Book 8 - 2020
Book 8: Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich & Dorien Kelly - 310 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:
Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she's been fired as a magazine editor, and she's got nothing left but the Nutshell--her parents' summer house in Keene's Harbor, Michigan. Kate hopes to turn the Nutshell into a bed-and-breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can find involves beer and espionage.
Matt Culhane wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees. Someone has been sabotaging his company, and if Kate finds the culprit, Matt will pay her a $20,000 bonus. Unfortunately, Kate despises beer, her co-workers don't trust her--and she's falling hard for her boss. Can these two smoke out a saboteur, save Kate's B&B, and keep a killer from closing in all while resisting their undeniable attraction to one another?
Thoughts:
Why I'm on this weird endeavour to read everything Janet Evanovich has written I do not know (its not like her writing is mind-blowing or anything). At this point, I think its just because it doesn't require me to think that hard. Love in a Nutshell features a character similar to Stephanie Plum but with a lot more initiative and some semblance of a plan, though Evanovich seems to like writing those down-on-their-luck characters, seemingly with the intention of making her characters relatable rather than aspirational (I personally don't find them relatable, but that's all I can come up with for why they all seem to be in some state of trying to get their life together far past an age where that should be necessary). Said character meets an attractive man through a series of circumstances and its instant chemistry. They dance around each other for most of the book. And there is a crime to be solved. The Plum template is there. It's an enjoyable enough read if you're interested in beer (its set in a microbrewery) and fluff.
8 / 50 books. 16% done!
2320 / 15000 pages. 15% done!
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The Odyssey by Homer - 324 pages
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Description from bookdepository.co.uk:
Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she's been fired as a magazine editor, and she's got nothing left but the Nutshell--her parents' summer house in Keene's Harbor, Michigan. Kate hopes to turn the Nutshell into a bed-and-breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can find involves beer and espionage.
Matt Culhane wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees. Someone has been sabotaging his company, and if Kate finds the culprit, Matt will pay her a $20,000 bonus. Unfortunately, Kate despises beer, her co-workers don't trust her--and she's falling hard for her boss. Can these two smoke out a saboteur, save Kate's B&B, and keep a killer from closing in all while resisting their undeniable attraction to one another?
Thoughts:
Why I'm on this weird endeavour to read everything Janet Evanovich has written I do not know (its not like her writing is mind-blowing or anything). At this point, I think its just because it doesn't require me to think that hard. Love in a Nutshell features a character similar to Stephanie Plum but with a lot more initiative and some semblance of a plan, though Evanovich seems to like writing those down-on-their-luck characters, seemingly with the intention of making her characters relatable rather than aspirational (I personally don't find them relatable, but that's all I can come up with for why they all seem to be in some state of trying to get their life together far past an age where that should be necessary). Said character meets an attractive man through a series of circumstances and its instant chemistry. They dance around each other for most of the book. And there is a crime to be solved. The Plum template is there. It's an enjoyable enough read if you're interested in beer (its set in a microbrewery) and fluff.
8 / 50 books. 16% done!
2320 / 15000 pages. 15% done!
Currently reading:
Journey to the West by Cheng-En Wu - 673 pages
Vox by Christina Dalcher - 326 pages
Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar - 386 pages
And coming up:
The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: Volume 3: White Gold Wielder by Stephen Donaldson - 500 pages
The Odyssey by Homer - 324 pages
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton - 496 pages