# 37 -- The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children is another wonderful book from Stormie Omartian. I've read several of her books, including her autobiography, and they are amazing. Stormie has such a gift to be able to know exactly what the reader needs to know to pray effectively.

I am not ashamed to say that her book, The Power of a Praying Wife, saved my marriage and continues to help me pray for my husband. I have also used The Power of a Praying Parent to pray for my daughter. This new book will help me pray for her when she leaves for college and continues her journey into adulthood.

There are a variety of prayer books by Stormie, I encourage you to find one that fits your needs.

# 36 -- Size 12 is Not Fat

We've got a lot of Meg Cabot's books in our high school library. I've been looking at them for years, have heard her speak at different conferences, and know the young girls love her stuff. I've never read anything she's written. I know....I'm a horrible librarian!

Okay, not really...actually, when I was in the elementary school she hadn't yet published her pre-teen novels and when I got to the high school there were a lot of books to read. But I ran across this one at my daughter's high school library (which doubles as the public library as well) and thought I would give it a chance.

Very enjoyable and worth the time! I listened to it on the way to Austin for the Texas Library Association Annual Convention and really liked it. I plan to read the rest of them soon!

# 35 -- Big Jack

Another in the "in Death" series by J. D. Robb. This is one I missed back in the list because it doesn't have the "in Death" tag like the other titles. It's like a novella only a little longer than her other novellas.

As with all the J. D. Robb books....I LOVE Eve Dallas and Rourke! I could listen to these stories only and be very happy!

# 34 -- Girl Stolen

If you remember, about a month ago, I wrote about the book, Blindsided -- the story of a teenager losing her sight. Well, this book, Girl Stolen, is about a teen who is blind and is abducted by a car-jacker. The boy who takes the car, doesn't know the girl is in the back seat until it's too late to let her go.

This was a fast-paced YA novel that I couldn't put down....mostly because I wanted to reach into the book and put the hurt on the criminals in the story! Definitely worth the read!

# 33 -- The Maze Runner

The Maze Runner by James Dashner is another novel in the dystopia genre. It's the first in a trilogy, the second book The Scorch Trials has just recently been published and the last book will be titled The Death Cure.

This book reminded me of a civilized, end-of-the-world version of The Lord of the Flies (though I haven't read that since high school), except that there are "others" somewhere in control of the maze and it's inhabitants.

It was a hard book to start (of course I was coming off being sick and didn't really feel like reading), but I did WANT to read it and so I pushed through. I'm beginning to "hate" these books that are part of a series though. I'm tired of reading and waiting for the end, only to find out that I'll have to read another book or two to really understand the story as a whole.

I don't know if I'll read the other two books in this trilogy. I'll have to wait and see, but this book was interesting and I enjoyed it.

# 32 -- The Cleaner

This story was good, but might have been easier to follow if I was reading it instead of listening to it. There were lots of characters and the story moves all over the planet.

It started in one setting (northern mid-west of the U.S., I think) and ends up in Europe. The plot twists and turns and adds layers until I had totally forgotten where we had started from. (Of course that could have been my ill health and the fact that it took so long for me to finish the book.)

There are other stories with this character (Jonathan Quinn) and I wouldn't mind reading another one to see if the next one is more tightly written....sometimes the first novel is always the hardest one to read and the writer gets better the more they hone their craft.

This is not an excuse....only an explanation!

I haven't posted anything in a month. I hate that, because I was really doing well at the beginning of the year. HOWEVER....I got strep throat, a sinus infection and bronchitis ALL AT THE SAME TIME over Spring Break....go me! I felt horrible and didn't read for almost two weeks!

When we came back to school after Spring Break, I send my computer to the "shop" for an upgrade and had to backup all my files onto a flash drive. My reading Excel sheet was one of those files so I couldn't access it for a few days and THEN I misplaced the flash drive. I know, I know....don't even get me started....

Anyway, that's what it's been like for the last month. Just crazy stuff happening, and me not getting my posts done. But now, I'm back! I've got my list caught up and I'm going to try to get all caught up here in the next day or so....hope I haven't completely lost you! :)

On, and BTW.....HAPPY EASTER!

I am Reading!

I just haven't been able to write anything recently. My computer was in the shop and I've been busy at work. I've got two or three books to write about so I'll try to get to them this weekend!