I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was a bit lazy because when it’s this hot in the summer, I don’t feel like I have much energy for being out and about. I was able to finish two books so yay for that!

Oh and I did have a book crisis Friday night when I was sure I had The Lost Boy by Camilla Lackberg on my Kindle but realized I did not. This is the book for my July mystery book group discussion. So I thought I’ll see if the library has it and they did but I couldn’t place a hold for some reason. Luckily I got that to work the next day and now I’m just waiting to be notified of when my book is ready. Hopefully soon!

This weekend was one of smoothies at our household. I love smoothies for dinner and especially in the summer. We tried two new recipes one was a mango and strawberry smoothie. The recipe I linked is somewhat similar and it was yummy. Very sweet. And, today my husband combined two recipes from Raw Energy making a Mexican chocolate smoothie. Delicious!

Last but not least I know a lot of you have recommended A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman and I haven’t read the book yet but we did watch the movie and I loved it. Oh but did it make me cry. I really want to read his other books now.

Anyway, that’s about it here in hot Texas. What’s going on with you? Did you read some new stories and/or watch a good movie this weekend?

Fierce: having or showing a lot of strong emotion: very strong or intense.

Recently Signature newsletter had a good article about Fierce Female protagonists in literature and offered some new books with some leading characters who are powerful and exciting to read about. Of course I added most of the titles to my TBR list.

However, I wanted to make my own leading ladies list so here are some female protagonists that I think well deserve the description of fierce. They may not all be lovable or even likable but they aren’t afraid to make their own way in the world.

Eileen by Ottesa Moshfegh. Eileen is definitely not likable but there is something so captivating by this narrator that you cannot look away.
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier. Two women who share friendship and obsession which will lead them to make some of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century.
Slamerkin by Emma Donoghue. Mary lives by her own set of rules and one of those is never give up your liberty.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Katniss Everdeen is a warrior who fights for her family, friends and love. And, she’s great with a bow and arrow!
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Lisbeth Salander may have been a victim of those who were supposed to protect her but no more.

This is a short list but I’d like to hear what some of your additions would be?