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1) What are you currently reading? Tell us about it!
I just finished "The Bet" and "The Wager".  I really liked both books.  They were quick, fun, easy reads with a cute love story.  Here's the amazon description for both....

The Bet

"I have a proposition for you." Kacey should have run the minute those words left Seattle millionaire Jake Titus's mouth. It's been years since Kacey's seen her childhood friend Jake, but the minute Jake mentions his ill grandmother, Kacey is ready to do anything for the sweet old woman. And if that means pretending they're engaged for her sake-so be it.

But Kacey wasn't counting on Jake's older brother Travis still being there. She calls him "Satan" for a reason: she's never forgotten the way he teased and taunted her. Yet when they meet again, Travis's gorgeous smile is a direct hit to her heart . . . and Kacey's more confused than ever. As the days pass, only one thing starts to become alarmingly clear-she never should have accepted Jake's deal ...

80,000 words

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The Wager


What is it about a junior-high crush that can send an otherwise intelligent woman into a tailspin? TV reporter Char Lynn wishes she knew. Jake Titus is too rich, too handsome, too arrogant: a trifecta that once lured Char into the best night-and worst morning-after-of her life. Now they've been thrown together in a wedding party. It's awkward, but survivable . . . until Jake stops acting like a jerk, and starts acting like the man she'd always hoped he could be.

If watching your brother marry your best friend is weird, being attracted to your best friend's other best friend is downright bizarre. Unfortunately for Jake, Char hasn't forgotten how he once tossed her aside. Worse still, Jake's already-nutty grandma is even crazier about Char. Cue meet-cute shenanigans and all manner of meddling, and somehow, Jake's falling. For Char. Now all he has to do is make her believe it . . .


2) How many books have you read this year? Do
you set reading goals for yourself?

I have no idea.  I do not set goals, but I'd say I probably average 1 book a week.

3) What do you think are the best and worst book-to-movie/TV show adaptations?

I thought Silver Linings Playbook was a fairly good adaption, but I still liked the book more.  The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks was a great book to movie (most of his books are). 

Honestly, while I like the twilight movies--I thought the books were so much better.  They movies did not do them justice--in my opinion.
4) What is the first line of your favorite book?

I have 2:
1.  "All he could see, in every direction, was water."  Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

2.  "Until Miss Debbie, I'd never spoke to no white woman before."  Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore