Book Review: The Rivers Run Dry

I was pleasantly surprised by the book, The Rivers Run Dry, by Sibella Giorello. I do not normally read books from the suspense genre but I really enjoyed this book. It was hard to put down.

The book is about an FBI agent named Raleigh Harmon who has been relocated to Seattle. She lives with her mother and aunt, who are both fabulous characters in the story. I can picture these women in my mind and I love the eccentricities they bring to the story. She is investigating the disappearance of a woman. The crime unfolds into a unpredictable and suspenseful story. I consider myself pretty good and predicting the end of books, but this one was hard to guess. I loved that the book was suspenseful and chilling, without being gruesome or overly graphic.

I would have loved for their to be a bit of romance in the plot. Raleigh is such a like able character and I am a sucker for a love story. I also felt some of the interactions with Raleigh and the other FBI agents were somewhat cliche and predictable.

I think that Sibella Giorello is a very talented author who has a bright literary career ahead of her. I look forward to reading additional novels written by her. I would love to see Raleigh turned into a series.

Here is a link to more information about this book
http://brb.thomasnelson.com/blogger/resources/48

My summer reading list

I have some books I would like to read this summer. They include

The entire collection of Stephanie Laurens Bastian Club
The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells
The Scenic Route by Binnie Kirshenbaum
The Physick Book of Delverance Dane by Katherine Howe
The House of Night series

I guess a lot of what I will read will depend on what my small town library has to offer.

My baby trees

My husband and dad planted 2 trees in our yard at the end of last summer. One of them is a plain old maple tree that was planted in our front yard. The second tree is a flowering pear tree that we planted in the back yard. I am going to measure how tall they are so I can see how much they have grown by the end of summer.

Here are their current stats. I wish I had measured them when we planted them.
Maple tree- 9feet 9 inches
Pear tree- just under 6feet

Update! September 27th, 2009
Maple Tree- 11 feet
Pear Tree- 7 feet 5 inches