by Janette Oke
ONE LINE SUMMARY: When Belinda’s benefactress passes away and leaves Belinda her large home, Belinda must decide what to do with it before she can go home.
Last in the series. The earlier books are much better than the later ones.
Posted by: Supersonic Jane | January 16, 2006 | 8:28 pm
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by Janette Oke
ONE LINE SUMMARY: Belinda, Marty and Clark’s youngest, finds herself whisked up into a world of wealth when she becomes a travelling nurse-companion to a rich woman from Boston.
# 7 in the series.
Posted by: Supersonic Jane | January 16, 2006 | 8:26 pm
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by Janette Oke
ONE LINE SUMMARY: Belinda, Marty and Clark’s surprise child, is now a sensitive teenager who helps her brother Luke with his doctoring duties.
Book 6 is more interesting, with actual plot happening.
Posted by: Supersonic Jane | January 15, 2006 | 1:19 pm
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by Janette Oke
ONE LINE SUMMARY: Marty and Clark return from the West, where the family must adapt to Clark’s missing leg, and Marty finds out a surprise.
Book 5 picks up exactly where book 4 left off.
Posted by: Supersonic Jane | January 15, 2006 | 1:16 pm
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by Janette Oke
ONE LINE SUMMARY: Marty and Clark visit Missie and Willie in the West, where tragedy hits Clark.
This one is kind of boring, but I liked the description of Missie’s stone house.
Posted by: Supersonic Jane | January 15, 2006 | 1:13 pm
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by Janette Oke
ONE LINE SUMMARY: Missy moves out west with Willie.
Nothing much happens in this book other than: Missy moves out West with Willie.
Posted by: Supersonic Jane | January 13, 2006 | 8:06 pm
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by Janette Oke
ONE LINE SUMMARY: In this first book of the series, Marty, a recently-widowed young woman, meets and marries Clark, a recent widower, out of mutual need.
I don’t usually re-read this book as much as the others in the series, because I don’t like the deaths in this. But I still like reading about Marty’s attempts to cook.
Posted by: Supersonic Jane | January 8, 2006 | 6:17 pm
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by Janette Oke
ONE LINE SUMMARY: Marty sees her children grow up and get married.
Although these are Christian romances, I still enjoy them because of the “Little House on the Prairie” vibe. The “Love Comes Softly” series focuses on Marty, a young pioneer woman who travels out west with her husband. When he dies suddenly, she meets and eventually marries Clark, and their life together and the lives of their children are explored in the series. This is the second book in the series, and I still love the descriptions of food.
Posted by: Supersonic Jane | December 27, 2005 | 7:41 pm
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by Ann Brashares
ONE LINE SUMMARY: When four best friends spend their fifteenth summer apart, they take turns wearing a pair of magical pants that fit all of them.
I didn’t expect to like this as much as I did. I only read this because two actresses/characters I like, Alexis Bledel from Gilmore Girls and Amber Tamblyn from Joan of Arcadia were in the movie of this book. I didn’t see the movie, but I made a mental note to check out the book when it finally came back into the library.
I thought the idea of magical pants kind of corny, but the author doesn’t belabor the whole magical idea, and the fact that the pants fit four very different bodies is mostly accepted pretty quickly by the girls (and me).
I liked this book, but I will admit I cried during it. I’ll still be reading the next book in the series, though.
Posted by: Supersonic Jane | December 24, 2005 | 10:57 pm
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by Julia Quinn
ONE LINE SUMMARY: The youngest of the seven Bridgerton children, Hyacinth, gets married.
I don’t usually read romance books anymore, and particularly not historical ones, but I make an exception for Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton books.
This one was not as good as I remembered the previous books to be, and it may have suffered in comparison to being read just after The Undomestic Goddess which, although not strictly a romance, combines romance and plot in a far more enjoyable manner.
Then again, maybe I’m just getting sick of the sterotypical rakes who ravish multiple women and find themselves unaccountably falling in love with a virginal yet sassy heroine.
Posted by: Supersonic Jane | December 3, 2005 | 7:23 pm
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