Goodreads according to me!

I have always loved to read.  English/Language Arts was my favorite subject in school by far.  I would spend countless hours with my nose in The Sweet Valley High/Sweet Valley Twins series or The Babysitter's Club series.  But leave it to school, when they started assigning books to read over the Summer, to ruin my love for reading.  Hello, my summers were for suntanning with un-approved fake bake lotions and getting serious about which boyfriends would be the mostly likely to earn me some major grounding opportunities-not READING pre-assigned books.

After I had a baby I re-found that I L.O.V.E. reading books, not magazines or order catalogs.  When you spend a good majority of your summer time off watching Doc McStuffins or waiting to wipe a dirty bootie you loathe some alone time with a good book. It also has a lot to do with the quality of summer programming! 

Seriously, can we get some good TV shows to watch over the summer please!(I'm not talking about Big Brother, its my saving grace!) 

Bravo, are you kidding me that you will devote most of your daytime programming to Olympic Tennis-KILL ME!

 This summer here are my favorites. 

Yep, Mom PORN!  I am not ashamed to say I loved getting my paws on this series.  When I heard this was contraband type reading, like hide the cover while you read it on your lunch break goodness, I was all in.

I do not believe in buying books, nope no Kindles or Barnes and Noble spending for this girl.  I am a firm go to the library and get a free book kinda girl.  When I realized that all the other mom's on planet Earth also wanted to uncover the Holy Grail and I was something like number 584 in line for this gem, I broke down and bought all 3 on Amazon.  Hey, I could justify my purchase under the heading of I needed some Clarisonic cleanser and  a smidgen of Mom PORN, right!??

I was head over heels for the first 2 books in the series, but by book 3 I was a little beat down.  I mean the girl gets it all!  Gag!

Here's what I hate about all the hoopla surrounding this book.  Comments like this one...

“ The books are not well written, incredibly repetitive, there is little character development, and the sex scenes are, well, vanilla. ”

Come on ladies, no one who has half a brain cell working, picks this book for its stellar literary writing.  She must not have to spend her summers watching countless hours of Cartoon Network or reading H is for Halloween  1, 000 times!

Next up was this fun read!  My two loves are blog stalking and finding out about celebrities personal lives.  This pacified both needs.  Hysterical!  Like I found myself laughing so loud that I would wake up the sleeping bear next to me, who would then ask what I was laughing about, so I would tell him and he would sorta grunt and roll back over into his bear den!

For the next one, I took the recommendation from a school counselor friend.  Wow!  First of all true story and secondly it takes place not too far from where I live.  An amazing story of forgiveness and God's love!  Super quick read and my Dad equally loved it!  Kinda embarrassed that this one is in the same list as Fifty Shades though!

I am currently in the beginning stages of this one, but already hooked!  It effectively allows me to block out Wipeout  and Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 games on the Wii, which seems to be on a continuous loop at our house!

You might ask if I have seen the sun this summer and yes, I have tan lines to prove it, but here's what happens during the Dog Days of Summer in Texas.  Every mother and brother in Texas takes their family to the community pool and somewhere between the organic banana mush and the bag of Cheetos some small tyke has a blow out in the pool.  So we go to Code Brown and no one can re-enter the pool for 24 hours.  Well, then I'm super freaked out that maybe its still a little contaminated so we end up holed up indoors in our 'roos until about 5, when Dad comes home!  Then we quick rush around and clean up breakfast dishes and splash cold water on our faces from such a BUSY day!

Plus, West Nile is NO Joke around here right now!

Happy Summer reading!