#10 Multiple Choice by Claire Cook ***

From Amazon: A midlife back-to-school adventure propels a suburban housewife into an unlikely radio career in Cook's third novel, set on the South Shore of Massachusetts. March Monroe is the spunky protagonist who left college life behind to marry a civil engineer named Jeff and raise a daughter and son while working as an aerobics instructor, party planner and finally a life coach. With Olivia off to college and Jackson not far behind, March finally takes her husband up on his longstanding offer to send her back to school. The degree requires an internship, and when March explores her limited options she finds herself inadvertently working together with Olivia as fellow interns at a local radio station. Exploiting the friction between March and Olivia, handsome programming director David Callahan proposes that the two do a mother-daughter call-in show that quickly takes off and becomes popular.

03/31/06 This turned out to be a lite fun read. However, I did enjoy Must Love Dogs a lot more. However, worth a read in my opinion.

Reading Slump or would it be a Rut???

Life has been so hectic on a personal level I'm finding it terribly hard to focus on my reading. I've actually started three books and had to put them down and move on to something lighter and still just creep those.

Middlesex
The DaVinci Code
The Rock Orchard

All very good but I'm so distracted with life I feel like I have no clue of what I had read once I pick the book back up. I don't recall the story line and or who the characters are. It really gets me down when I feel like I'm not making any progress on the TBR shelf with 100 + books.

So I'm thinking the solution for now is to just not worry about. I'm going to forget about any "obligation" type reading like the author challenge and/or group reads for boards. Just going to read what ever strikes my mood and if it takes me a month to read 200 pages well so be it.

Hopefully, I'll be back on a reading streak before I realize it.

#9 Crimson Joy by Robert B. Parker ***

I've been rather distracted from my reading attempts lately. I'm putting aside The Da Vinci Code and going to read the quick Parker read. Spenser is always good to me. Hope then to pick back up The Da Vinci Code.

From Amazon: A husband murders his wife imitating the "Red Rose Killer," a serial murderer who has been leaving a rose on the corpses of his victims, middle-aged black women. When the spouse admits his guilt, government higher-ups assure feminist and ethnic pressure groups that the elusive maniac has been caught: case closed. But Spenser's friends in homicide, angered by the cover-up, enlist him and Hawk in an unofficial investigation that seems to implicate some of Susan's patients. Resenting the intrusion on her professional territory, Susan nevertheless cooperates. Spenser and Hawk, as guards, are therefore present during the psychologist's session with the dreaded but pitiable killer and the ensuing tense, final scene.

03/09/06
Fun Spenser read, as always.