Half Broke Horses - Jeannette Walls

Love!  Love!  Loved this book! 

Another great story from Jeannette Walls. 

This one was for Book Club and we all LOVED it!

I'm so glad we read The Glass Castle last year because it really helped set the scenery & characters for this story.

Jeannette's grandmother really was quite a woman and a character!

She was very strong and modern for her time.

Even if this story is embellished, it is a great tale of a different time and place!

Their life on the ranch is so fascinating to me just 'cause it's so different than what I know.  And I find it even more interesting that they found 'city life' so odd!

I'm really glad we read this book and I'd absolutely read it again.

I'd read more from Jeannette Walls!  Tell us more great stories!!!  :)

A Killer Stitch - Maggie Sefton

This month's book is A Killer Stitch by Maggie Sefton.

So far, so cute.

It took me a bit to get into this one.  It was a lotta talk at first of knitting and coffee.

Once we had a mystery on our hands, it definitely picked up.

This is a cute read and it was chosen cause everyone knows I love to knit!

This book comes with a cable scarf pattern as well as a fudge recipe!

I'm gonna try and make the scarf, but not til after I finish this book.

I didn't even read the last one so I wanna be good and finish this one.  Also cause it was kinda picked for me... ;-)

UPDATE: Well, I finished it...  I did!  And... it was ok...  Out of the four of us, only two of us read it!  We (two) both agreed that it just had no 'umph'... No kick!  No mystery!

I will say, though... I was surprised at who 'did it' but only because I forgot they were even a character!

There were way toooooo many characters in this story.  And I'm not quite sure why.

Oh well... It was an easy read.

And I did start the pattern just to see what it would be like.  Much like the story, the pattern doesn't have much 'umph' either.

A cable on each side of the edge.  It would make a cute basic scarf.

I'm glad I didn't make the fudge.  ;-)