Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris

Book 2 of the Sookie Stackhouse series...more vampires! Yes! I am hooked on this series. It's very light, but fun. If you like the HBO series True Blood you should check out these books because the series are based on these books. I am intrigued as to why a woman would get involved with a vampire. It must be the mysteriousness and the sex appeal too. This time Sookie is doing work for Eric the head vampire in Dallas. She gets herself mixed up with some troublemakers and of course has to figure out how to get out of it. Fun and entertaining!

Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall

This was my friend Sara's pick for the June book club book. It comes highly recommended by most in our book club. We all were hooked on this memoir about a special friendship between an upper middle class white Texan and a black homeless man named Denver. They had a very special bond and it opened our eyes to the prejudices most people have of homeless people. You can read more about this book at my book club's blog for more impressions: www.lovestoeatlovestoread.blogspot.com. I recommend this one.

"Always Looking Up" by Michael J. Fox

Loved this book. It was a quick read, but packed with lots of stuff. I will warn you that he goes on about politics for quite awhile, but to me it was fascinating all of the work he's done through his foundation and making people aware of stem cell research. It was interesting reading his thoughts on how he tries to control his PD and what his side affects he has from the medicine. It was inspiring. A perfect memoir to start out the summer with.

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Ok, ok. I have to admit that I'm getting sucked into the recent obsession that American girls are having in vampires. This book is the first of the Sookie Stackhouse series. It takes place in Louisiana where vampires are living among humans surviving on synthetic blood.

Let me warn all you Twilight-addicts--this is much different from Twilight. First of all, this series is geared towards adults (i.e. lots of sex in this book, more than I was anticipating). Second, there's a mystery that is also happening as we get to know Sookie and the characters around her. I must say that I am intrigued by the series and want to know what happens to Sookie and Bill, the vampire. Will their love last? Will people around Sookie continue to die?

This is also the books that the HBO series, True Blood, is based on. Very popular right now, for good reason--they're entertaining!

The Undomestic Goddess by Sophia Kinsella

Total fluff, but I loved it! If you've read SK's books then you know that she has a basic formula too--nice girl gets herself into some kind of pickle, meets a great guy but covers real truth to the guy, pickle explodes, girl loses guy because of pickle exploding, then girl fixes everything and finds her true self in the end and then gets the guy. LOVE IT! :0) It was funny and entertaining as usual. I think I've now read all of the books she's published except for the ones under the other pseudonym.

Eragon by Christopher Paoni

I listened to this book about a boy dragon rider who doesn't know he's a dragon rider until he discovers a dragon egg. It's very sci-fi-ish, but I did enjoy the story and will listen to the next in the series. I do admit that I kind of got bored with the end and thought that maybe Paoni didn't need to put as much detail as he did. I understand why he did that (much in the same way JK Rowling had to create Harry's world through the Sorceror's Stone and Chamber of Secrets), I was distracted there towards the end. Very entertaining and well-written.

Borderline by Nevada Barr

Ok so I really do love the Anna Pigeon series as you might already know by reading this, if you do read this, anyone? anyone? ok sorry. This book took place in Big Bend NP on the Texas/Mexican border. The premise was ok--Anna and Paul go on a raft trip together with some people and then they find a woman that's washed up on the river who is almost dead. Well she dies (sorry to spoil it), but she's pregnant and Anna ends up delivering the baby via c-section with a pocket knife. Yea, I know kinda corny. This one was pretty corny the whole way through and I had figure it out who the bad guy was pretty soon into the book. I have to say it was ok. Not a horrible read, but not one of the greatest.