Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

I had read about this book on several other blogs and just knew that I had to read it. My sister had already purchased it so I patiently waited my turn to read it and I am hooked. This is a book about a girl that falls in love with a vampire, though this is no ordinary vampire. He and his friends fight the urge to feast on humans and rather they feast on wild animals. There are 4 books in this series and I can not wait until my sister finishes the next one so that I can read it!!!

The Tie That Binds by Kent Haruf

This book was captivating. I could not put it down once I started reading it. It was set in the 1920's-1970's. It started with an 80 year old woman being charged with murder. You did not know who she murdered until the very end of the book because after the first chapter it went back to when she was born and told her life story through the eyes of her neighbor. Her mother died when she was about 13 and she had to take care of her dad and brother. The dad lost his fingers in a farming accident and was just crazy. Her brother was a little on the looney side too. If you like a little mystery in your books, then check this one out. I have liked both books that I have read by this author, but I think this may be the better of the 2.

The Romance Reader's Book Club by Julie Cannon

This was a book that caught my eye when I walked into the library. It was about a teenage girl in the 1970's that fell in love with romance novels. Her grandmother was a very strict Christian so she had to hide the books while she read them. She made a club with her friends and aunt. There was also a drought going on and she convinced herself that it was being caused by her reading the books. The book ends with the Grandma confessing a sin that she herself had committed and then all of a sudden it rains for 4 days and the drought is over. It was a pretty good book until I got to that end part and thought, that is just not right. God does not punish a whole state because of 1 person's unconfessed sin.