#17 Dead Ringer

by Lisa Scottoline

This book review was also written months after listening to the book on a long road trip (same as #16).

The book is based around an all female law firm. It is not the first in the series, but it is the first I have read. While I'm sure there are things that carry on from one book to the next, it's not enough to cause a problem in reading them out of order. Bennie Rosato is the main character and owns the law firm; which is currently having major financial problems. Bennie lands a big-bucks class action case that may save her firm. Just when things are looking up, she has her wallet stolen and is arrested for a burglary she didn't commit. She soon figures out that her identical twin (separated at birth) is back in town and out for revenge. Her twin, Alice, despises Bennie for having a better life with Bennie's adopted parents, while Alice had a horrible childhood with their birth mother. It's pretty much non-stop action for Bennie between her huge case, her crazy sister, her client's murder, and a new love interest.

Another fun book by Scottoline. I will definitely read more by her in the future.

#16 Devil's Corner

by Lisa Scottoline

I listened to this book on tape while driving to the city to look for an apartment. Forgive me if this is a small review. I didn't have time to write it until months after listening to this book. I wanted to include it on my list for future reference.


At the beginning of the book, the heroine, Vicki Allegretti, goes with an ATF agent to speak to an informant on the case she is working on. The agent gets killed, and Vicki can't leave the investigation to the ATF; despite many warnings to leave it alone. She meets a woman named Raheema, who's mother was killed in a drug-related murder that Vicki suspects is related. The two women are completely different and make for some humorous reading while they try to work together to solve the case.


I enjoyed this book because of its suspense and humorous aspects. It made a great book to listen to while driving.

#15 The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency

by Alexander McCall Smith

This was an okay book. It's about a woman, Mma Ramotzwe, in Botswana that opens her own detective agency. It is the first in the series, so it tells a little about her life and then tells about a few adventures she has trying to be private detective. Some of the cases were amusing, but I don't think I will read anymore in this series. I listened to this book on CD while driving to Ogden and back. The thing I liked best about the book was listening to the accent of the narrator. It was interesting hearing how she pronounced different words. It was also interesting hearing about things from the point of view of a native of Botswana. I would probably not recommend this book.

#14 The Peacegiver

by James L. Ferrell

I have a post that reviews this book on my other blog. Refer to The Peacegiver on Innuce. I do want to include a few more quotes that I love; this book is absolutely full of them.

"The difficulty of life itself is a blessing! he realized. For it initiates a desire within us to come to the Lord - a yearning we can feel even when we are blinded by sin!"

"You don't discover love by demanding love from others. You discover it by learning to love others yourself. Unless you find a way to love, my love, or anyone else's, won't help you. You discover love by learning to love others. There is no other way."

"At least in one sense, 'righteousness' is simply a humble understanding of how unrighteous one is, coupled with a deep commitment to be better. The truth leaves no room for fellings of superiority. Such feelings are nothing but lying vanities."

I could go on and on, but I'll stop there. My favorite quote is in my other blog, so make sure you go to the link I put above to read it. You should all read this amazing book. It's a quick read, and the only thing really difficult about it (at least for me) was the realization of how many things I was doing wrong because I didn't understand the atonement fully.

Meme

I got this book list from this post on Booklogged's blog. The instructions are this: Look at the list of books below. Highlight in red the ones you’ve read, highlight in green the ones you might read, leave the ones you won’t read in black, italicize the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around the ones you’ve never even heard of.

The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
The Cacther in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audry Niffenegger
(His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1984 by George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaba by J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
(Crytonomicon by Neal Stephenson)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement by Ian McEwan
(The Sadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zago)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Dune by Frank Herbert
The History of Love by Nichole Krauss

There are a few that are slight possibilities to read that I didn't mark in green. With my every growing list of books, I will probably never get around to them, so I didn't make them green.