{"id":2129,"date":"2011-11-30T04:16:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T04:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.com\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2011-12-14T04:12:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T04:12:58","slug":"what-im-reading-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/?p=2129","title":{"rendered":"What I’m Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Time for reading? \u00a0Who has that?<\/p>\n

If you count five minutes of reading when I get to bed before my eye lids shut, then I do!<\/p>\n

This book has kept me interested right from the start, and despite the limited amount of time (um, ZERO) that I have to sink into an easy chair, curl up and read, I’m still enjoying getting through it bit by bit, in bed . . . challenging my eyelids to focus and stay open.<\/p>\n

When you’re faced with this kind of a situation (an extreme lack of time for relaxing enjoyment), a good, quality book is the only thing that will keep you coming back for more. \u00a0Many books have laid on my bedside table, unfinished, and covered with dust as they just didn’t keep my attention between times when I was able to pick it up.<\/p>\n

On a recent trip to Vancouver, having finished my previous book, I was in the market for a new one. \u00a0I was at a large bookstore chain, trying to remember the name of a book that had been suggested to me by a friend this summer, and the customer service representative recommended this one . . . and it was the book from the summer! \u00a0Two random recommendations had to make it good!<\/p>\n

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The Forgotten Garden<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Kate Morton<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is the first book in a series of three, and it a dramatic “literary” mystery that is told from the perspectives of a number of generations. \u00a0Jumping between time periods is easy to follow along with and the characters are a family of women, who are attempting in each of their time periods, to trace back Nell’s parentage. \u00a0Nell is presented as the Grandmother, and oldest of the generations, \u00a0and it was her, who was discovered at the age of four alone, on a dock in Australia. \u00a0She was quickly taken in by an adoptive couple and life continued on from there. \u00a0The book unravels the mystery \u00a0regarding who Nell really was and where she had come from.<\/p>\n

The story flows easily, is easy to pick up again from when you last put it down, and has enough twists and turns to keep you wanting to continue reading.<\/p>\n

I am definitely looking forward to the next two books in this series. \u00a0I don’t dare read the back cover of any of them until I’m completely finished the book before!<\/p>\n

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