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Title: The Best Thing Author: Mariana Zapata This book was all right. The cursing goes a bit overboard, in my opinion, almost like the author is just going for a reaction. That may or may not be true, but that's what it felt like to me. There's a whole plot line introduced with the main character Lenny's biological grandmother that felt pointless, because it didn't really go anywhere. The main love story is sweet. There's a big "reveal" in the book that I think was supposed to be a surprise, but I called it very early on in the book. All of that said, there are several laugh-out-loud moments, particularly concerning Grandpa Gus, and that is the main saving grace for this book, in my opinion. Because of Grandpa Gus and Peter, this book gets three out of five stars. Otherwise, it'd probably be less. It wasn't bad; it just wasn't great, either. ------------------------- READING PROGRESS: Needful Things by Stephen King: 84% Dracula by B...

Title: Written in My Own Heart's Blood Author: Diana Gabaldon It has been an insanely long time since I reviewed a book, and I'm sorry. Life got a little crazy there for a while. I started a new job, and we are house hunting, on top of all the normal craziness that comes with being a mother of two small kids. But anyway, here we are, over a month since my last review. This book was very long, so it took me longer than I'd like to admit to read it. It was very emotionally heavy at parts, which added to the length of time it took me to read. There is one particular scene where I cried like a baby and had to put the book down for an extended period of time to recover (this is one reason why I read multiple books at a time--so I can continue to read if I just can't continue with a book immediately for some reason).  A friend of mine said that, though Diana Gabaldon often has heavy subject matter in her books, you can always have faith that there is a point ...