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   This year, I finally got Dan hooked on audiobooks for our road trips.  They really make two hour car rides go by SO much faster!    We don't always love them.  I think we tried 3 or 4 just in the past week that we couldn't get through the sample without yawning.  There are a couple where I thought I would enjoy reading the book, but the audiobook was just too dry to listen to.   These are audiobooks we truly loved: The Martian This was truly fantastic.  I chose it because it was on the Great American Read list, and I thought Dan might enjoy it.  I really didn't expect to love it myself.  I was wrong.  I loved it. Dan later rented the movie and watched it while I was out one night.  He said it was good, but not nearly as good as the book.  He's learning...  LOL! "Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.  Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die t...

In my typical cliff notes version - If I can recommend just one book to you this year, it would be Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.  Even if you don't think the description sounds like something you would enjoy - just try it.  It's beautifully written, and my favorite read so far this year. It's been a great year for reading!  According to my Good Reads log, I've read 73 books so far this year. The rainy days have made for great reading weather, if nothing else.  :-) One of my new favorites is the Agatha Raisin series by M.C. Beaton .  " Agatha Raisin is a frustrated, yet endearing, PR agent who retires from London to Carsley village in the Cotswolds, English Midlands and solves murders."  It's not a ground breaking series, nothing incredible about the books, but I am just loving the character.  She's brash and rude, and somewhat bumbling..  but she's honest and loyal and funny, and she's British.  It reminds me of a much older, classier, B...

Books To Read When You Can Be Caching - Part Two Last year I compiled a list of geocaching themed fiction. This year when I went to update the post with the additional books that have been published, or that I have since learned about, there were just too many to add to the original post.  You can see last years list here: http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/05/geocaching-novels-mysteries-to-read.html I've updated that post with my opinions of the ones I have read - my two favorites from that list were The Advocates Geocache by Teresa Burrell & To Cache A Killer by Karen Nortman I also have a list of Young Adult Geocaching themed novels here: http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/05/ya-geocaching-themed-novels.html Hope You Guess My Name by Heather Harlen If plucky heroines had their own secret society, Marina Koneyshna, Stephanie Plum and Bridget Jones would all know the handshake. Life has gone to H-E-double hockey sticks for event planner Marina Konyeshna. A break up h...

I keep a list of books of Christmas themed books that I want to read, and as with my full to read list, it grows faster than I can possibly read. (Often my Christmas reading list introduces me to new series, which extends my general to read list... )  Looking back over my goodreads list, I have definitely made a dent over the years, these were some of my favorites.   Letters From Father Christmas by JRR Tolkien https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7331.Letters_from_Father_Christmas This is an amazing book that I own in hardcover, and I really recommend buying a copy.  It is absolutely wonderful. A collection of letters written by JRR Tolkein each year, for his children. " The letters were from Father Christmas.  They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how the reindeer got loose and scattered presents everywhere; how the accident-prone North Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house; how he broke the Moon...