I just finished Free Love and fucking LOVED it! I couldn't put it down! Next book club meeting is October 5th and we have a special surprise in store for everyone! We are doing a murder mystery! Ohhhh....how fun!

I just finished reading Up Close and Personal. It was a decent and quick read. I started last night and finished this morning. You totally knew where the book was going the entire time, but the characters were really likable. Fern Michaels is a huge animal fan and includes lots of pets in all of her books. I will just say that this can get terribly old. I like cats and dogs, too, but enough already. Please stop devoting so much print to them. Maybe that was her creative way to fluff the text and make the book longer. I have to start looking for something like that.

Next up is The Zookeeper's Wife. It is based on a true story of a couple who smuggled Jews into the Warsaw Zoo during World War II. Should be interesting.

I finished I Love You, Beth Cooper the other night. It was really entertaining and I would highly recommend it. If there is any part of a geek in you-and face it, most of us blogging for sure have that-you would enjoy this one. It is really a quick read and is pretty funny. On to the next book now. I got two at the library. I think I will go with the romance novel next because I will be too embarrassed to read that on a plane.

I am loving I Love You, Beth Cooper. My old roommate Laura had recommended the book to me. She said it was funny and entertaining. It was also featured in the University of Illinois Alumni magazine this summer as Larry Doyle is a U of I alumnus. So, I finally put it on reserve at the library and decided to read it. It has literally made me laugh out loud more times than I can count. The book revolves around Denis Cooverman, valedictorian of Buffalo Grove High School, and his ambiguously gay best friend, Rich Munsch. It starts out with Denis' speech at high school graduation and then the rest transpires on graduation night while hanging out with Beth Cooper and her two friends Cammy and Treece. It has a Can't Hardly Wait or Dazed and Confused feel to it. This book is really funny. There were two quotes I wanted to share, but I cannot find them now.

The BAMFs met for another round of bookclub this past weekend. There were six of us in attendance. Jeanette was not able to attend, unfortunately, because of work. We went to Wishbone in Berwyn for some Southern cooking. The food was fine. Our service was mediocre. I was really surprised by how busy it was. We did actually get to talk about our book, Montana Sky by Nora Roberts. Of the six of us, three were completely finished with the book and three had about 150 pages left. Thus, we didn't get to discuss it all. I think everyone was pleasantly surprised that they were totally digging a romance novel after having looked down on them with disdain. Our next book club will be at Jenny!'s and then the holiday bookclub will be at my house. Jenny and Jeanette have yet to reveal what the October book is, so we are all anxiously awaiting this information.

So far in Montana Sky there is a whole lot of sexual tension...but NO fucking! I want the fucking!

I have to decided to proudly embrace my romance novels and include most of the novels I read on this blog. I am sure there will be a few with covers or titles that embarrass me far too much to include. I saw this book at Target, but didn't buy it because I guessed, as did occur, that my mom would buy it. My mom always buys books by Carly Phillips. They are usually "Bookmarked" at Target when they are new on paperback. I took it from my parents and asked my mom how it was. Her review was so-so. By the way, my favorite thing in the world is when my mom hands me a book and says "You might want to read this. It wasn't very good." Oh, that's right, I have so much time on my hand that I want your crappy books. Seriously! Back to the topic. I actually liked the book. The characters came together fairly quickly and there wasn't all this drama involving contrived, barely existent conflict. They knew they would end up together and so did the reader. They just had to solve a mystery and stay alive to do so. The author also did one of my other non-favorite things which was introduce other characters who one will then have to buy her next book in the fall to find out what happens to. Oh, those clever romance writers. What to read next, that is the question. I will most likely start I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle. It was recommended to me by my friend Laura.

I stopped reading Finn, then started Confessions of a Shopaholic, then stopped that and started reading Montana Sky. I have to read Montana Sky by Friday and then pass it along to Jeanette. That's a lot of pressure and I am not sure if I can pull it off.

I stopped reading Finn because I kept falling asleep reading it on the train...not good. It's not that I don't like the book, it just can't keep me awake and enthralled enough to read on. It's also a bit of a slow read as well. Confessions of a Shopaholic is pretty funny, easy reading that is perfect for the train. It's acceptable if I forget what I just read...but Finn, you kind of need to remember things.

I am looking forward to book club this Friday...still not sure where we are going!

I finished our book club book, Montana Sky by Nora Roberts. This book was my suggestion since I am an avid romance novel reader. I know they are considered to be crappy, but I love them. Some of them are extremely crappy quite truthfully, but others I just love. This seemed like a good choice since this was one of my favorites and a good book for those who aren't super into the genre. I am not saying much about it since I am probably the one one finished so far (I know this because two of you bookclubbers are borrowing it).

The overall plot summary is that three half-sisters-Willa, Tess, and Lily-are forced to live together on a ranch for a year in order to receive their inheritance. In addition to the romantic and sisterly relationships, there is quite a bit of intrigue as someone is killing humans and slaughtering animals. I am really curious to see how people will feel about this one.

Last night, I watched the movie version of the book. I think it was originally shown on Lifetime. I found out about the movie inadvertently on iTunes and then got the movie from Netflix. I would not recommend the movie. I tend to create really strong visuals and ideas of how people look, act, and talk while reading. For me, very few movies made from books can live up to the book. It is also tough to condense a 500-page novel into under two hours. I also thought that some of the changes were dumb and unnecessary. Changing one character from a lawyer to a cop did not help the plot. There was also little room for character development. Again, take a pass.

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OMG! This is my first blog! I'm really excited about being able to post on BAMF's! Jenny said that I can't use pink, green, orange, or blue because those are other peoples ink colors already. I am kind of disappointed about that because those are all of the good colors. I guess I should have joined sooner.

Anyways, I am reading Bright Lights, Big Ass.....Jen Lancaster's 2nd book. Pretty funny so far! It's really easy light reading. She's interviewing for another temp job now. She does a lot of complaining.

Just finished the last Harry Potter! Also excellent! Some people didn't like epilouge chapter where they tell what happened 19yrs later, but I was happy about this.

When Harry was talking to Dumbledore and there was something whimpering in the corner......this was part of Voldemort's soul that was dead now, right?

Yay 1st blog!