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I am thrilled to report that with the help of my daughter’s fantastic teacher and the use of the Bob Books series by Bobbie Lynn Maslen and John R. Maslen, my daughter can read!

She has been working on the books in this series and the other night, she came over to me with book four and read the entire thing to me! I was so surprised because I had no idea that she could read. She didn’t seem quite ready to do it on her own during my story times with her. Needless to say, I am thrilled. She is my little reader and will enjoy books as much as I do. I can already see it. My son? Still working on him 🙂

As for my own reading, I am reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult and The Prudent Mariner by Leslie Walker Williams. I should get plenty of time to read today because I am having a procedure done in an attempt to find out what the heck is wrong with my throat/mouth. Every time I eat, food gets stuck in my throat. It’s not pleasant! However, I really think I need to go to a ENT and not Gastroenterologist but I guess they are ruling stuff out. Since I am being put out, I am taking the entire day off.

My boss sort of indicated that she wanted me to work from home afterward. I just laughed.

This week’s pre-publication “can’t-wait-to-read” selection is:

Cemetery Dance

By Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Publication Date: May 12, 2009

Here’s the blurb from Barnes and Noble:

“Pendergast-the world’s most enigmatic FBI Special Agent-returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult.William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbor-a man who, by all reports, was already dead and buried weeks earlier. While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta undertake their own private-and decidedly unorthodox-quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived.”

Preston and Child write really well together. I always enjoy their books even though crime fiction is not typically my thing. I can’t wait for this one to come out. You may recall the movie Relic? Well it was based on their book of the same name. Their books are like going on an adventure without leaving the safety of your home. Love ’em.

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