Book of the Week, Aug-Dec, '14

Since I've been away from the blog for the past several months, I have a ton of books I've read for the book of the week challenge, that I've not posted about. To simplify matters, I'm just going to list the books that I've read over the last few months here.

The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox, and Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex. I really loved this series! Also, I hadn't realized until just now as I was double-checking the titles to type them up, but there's an eighth book, Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian, which came out in 2012. Looks like I've got another one to read during my Christmas vacation!

I also read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, one of my all time favorites from sixth grade reading class.

My mom has a book series about Cheney Duvall, M.D., with the setting in the U.S. in the years immediately following the American Civil War. The authors are Lynn and Gilbert Morris, and I'm a big fan of them, as well! That was an eight book series, which I am following up with a three book series about Cheney and her husband. The first series was about Cheney as a single woman. So I'm halfway through the second book now!

I also read the third book from the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, Voyager. I read the first two of the series over the summer, and I must be honest, I am not such a fan of the series. I don't care much for the style or some of the frequent themes within the books.

Last, but not least, I really enjoyed an Agatha Christie novel, Ordeal by Innocence last week. Agatha Christie is such fun! I have a good friend from early in college that had an Agatha Christie obsession, and he always insisted that I list all of the characters in the story and rank them in order of who I thought was the guilty party, on down to the least likely to be the murderer. Oh my gosh, it drove me crazy!! I did that a little bit with Ordeal by Innocence, though, just to see how good my guess was as to who was the the murderer, and it was actually pretty fun!