I haven’t made it out to the bookstore yet this week but I’m sure my husband and I will find time over the weekend to go visit one. I’ve got coupons and lots of suggestions on love stories to check out thanks to you guys but in the meantime I have gotten two books this week.
First, I’m super excited about Pretty In Ink by Karen E. Olson. She was kind of enough to send me a copy of her latest Tattoo Shop mystery featuring Brett Kavanaugh, tattoo artist and owner of The Painted Lady, a Vegas tattoo shop.
“If your name is Britney Brassieres, being taken down by a tsunami of champagne might seem only fitting.”
After that opening line I can’t wait to see what Brett gets up to in this installment. By the way isn’t the cover art great? Anyway, I also hope to have a Q&A with Karen so stay tuned for that.
My other book came via BookMooch. Lately I can’t seem to find any books I want to mooch and my wish list just keeps growing. Anyway, I was excited to get a copy of Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan. I had put that book on my wish list quite a while back and I could barely remember anything about the book.
From the synopsis: Highly original and darkly funny, Clare Allan’s debut novel explores the relationship between N., a patient in a mental institution, and Poppy Shakespeare, a new and disturbingly ‘sane’ arrival who finds herself having to feign mental illness in order to be released.
I’d love to start one of these now but I am so behind on my mystery book and I want to finish it in time for book discussion on Tuesday so these will have to wait a bit. How about you, is there a book you can’t wait to start?
Those books sound great, Iliana! Happy reading and hope you have a great weekend ahead! 🙂
I’m in the middle of so many books, I’d just like to finish some of them before I start anything new.
Sounds like you got some good books. I’d be interested to hear what you think about Pretty in Ink. Love tattoo books.
Pretty in Ink does have a great cover. Have you been inspired yet to get a tattoo of your own? Something bookish perhaps? Have a great weekend!
Isn’t it fun to get books you’ve been wanting to read? I’m in the middle of a book right now, but am anxious to start The Lightning Thief which I picked up from the library yesterday. I also have the 6th book from The 39 Clues In To Deep waiting on me too! Enjoy your book store outing!
Well, I guess I have about a hundred books I can’t wait to start. Can this lead to insanity? I’m thinking maybe it might.
I want to give a quick last minute rec for Anthony Capella’s books ‘The Wedding Officer’ and ‘The Food of Love’ as happy love stories. They involve lots of food as well which is a bonus (he’s compared to Joanne Harris and I can kind of see why in terms of story, but the writing’s different). Have fun when you get to the bookstore.
I have Poppy Shakespeare too. It does look good and I hope to read it soon.
I’ve not found much in the way to mooch lately–I need to update my wishlist. I’m between mysteries at the moment and contemplating what to pick up next-at the moment I am deciding between PD James and Dorothy Sayers, but am just not sure. I do already have a crime novel on the go, but it’s not technically a mystery. And I just want to start a new book. You know how that goes…
Enjoy your new books, Iliana! Poppy Shakespeare definitely sounds appealing.
I haven’t had much of a book budget lately and have been rereading several things, but my sweet other half brought me FOUR (4) new mysteries today! I’m so excited. A Walter Moseley, Michael Connelly, and two others I haven’t heard of. I’m more than ready to have some time to read this weekend. Makes it hard to want to leave the house.
wow, they both sounds really good! happy reading 🙂
I just got a copy of ‘Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea’, and am really curious to start that one being that its a humorous memoir.