The Marriage Merger #4: Marriage to a Billionaire, Jennifer Probst (Kindle edition from netgalley.com) - Yea, okay, fluff. Nothing but fluff. A trashy romance with tension between our hero and heroine, a mom who arranges for them to marry 'cause after all, Mother knows best! The fun part was it took place in Italy!
The Lean Startup, Eric Ries (Kindle edition) - I'm reading this a chapter at a time. It's a business book, recommended by my new manager, so of course I bought it and am trying to get through it. I see what he wants me to learn from it, but I have to say, it's not the kind of read I prefer.
The Returned, Jason Mott (Kindle edition from either netgalley.com or Harlequin) - This book got a LOT of buzz at BEA this year. When I saw a chance to read this, I jumped at it. The premise was pretty nifty: people who have died, years ago or yesterday, are all coming back at the same age they were when they died, but in countries all over the globe, unaware of what happened, how they got there, how they could get home... I was hooked on page one. And I was disappointed in the quick ending, once I got to it. Not that the ending was bad, per se, but it wrapped up just a little too quickly for my taste.
Thunderhead, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist,
receives a
letter written sixteen years ago, yet mysteriously mailed only recently. In it
her father, long believed dead, hints at the discovery of the lost city of an ancient civilization that suddenly
vanished a thousand years ago. Nora is chose to lead an expedition into Utah's canyons. Nora begins to unravel the greatest riddle of American archeology. but what she
unearths will be the newest of horrors...
Hmm, may have to read Thunderhead myself. The Returned sounds like an interesting concept.
ReplyDeleteAnd as re: your August list: if the mommy porn is all bad derivative crap, why are you reading it?