Happy New Year!

Booking through Thursday - 2009 in Review

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This week's question...

What were your favorite books of the year? (Books that were new to you in 2009, if not necessarily published this year.)

My answer...

This is an easy one since I kept track of this all year in my sidebar. My favorite books...

* 74 Seaside Avenue by Debbie Macomber
* A Worthy Legacy by Tomi Akinyanmi
* Compulsion by Jennifer Chase
* Confessions of A Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
* Confessions of A Trauma Junkie by Sherry Jones Mayo
* Die Before I Wake by Laurie Breton
* Familiar Double by Caroline Burnes
* Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
* Holly's Inbox by Holly Denham
* Jantsen's Gift by Pam Cope
* Killing Bridezilla by Laura Levine
* Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts
* Once Upon a Valentine's by Holly Jacobs
* Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson
* The Cat, The Quilt and The Corpse by Leann Sweeney
* The Diva Runs Out of Thyme by Krista Davis
* The Recipe Club by Andrea Israel & Nancy Garfinkel
* The Secret Between us by Barbara Delinsky
* The Tygrine Cat by Inbali Iserles
* Virgin River by Robyn Carr

If you go to my sidebar under Great Book Alert 2009, you can click any title to get to my reviews of the books above. I'm going to do this for 2010, too. It's a handy way to remember at the end of the year. I'll do an official 2009 wrap up over the weekend.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!

A-Z Wednesday & Book Review Wednesday

This is a fun meme hosted by Reading at the Beach

Welcome to A-Z Wednesday!!

To join, here's all you have to do: Go to your stack of books and find one whose title starts with the letter of the week.

Post:

1~ a photo of the book

2~ title and synopsis

3~ link(amazon, barnes and noble etc.)

4~ Come back here and leave your link in the comments.

If you've already reviewed this book you can add it also.

Be sure to visit other participants to see what book they have posted and leave them a comment.

(We all love comments, don't we?)

Who knows? You may find your next "favorite" book.

THIS WEEKS LETTER IS: "U "

My book this week is........

Untraceable by Laura Griffin



This is the synopsis on Amazon...



ALEX LOVELL MAKES PEOPLE DISAPPEAR.
TURNS OUT, SHE'S NOT THE ONLY ONE.

Private investigator Alexandra Lovell uses computer skills and cunning to help clients drop off the radar and begin new lives in safety. Melanie Bess, desperate to escape her abusive cop husband, was one of those clients. But when Melanie vanishes for real, Alex fears the worst, and sets out to discover what happened. Using every resource she can get her hands on -- including an elite team of forensic scientists known as the Tracers, and a jaded, sexy Austin PD detective -- Alex embarks on a mission to uncover the truth.

As far as homicide cop Nathan Deveraux is concerned, no body means no case. But as much as he wants to believe that Alex's hunch about Melanie's murder is wrong, his instincts -- and their visceral attraction -- won't let him walk away. As a grim picture of what really happened begins to emerge, Nathan realizes this investigation runs deeper than they could ever have guessed. And each step nearer the truth puts Alex in danger of being the next to disappear....

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Teaser Tuesdays - December 29th

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My book this week is an anthology The Magical Christmas Cat with stories by Lora Leigh, Erin McCarthy, Nalini Singh and Linda Winstead Jones.

This teaser is from Nalini Singh's Stroke of Enticement...

Her thoughts went from his hair to what he might look like in leopard form. A predator, all muscle and power covered with a gold-and-black coat. Would he allow a woman to stroke him? Her fingers tingled in awareness, and standing as she was in front of the vanity mirror, she saw her lips part, her eyes widen. The ache between her thighs turned into an erotic pulse.

Mailbox Monday - December 28th

Two books this week.

Killed by Clutter is part of a cozy series that I just started and looks really good.

Melinda and the Wild West is from a contest I won. I've been dying to read this one as it looks excellent.