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Books Read:
Gatecrasher
2 in the Hat
Running from the Devil
Infinite Days
Crepe Makers’ Bond
Majix: Notes from a Serious Teen Witch
Love Remains
Diary of a Beverly Hills Matchmaker
Click here to check out the reviews on all of these books

Pages Read:
2280

Bookmarks Given:
1 bookmark: 0
2 bookmarks: 1
3 bookmarks: 1
4 bookmarks: 3
5 bookmarks 3

Favorite Book:
I would have to say this is a tough decision for me – I had a couple of books that I really liked, but I’ll have to give this month’s award to Running from the Devil.  It was a great, great read!

Least Favorite Book:
My least favorite book was Gatecrasher. I really loved the Sophie Kinsella books and think I had too many expectations for this.

Goals for August:
Honestly, I have nothing major in the pipeline for August. I have a few books on NetGalley that I need to get through, a couple that just came out this week. I want to make sure I get on a better schedule with them and get to them before they are released. I also have some books coming to me from the Crazy Book Tours. I have found a lot of new bookish websites lately. A post on this is in the pipeline!

Now, I did put a book in the grave yard this month, which I hate to do. I started Stephen King’s Duma Key. I think I was just intimidated by the length of it. It’s like a million pages long. LOL Not really, but I was also concerned about getting some of my galley’s done in time and just had a lot on my mind. I heard if I keep at it, it will pick up, I just couldn’t get into it.

Oh, I did finish my one challenge I am taking part in this year. The Crepe Makers’ Bond put me at 25 YA Books for the year so far. I was more of Chick Lit girl last year and wanted to branch out. I thought 25 would be tough. I guess I underestimated myself. Not sure if I can double it or not though by the end of the year.

Aside from reading, I kind of had a big month, with personal accomplishments. I started writing in May and actually finished up the first draft of my book in July. I am super excited about it, although I know I still have a lot of work to do on it. I am going to go back through and add quite a bit of scenes and spice it up a little. I am trying not to get TOO excited, because I know how hard it is to get a book published, but I am just happy to say that I sat down, started writing and did it!

What did you guys do this month??

It’s been 14 years since Zarah Mitchell’s heart was broken and in the blink of an eye, the love of her teenage life, Bobby Patterson, is in the same room with her again. Neither ever married, but both have a horribly wrong perspective on what really happened the summer they broke up. Now that they’re living in the same town, attending the same singles group at church, and having both of their grandparents yearning for grandchildren, fate may be working it’s magic. But when Bobby is investigating Zarah and the historic preservation society that she works for, their love will have to wait, again.

I read this book online, from NetGalley.

Where to start? This was absolutely one of my favorite love stories of all time. Both Zarah and Bobby had their hearts broken when they were young, they never healed and now they have a chance to rekindle it. It’s the kind of love story you only read about and see movies about, but Kaye Dacus made it believable for me. I am a romantic, and I’m sappy when it comes to love, but some stories I read are just too out there. This wasn’t one of them.

Dacus did a fabulous job of bringing out what’s important in life including religion, family, friends, love, values, morals. You name, it’s in this book. I cannot wait until more of the “Matchmakers” series comes out. I will definitely keep my eye out for them.

This was a very quick and fun read. It wasn’t necessarily easy. There was religion thrown in, which can be tough if you don’t know a lot about the Bible. There was also some technical stuff about the historical preservation society, that I had never even heard of and sounded like Blah, blah, blah when I read it. But, I read 250+ pages of this book on Sunday and couldn’t put it down!

I give Love Remains 5 bookmarks.

The book’s publish date is 8/01/10 – To order a copy, click here!