In 2008, I combined my love of books with my love of parties. The idea was simple... our family would choose and read a great book. I would invite others to read the same book. I would collect $5 from each participant, plan games, contests, decorations, food and prizes all focused on the theme of the book! The money given by each participant would allow an ample budget for loads of book club party fun! The parties have been wildly successful. As a homeschool mom, I'm proud to say that we learn a little something, too!



Read more here about me, my family and my Book Club Parties. Discuss with me upcoming books and parties, make book suggestions, discuss other books I've read or books you're reading. Also, hopefully (sometime soon) get complete BOOK CLUB PARTY INSTRUCTIONS for all the book club parties I've thrown since 2008!

Friday, October 22, 2010

Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris

Here's the thing... I just might not be smart enough to read from the genre of mysteries~ at least without taking notes! Maybe mysteries are only for those who harber an inner sleuth. I'm more the type to read a book for merely the "ride" without caring to think too much about the whys and what fors of the whole story. All this said, I did enjoy GRACE SIGHT which is the first book in The Harper Connely mystery series written by Charlaine Harris. I just didn't put it all together until the author spelled it all out for me in the last chapter. Is that the way most people read mysteries? I don't know, but it's certainly THE WAY I READ THEM, but back to the book in question... The main character is a twenty-four year old woman named Harper who travels from job to job with her stepbrother, Tolliver. The job is finding dead people! Harper was struck by lightning when she was younger, and the effect was the odd gift of knowing excactly how a dead person died. It's a job she and her stepbrother and bestfriend make $5,000 a pop for doing. In this first novel they find themselves in a complicated situation though. After finding a body they were paid to find and explaining how the body spent it's last moments alive a series of murders begin and Harper and Tolliver are suspects.

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