Summer Reading

I love to read, but seem to take forever finishing a book unless I am on vacation. I look forward to our trip to Minnesota every year because there is time to read.  Mike and I usually drive up each year.  That is a 20 hour trip.  I cannot spend the entire trip reading, but I do my best.

This trip I have managed to read four books so far!  You see them posted in the blog.  I read The Help first.  Jenni gave me a copy.  Good, fast read.  And I was excited to find out that a movie based on the book is coming out in August.  I cannot imagine that it will be as good as the book, but I hope to see it!  This book is very popular.   In case you are unaware of the plot, The Help is a 2009 novel by American author Kathryn Stockett. It is about African American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s.

Safe Haven I read in the Reader's Digest condensed books.   My family has subscribed to them since I was a little girl.  I cannot imagine not having a subscription.  I developed a love for certain authors because of Reader's Digest Select Editions (as they are called now.)  I actually read my first Nicholas Sparks book in Reader's Digest.  Safe Haven  tells the story of a strong young woman named Katie who appears suddenly in the small town of Southport. She meets, and falls in love with, a shopkeeper named Alex, who is a widower and the father of two young children. She is beginning to enjoy her new life, but then her dark past comes looking for her.  It has romance and mystery all rolled together.  I had a hard time putting it down.

Heaven is for Real I read on my iPad.  Now that is a fun way to read!  Mike has a Kindle, which we both like, but for the trip I brought my iPad.  It provides me with more entertainment than the Kindle.  And I purchased 3G service for the month of July, which meant I could keep up with email and Facebook!  This book is also a fast read.  It has a lot of scripture in it to support what the little boy sees in Heaven.  Enjoy it.

The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted is the last of the four I have read.  I have never been to Provence.  I hope to go next year, though.  I have been to Paris, and I think this is why I was attracted to the book.  And there are small details in the book that describe the area and things that happen there.  It is of course, a romance.  No mystery to it.  Well, I take that back.  A small mystery involving the main character's mother.  Heidi is the main character, along with her son Abbot, and her niece Charlotte.  The family owns a house in the small town of Puyloubier in the south of France.  The house has had a fire in the kitchen, and Heidi is sent to get it in order.  Heidi, by the way, has lost her husband in a tragic accident two years before.  I had a hard time putting this one down, too.  I hope we can visit Puylobier just for the fun of it. 


I have a long trip home back to Texas.  My Bible is also on my iPad, so of course I will be dipping into scripture as well.  I have not decided what other books to read.  Maybe I can find a really long, interesting mystery.  

'Then he took the Book of the Covenant

 and read it aloud to the people. 

Again they all responded, 

“We will do everything the Lord has commanded. We will obey.”'

Exodus 24:6-8