Hi everyone! I hope that you are having a great day today. I know that I am. It’s a cool day for once during this hot summer. For my bookie check-in today I will share the books I am reading, the two I DNFed, the ones I finished, and the ones that I will be reading.

What I am Currently Reading

Apprentice baker Ivy Culpepper sees art cars everywhere she turns. Besides helping prepare the bread and pastry for Santa Sofia’s annual spring event, she’s the official photographer, documenting the elaborate cars, outspoken artists, and riotous celebrations. Even her family’s in on the act: her brother Billy has been runner-up in the competition more times than she can count—but this is going to be the year he celebrates his win in victory lane.

But after Billy’s rival, Max Litman, revs up his bombastic showmanship, Billy is once again set to cruise into second place. Until Max is found dead—positioned as a prop in his own art car. The whole town knows there’s no love lost between the two men, and Billy is the prime suspect. Now Ivy will have to sift through collusion, deception, gossip, and lies to find out what really happened. But with the help of her octogenarian Watson, her restaurateur beau, and her adopted aunts at Yeast of Eden, she knows she can take the heat . . .

Did Not Finish Books

The Devil in Ohio by Daria Polatin is a thriller about a young girl discovered on the side of the road with a pentagram carved into her back. She is taken by the hospital psychologists residence. She seems meek and shy but she begins to show her true colors. This has the daughter of the psychologist trying to save herself and her family before this mysterious girl’s past catches up to their now chaotic lives.

I listened to this as an audio book and I just lost interest as the book moves to slow for my fast reading mind. 

Real Vampires have Curves by Gerry Bartlett is about a young woman who was turned into a vampire while she was bloated from her period. She finds herself heading back to her home town and opening shop. But this change in her life has also brought her sire and a blood thirsty vampire hunter on their trails. She is trying to survive and fight her re-blossoming love for her sire.

This book is really funny! I do like it. I just have trouble reading at work and I was also in a different head space for what I wanted to read. It gives me sex in the city meets vampires. I’ll come back but I ain’t in the mood for this! 

The Books I’ve Finished

Books That I Look Forward to Reading