Read. Watch. Listen. Inquire.

I found this new app called Overdrive . It's basically a Netflix for books - but the books are from your local library and all you need is a library card. An acquaintance of mine told me about it while we were at our Tuesday night yarn club gathering at the Yarn Cow in Jacksonville, FL. I have a decent drive to and from work and I started getting audio books from the library, but haven't had a chance in a long while. But now, with this app, I can request audio or ebooks and check them out without ever entering the library, which is really convenient. The first book I listened to was Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millett. It wasn't a bad book, but I couldn't really get into it. There were some interesting parts like a kidnapping and the pursuit of mermaids - or was it to protect the mermaids? But it started out really slow. This book is about protecting nature, or at least that's what I figured it was about towards the end. Protecting the reef and the wildlif...

I've never read Jennifer Weiner before, but know that she writes what most people call: beach reads - a book that's easy and fun to read. No one wants to read Anna Karenina on the beach, right? So you need something - I don't want to say dumbed down, but yes, dumbed down. Something that everyone can understand, laugh about, maybe even cry a little. I bought this book a while ago at my local Books-A-Million on a sales rack and it's been sitting collecting dust in my book shelf with numerous other books for months. I haven't been reading a lot lately - sad, but true - but I've been busy and was reading Dan Brown for months. It's not that I couldn't get into it, but if you've read Brown, he has so much facts in there that you really have to pay attention and reading at work or while you're renovating a house, I put it down then have to go back and read a chapter or two before I can remember what happened. I also can't read more than one b...