Book 271 Nothing's Sacred by Lewis Black

Nothing's Sacred

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This is Lewis Black's first book. It's a comic auto biography of his life from birth to becoming a stand up comedian. He writes about his family and their influence on his life decisions, plus the good and bad times in his life.

Book 270 Bernini's Beloved by Sarah McPhee

Bernini's Beloved: A Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini

The sculptor Bernini had an affair with Constanza Piccolomini. When she slept with his brother and betrayed him he had her face slashed. This book details the bust sculpture of Constanza along with biographical information about Constanza and Bernini, plus those near and dear to the pair.

Book 269 I'm dreaming of a Black Christmas by Lewis Black

I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas

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If you are looking for a cheerful Christmas read this is definitely not the book you, but it is pretty damn amusing. Comedian Lewis Black details Christmas Day for a Jew. It's cynical, somewhat angry, and life pondering. I'm a fan of Lewis Black and found this to be a funny read before Christmas.

Book 268 Merry Christmas Alex Cross by James Patterson

Merry Christmas, Alex Cross

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Alex Cross finds himself talking down a down and out man who's taken his ex wife and family hostage on Christmas Eve, the terror and interruption to his holiday doesn't end there on Christmas Day he ends up chasing a terrorist through Union Station.

Book 267 Holiday Buzz by Cleo Coyle

Holiday Buzz (A Coffeehouse Mystery)

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This is the second holiday coffee house mystery written by Cleo Coyle. Luckily I got it from work just in time to read right before Christmas. Clare becomes hot on the trail of solving the murders of women found bludgeoned to death after holiday cookie swaps. Here long distance relationship continues with Mike Quinn, I'm hoping he'll come back when his year is up and him and Clare will get married but I don't know if that's what the author has in store for these two.

Book 266 - A Christmas Odyssey by Anne Perry

A Christmas Odyssey (Basic)

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This was an easy Christmas read. Set in Victorian England right before Christmas, James Wentworth desperately wants to find his son who's gone astray to live in the underground.  Mr. Wentworth turns to Henry Rathborne for help, Henry enlists the help of his friend Squeaky, a lady of the night named Bessie and his Dr. friend Crow. The four of them search the underground to find Lucien Wentworth.

Book 265 The Christmas Wedding by James Patterson

The Christmas Wedding

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This book was just awful, a terrible way to start my Christmas reading. Gaby Summerhill invites her family back to the family farm for Christmas, she's throwing a Surprise wedding. Three guys have asked to marry her and Gaby will choose and marry one of these men on Christmas day, she won't tell anyone who she's marrying until the wedding ceremony. The three men interested in Gaby are Tom (an ex-hockey player), Jacob (a rabbi at a temple) and Marty (her brother in law). Of course predictably her whole family comes home for Christmas for the wedding celebration. Ultimately the gross factor goes up big time when Gaby chooses to marry her brother in law. I'm sorry I was deeply disturbed by this, who the hell marries their brother in law? It's a step away from blood related incest. This book was cheesy, unbelievable, dumb and gross, don't waste the read.

Book 264 The bone collector by Jeffrey Deaver

The Bone Collector (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel)

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Lincoln Rhyme is a quadrapeligic and former criminialist. He gets back to work teaming up with patrol officer Amelia Sachs to find a serial killer taking victims to match up with old New York crime scenes. Sachs is reluctant to start up crime scene work and Rhyme is reluctant to live life as a quad much longer. 

Book 263 Blood Lite II edited by Kevin J. Anderson

Blood Lite II: Overbite

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Yet another successful compilation of humorous horror stories. Looking forward to the third one and to any more that could possibly be released.

Book 262 The Sartorialist by Scott Schuman

The Sartorialist

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Scott Schuman is a street fashion photographer. This book is based off his blog the sartorialist. I didn't really understand half of what you call fashion featured in these photographs, but Mr. Schuman was trying to emphasize a person's style over what's trendy or fashionable anyway. It was an easy read, many photos, not much text, a couple of interesting photo stories. What irked me is the women who wore sandals and stockings, I hate the sandals or open toed shoes and stockings combination, I will never understand it and I will always personally think it's hideous.

Book 261 Seven Up by Janet Evanovich

Seven Up (Stephanie Plum, No. 7) (Stephanie Plum Novels)

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Stephanie is trying to bring in cigarette smuggler Eddie DeChooch. Meanwhile DeChooch is looking for something that he left with Mooner and Doug. Doug goes missing and later on Mooner is also missing and Stephanie has to find them.

Book 260 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl: A Novel

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Amy Dunne goes missing on the day of her fifth anniversary. All evidence points to the possibility of her being murdered by her husband Nick. The book takes a most surprising twist halfway through the novel, it's not your classic husband goes berserk and murders wife story, not at all. It was a great read until the very end, the ending pissed me off.

Book 259 Bad Kitty Christmas by Nick Bruel

A Bad Kitty Christmas

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Once in awhile I enjoy an awesome children's book. Children's books are pretty amazing, when Shawn and I eventually have a child a favorite part of motherhood to me will be reading them books. This book by author Nick Bruel is a part of the bad kitty series. The book features a nice story and repetition of the alphabet by using various words from A to Z three times in the book. I picked it up as part of some books I checked out of work for Christmas reading. If you're an adult this is an awesome quick enjoyable read, if you have kids they should definitely love this book and learn with it.

Book 258 The Walking Dead 16 by Robert Kirkman

The Walking Dead, Vol. 16

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Rick's group is approached by a new group of people claiming to have a community. Rick investigates this community with a few members of his group and debates about taking a chance to help out this community and see if there's more outside in the world besides the walking dead.

Book 257 Blood Lite edited by Kevin J. Anderson

Blood Lite: An Anthology of Humorous Horror Stories Presented by the Horror Writers Association

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This work is a compilation of horror stories with a bit of humor. I've been into short stories lately and this was definitely a great read, the horror/humor combination was well put together along with some great writing by each author.

Book 256 The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

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Detective Harry Bosch appears in this debut series novel. Bosch is sent to investigate a dead body in the pipe, he soon suspects that the body found in the pipe isn't the standard OD case it seems to be. Now he's on a mission to find out what really happened to the man found dead in the pipe. 

Book 255 Hot Six by Janet Evanovich

Hot Six (Stephanie Plum, No. 6) (Stephanie Plum Novels)

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Stephanie is on the hunt for master bounty hunter Ranger. Ranger is seen on a surveillance tape moments before a member of an Italian mob family is found murdered. In between this action Grandma Mazur moves in with Stephanie and Stephanie also inherits a dog named Bob.

Book 254 Bitten by Kelly Armstrong

Bitten: A Novel (Women of the Otherworld)

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A first book in the woman of the otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong. Elena is the first and only surviving female werewolf. She's broken away from her pack determined to live a normal life but she is called back to the pack when they are faced with an emergency. Will she stay with her pack once she helps them, or will she go back to her nearly normal life? 

 

Book 253 Many Bloody Returns edited by Charlaine Harris

Many Bloody Returns

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Charlaine Harris worked with various authors to create a compilation of short stories about the topic of Vampires celebrating their birthdays. These stories were interesting work, the topic itself is interesting and it was enjoyable to read how clever and creative each author got with this story idea.