Book Recommendations For Your Weekend and Kittens!

TGIF!! I'm looking forward to the weekend for some odd reason. We have a retirement party we're supposed to be going to tomorrow night, and I may be getting out with a friend at some point to see New Moon for a sixth time too. That's probably why I'm looking forward to it. I love getting out and doing things! I get bored in the house and am always looking forward to things that get me out and about.

The big news of today is that Jim got a kitten for Scarlett from a coworker. I had to go pick it up from his office earlier today, and it is now roaming around the house freaking out out two other cats and scaring our big 90+ pound black lab by just looking at him wrong. It's pretty funny to watch. He's the cutest little orange kitten and seems really sweet, but our other animals are freaked out by the foreigner.

So, if you have nothing planned this weekend, I was thinking I should suggest some books that I have on my reading list to check out. Currently, I'm reading Dear, John by Nicholas Sparks since the movie will be coming out sometime early this year. I'm looking forward to seeing Channing Tatum in that movie as he is a total hottie.

Also on my list of books to read, I have received To Save a Life by Jim and Rachel Britts from my sister who said it was so good she read it in four hours straight. The movie opens today in select theaters around the country and sounds like it will be very good. I plan to take Scarlett and a friend of hers a couple weeks after it opens and it's less crazy to go see.

Finally, I picked up the brand new book The Secret Year by Jennifer R. Hubbard at the library and plan to read it as well. I heard about this book on Nathan Bransford's blog since he is the literary agent for Ms. Hubbard. I trust his taste in good YA books and look forward to reading it as soon as I finish the other two books on my list.

One more thing to add, James Patterson's new book Witch and Wizard sounds really good, and I've placed it on request at our local library to see if I can get a copy to read too. I saw it on sale at Walmart the other day and almost bought it, but refrained from doing so and just requested it at the library the next time I was up there. Since I go at least weekly, that wasn't much of a wait.

There, I have officially given you something to do this weekend if you were lacking ideas. Go to your local library and see if they have any of these books available. Any one of them should be guaranteed to keep you enjoying your weekend!

The music of the moment today is brought to you by Taylor Swift off her Fearless album and is "You Belong With Me". I love this song of teen angst in love. I write about the same stuff so I can totally relate to how she feels in this song. As a writer, I have characters in my head that have gone through the same thing. Just because you never heard me talk about these characters doesn't mean I haven't thought them up and am waiting for a later date to start working on the book to go with the character.

On a side note... I got a cat toy out for the kitten, and it is totally cracking me up going ballistic chasing around this toy. It's totally cute and fun to watch. I highly recommend everyone should get a kitten for the entertainment value. :-)