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On Friday me and the children went out and picked up some potting soil along with some worms, some seeds and a container to put the worms in.

On Saturday we went to the farmers market. We didn’t pick up any plants though they had a ton there but instead I found on the way leaving there that they had the containers for putting pairs and apples in. They are set in rows with round bottoms for the fruit and are made of that recyclable paper material. I got it and figured we could use them as planters to start off our seedlings!

Yes, I’ve been gone for a while but it doesn’t mean that I haven’t been keeping up with my goals.

In the past month I’ve managed to read 4 books:

The 5th Horseman by James Patterson- This book was co-written by another author and sorry to say, it was just so and so like many of the other mysteries I’ve read. Quick and easy read but nothing new and nothing that made me remember it all to much.

Double Cross by James Patterson-I was informed that the Alex Cross series is where I should start if I was looking for a good mystery. I picked up this one because it was the first book listed in the cover of every book so I assumed it was the first book. Nope, it’s the latest one. I really was annoyed by this one. It moved quickly like all of Pattersons books but it was nothing special and the characters were all about sex which drove me up the darn wall. I just got sick of the “I’m horny” talk.

Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy-This is the best book I’ve read for the whole month of March! It is based in Ireland and written by an Irish author. I’m not sure if it’s these tid bits or just that the writer has true talent, but I loved the tone and voice of the piece. It wasn’t as quick to read as some of my other books but it was not at all slow. It was like reading a bunch of short stories and I just enjoyed watching the lives of these people unfold.

That’s all the Fiction I read. I also picked up and finished a non-fiction book, Beyond the Body Farm by Bill Bass- This was a pretty good book which went over the forensics involved in with dead bodies (the actual word is escaping me at the moment!). I enjoyed it, it was interesting and a pretty fast read. I’m amazed at how much I learned.

Right now I’m reading “Birthing from Within” but I’m not sure if I’ll finish it this month since it’s more of a birth class book and has lessons in it to fellow. I’m not sure about what I’ll be reading next…maybe non-fiction?

I just finished reading “The Missing” by Chris Mooney.

Okay, maybe I don’t understand the whole “thriller” vs “suspense” deal here. The Mary Higgins Clark book had me on the edge of my seat by the end. This one didn’t. I can say that this one has a way better story line. I connected with the characters better, it was more believable (until the very, very end) and it did have a “horror” aspect to it. These are things that the other book lacked. I think that the writing in this one also wasn’t as good either. I found times where it was like he said the same paragraph over and it was within a chapter or two of each other. I was forced to skim through the info and then re-read it because I couldn’t help but wonder if I had missed something and then I got pissed because I found out I didn’t.

I think that overall it was a good book. Maybe someone like King could have pulled it off better. Maybe the movie will be tons better than the book. But I have to say, wow, what a plot and story line.