Mary Kay Andrew: Fixer Upper

I just finished reading Mary Kay Andrews book Fixer Upper. It's brilliant. I'm not great with fancy words, so the best anybody usually gets out of me is "It was funny" or "I enjoyed it" or "It's good, you'd like it". However, I LOVE Mary Kay Andrews as a writer. I wish she had 10 more books I hadn't read yet, except that then I would get absolutely nothing done.
I purchased the book yesterday at lunch at Borders. I cracked it open when I got home from work, then had to stop to cook dinner. I started reading again around 10 and stayed up until 2 reading. Mister had to work overtime this weekend, so he left early this morning and I have done nothing since but read. And I am telling you "You HAVE to read this book". If you look at Mrs. Andrews website, you'll see that she loves Interior Design and that really shines through in her writing. The descriptions are so spot-on you can actually see the room around you, you experience the work Dempsey is doing on her "fixer upper" house, and feel the contentment and appreciation for the hard work she has put in.
The book is wonderfully exhilarating; it gives you a ridiculously mixed feeling of benign guilt - the book sucks you in and makes unable to stop reading, while also making you feel so inspired by the transformation that you want to get up and redecorate your entire home! Read it, you'll thank me.

Book Reviews (Sort Of)

I am finished two of the books I purchased on Friday.

Mary Kay Andrews' Deep Dish

This book was highly entertaining, as are all of M.K.A.'s books! If I haven't already said it, she is my favorite author!Definitely pick one up next time you are at the bookstore. I think my favorites are Savannah Blues and Savannah Breeze, but that's because I am partial to character follow-up.

I also finished Christopher Moore's Coyote Blue.

This is my fourth Christopher Moore novel. It was engaging and the characters were well written, but it was not my favorite. I very much enjoyed You Suck and Bloodsucking Fiends. What do you call two books about the same characters? A book and the sequel?... A series?... I am not sure, but they are funny!

More Books!

I am in PowerPoint class today instead of work. There is a Borders across the street and my lovely S-I-L got me $20 Border Bucks for my B-day. Three more books I purchased today:

It's a sickness really...

I have a problem. An addiction really. It gets in the way of my getting things accomplished. I read too much. WAY too much - like 4 - 5 book a week sometimes.

I love cheesy, girly books and anything supernatural.

I read this on Wednesday:

 About a woman named Fleur who crashes weddings to meet wealthy widowers and embezzle their money. Sounds weird, but it was engrossing and the characters were well fleshed out.

This one was over the weekend:

I have been reading Laurell's books since I was 12. I actually got suspended from school for having one at school that was quite sexually graphic. My mother knew her and apparently that made it okay for me to read them. Plus, I was a precocious child, WAY beyond my years where my reading abilities and hunger for books was concerned.

I also really love the Sookie Stackhouse series:

I still haven't seen the show, but I am thoroughly unimpressed with the casting I have seen so far in magazines...

Charlaine Harris also has a series about a woman who can sense dead bodies, as a side effect of being hit by lightning:

The only thing that bothers me about Charlaine Harris' writing style is her female characters always seem a bit slow and they are always uneducated. I wonder why that is.

I usually just go to Target, Costco, or Borders and pick a book with a fun title and a pastel cover and it hasn't steered me wrong yet!

Some others I have read in the last 6 months:

 

 

I think Mary Kay Andrews is my favorite author. Her characters are strong, loyal, and incredibly intelligent.  And most of her books are sprinkled with Interior Decoration stuff!

I really love Emily Giffin's books, as well. They are just fun!

Do any of you have a reading problem? Too much, not enough? Spill.