Ashe Library Winter Reading Challenge discussion

2013 is the year of the snake. Read a book first published in a year of the snake: 1905*1917*1929*1941*1953*1965*1977*1989*2001*2013
This link can help: popular by year

Foul Play originally published under the name Steffie Hall and later published under Janet Evanovich was originally published in 1989. Foul play is about a woman named Amy who was a television actor for a children's show called LuLu the Clown. Amy is fired when the studio hired a Road Island Read Roster to replace her act. She meets vet named Jacob Elliot who hires her as her secretary. They eventually fall in love. The book is 228 pages long. Foul Play

First Lessons in Beekeeping A very helpful (if occasionally intimidating)introduction to beekeeping, it was first published in 1917.

I read Sam's letters to Jennifer first published in 2001. I found this book to be a slow read and a little depressing. 272 pages

Published Jan 1st, 2013..

An interesting read. Lizette wakes up and doesn't recognize the face in the mirror and is suddenly stricken by headaches and bouts of nausea any time she tries to access her past further back then three years. Is she paranoid and losing it or are THEY really watching...

They are really listening if not watching. And while you watch Lizette scramble around as her old life reemerges you do wonder what part she played in the teaser prologue at the beginning of the book...

I'd like to say it was a surprising book but A. it's a romantic suspense novel and B. it takes a lot to surprise me...a fun read particularly for any fan of Linda Howard.

336 pages

Published in 2001
I read This Heart of Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. I have read some of Phillips' other books in her Chicago Stars series and have enjoyed them all. What always stands out for me is the humor in her books. Any book that makes me smile as often as I did with this book makes it a worthwhile read for me. 384 pgs