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Release: February 17, 2009

Do you ever sit back and think about your life and wonder what it would be like to take on an adventure you’d never thought possible? What about giving up your life when a complete stranger sends you parts to a motorcycle?

Meet Georgia. She’s in her late 30s, works at a chicken factory and sleeps. She doesn’t have a social life other than her dog. But all of this changes the day she received a couple pieces of metal in the mail. They come with labels of what the parts are. Day after day, more parts come. Georgia has no clue who they are from but starts compiling them. She finally gets all the parts along with a manual on how to put the bike together. Not much gets Georgia going, but for some reason she can’t stop thinking about this.

She quits her job, moves in with her Uncle and they put the bike together. Georgia can’t believe the life she is now living. She finally feels free and alive. But what about the person that made it for her? Why did they go through all of this trouble? Once Georgia finally finds out, a flush of bad memories come back along with a man who thinks he could have stopped her from being hurt as a teen.

I got this book from the Kelley and Hall Publishing Company. My mom and her boyfriend ride bikes and I thought it would be a good book for both me and my mom to read and talk about. I definitely think she’ll like it.

This book has two points of view. One from Georgia’s life and one from Frank’s life. At first, I had no idea who this Frank fella was and why he got such a big role in this book. And a forewarning, while Georgia’s part starts out dark, you ain’t seen nothing until you see the darkness of Frank’s life. There were times I wished I could smack him. Although I was confused about Frank’s role at first, it was soon put to ease…. just to spark more confusion. The book hinted on why Georgia was sent the bike, but it didn’t say until the last 100 pages or so. But every time it mentioned it, I had to sit and think if I missed it or it didn’t sink in.

I really like the female empowerment in this story. I like that Georgia took her life by the balls and did something to make herself happy. I believe in controlling your destiny to a certain extent. If all I ever did was work and sleep and had my hands up a chicken’s butt all day, I’d probably be unhappy too.

I can’t wait until my mom read this. And her boyfriend probably will too. Yay for a book club of sorts I give Assembling Georgia 3 bookmarks.

I have learned I either get a handful of books in a week or I get zilch. This week was a good week.

Contest:

I won this book over at Tea Time with Marce. I am sooo excited to read it! It sounds so cute and Marce said it was REALLY funny.

The twelve Greek gods of Olympus are alive and well in the twenty-first century, but they are crammed together in a London town house — and none too happy about it. For Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator), and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic), there’s no way out — until a meek housecleaner, Alice, and her would-be boyfriend, Neil, turn their world upside down.

When what begins as a minor squabble between Aphrodite and Apollo escalates into an epic battle of wills, Alice and Neil must fear not only for their own lives but for the survival of humankind. Nothing less than a true act of heroism is needed — but can these two ordinary people replicate the feats of the mythical heroes and save the world?

Review:

I got the book Assembling Georgia from the Kelley and Hall Companyfor review.

Georgia Dunn, an underachieving Minneapolis chicken factory worker, is jolted out of her rut when engine parts inexplicably begin arriving in her mail. Faced with a flood of packages from an unknown sender with unfathomable motives, she must choose between her safe, tedious existence and a world of immediacy, of vulnerability and wide-open senses. But she learns that the joys and risks are not hers alone when she collides head-on with her past.

 Bought:

Well, it’s only December 6th and I’m already on my 3rd holiday book. I had only bought 5 in the first place, so I decided to go out and get another one, plus I had $5 in Borders Bucks

Snow on the roofs and wreaths on the doors and chains on the tires… isn’t Christmas in New England wonderful? But Charlotte Prescott is too busy taking in super-sexy reporter Sam Landry to notice the nip in the air. Make that the nip in the air alternating with the scorching heat that rises whenever she and Sam are alone together. Charlotte would be happy to forget the supernatural third wheel who seems to be staying for the season in the quaint old house she inherited. It is real. Someone’s slurping down all the good eggnog. And someone is drawing Charlie and Sam together under the mistletoe — not to mention everywhere else. Happy holidays!

As mom and I were Christmas shopping this weekend, I decided I’d go ahead and cash out my gift card I got as a wedding present. A couple of years ago, Michael got me one of the Private books by Kate Brian, but we didn’t realize it was in the middle of the series until I already read it. So today, I decided that would be my next series and splurged. Confessions is the book I have.