and in ever aspect of my life.

Monday, August 28, 2017

One Too Many?

I couldn't give 5 stars to Paradise Valley, because I think that maybe the series should have stopped at three. I don't know. It just didn't hold my interest like the others. Maybe that is because it was so far removed from Cody Hoyt and I just really seem to like male detectives more than female detectives! Again, my personal opinion, so remember, these aren't "reviews" as much as "how I felt." I am glad I read it though. I found myself caring enough about the characters to want to see it through to the end. And it was a satisfying end, indeed.

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Badlands

This is the third in a series of four from C.J. Box and I read the first two a long, long time ago, but I still remembered them once I got started with Badlands. The last book just came out and I will be buying it and listening to it as soon as I finish One for Sorrow, which I am loving.
I loved this book, I really did. And I need to read more of Box because he is just so good at painting a picture and telling a story. Great stuff.