I haven't forgotten that I have a book blog--I've just been busy helping other people add to their own libraries. I chaired the Scholastic Book Fair at our elementary school this week. I love doing it, but it is an exhausting job. It involves endurance, patience, and a loud voice. I can tell you that the hot books were "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney, " "Ark Angel" by Anthony Horowitz, and "The Dangerous Book for Boys" by Conn and Hal Iggulden.
I managed to fit in two books in the past three weeks. "Force of Nature" by Suzanne Brockmann was the typical romantic suspense novel except for two things--it included two romances and one was a gay male romance. I enjoy Brockmann's storylines but often avoid her books due to the bad language, but I decided to give her books another go. I was surprised that this book spent equal time on a heterosexual romance and a homosexual romance. I was repulsed and fascinated at the same time. The two romances were portrayed in a very similar way except for the amount of explicitness. I think it will probably be a long time before I try one of her books again.
"The First Commandment" by Brad Thor fit into the patriotic American spy thriller genre. The main character of the series--Scot Harvath--is the rugged American version of James Bond (without the tongue-in-cheek humor), rescuing our country from the big, bad terrorists. I enjoy these books, but Scot Harvath is sometimes just too good to be true, getting out of bad situations with too much ease. They are fun, simplified versions of Tom Clancy, but I think that Vince Flynn is a much better author in this genre.
