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.