Booking It

I love to read, and I'm blessed that my children do too. In fact, last week my 15-year-old son walked out of the library with 13 books, half of which have been read and are ready to go back! (And that's with us being gone most of the weekend, too!) So I have been reading LifeAsMom's Booking It series posts and intending to post pretty much every month but haven't until now. It's kinda like an informal book club, only you get to read what you want and you benefit from being introduced to new-to-you books that other readers post about.

In October, I didn't really read many books. I read the paper every day and my Bible almost every day for my BSF Isaiah study and our Romans study in Sunday School. I read some magazines, but unless we were waiting somewhere, I didn't pick up many books. I did, however, finish Terror by Night by Terry Caffey. It's the true story of a man whose wife and two sons were murdered, he himself seriously injured and his daughter accused of plotting the whole thing, and his faith journey through the following year or so. DD now has this on her to-be-read pile.

I recently started The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths by Pat Brown. I like crime dramas, and so far this has been very interesting to see the difference between "TV" and "real life." I'm about 1/5 through and this will be one that won't wait for waiting room-only reading!

Lastly, I am reading a book that DS asked me to read, H.I.V.E.: The Overlord Protocol. He loves fantasy/science fiction, and while that's not really my preferred genre, I generally read whatever my kids ask me to. :-) This is about a school that teaches teens and preteens who have shown a propensity for, um, illegal activities how to be better at their, uh, specialty. It's very top secret, and, of course, a secret mastermind behind the whole operation. This is the second in the series, and again, it's not something I would have chosen for myself, but it reads quickly, and it's easy to get interested in the students, and, most especially, it makes DS happy to share his favorite books with his mom. :-)