Library Finds

Oh I'm so excited! I went to my local library today and found out they were having a great sale, a bag of books for $1. I just stocked up on some great books, here's what I got.

The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble
The Vanished Child by Sarah Smith
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
The Painter of Birds by Lidia Jorge
Wet Grave by Barbara Hambly
A Song I Knew by Heart by Bret Lott
Verbena by Nanci Kincaid

7 books all for a dollar, what a great deal. I've started reading the first and can't wait to post my review, its great so far.

Review: Lady Vernon and Her Daughter

I’ve been away from blogging for a long time now and I think its time to restart now. My blog will mainly consist of book reviews with the occasional recipe or any other good find I stumble across that should be shared.

One of the more recent books I’ve read was Lady Vernon and Her Daughter by Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway. This is a novel about Jane Austen’s Lady Susan. So first I have to admit that I’m probably one of the few people left that hasn’t read any Jane Austen novels before. As such, maybe I’m not the best judge of this novel but I just wasn’t really too impressed. Don’t get me wrong the writing is detailed but I just did not like the plot very much. It just seemed to go on for a while about things that didn’t seem to matter all that much. I also couldn’t really relate to the characters or their worries. Overall I’d give the novel 3 out of 5 stars.