A Cedar Cove Christmas

I just finished my Christmas book, A Cedar Cove Christmas by Debbie Macomber. (I know, it's a little late but I had to slip in The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch so that we could discuss it for book club last week.) I really liked this book and it was an easy read, although there were moments that I kept telling myself that it was too ironic and simplistic. It was a modern story that followed so closely to the birth of Jesus and at first, I liked that a lot. Then, as I read through more and more, it got a little annoying. But I found myself liking it again close to the end and I really liked the ending.

The book is about a young woman named Mary Jo who finds herself pregnant and the father is a liar who has lied one to many times. He can't be found and this makes Mary Jo's three older brothers furious! They want to set everything right and make the man, David, pay for his mistake and do the honorable thing. They want to confront him and his family and Mary Jo is worried what they might do. She doesn't want to marry the man now and that's what is on her brothers' minds. So just two weeks from her due date, she sets off for Cedar Cove in the middle of the night to talk to David and that's where the story gets really interesting.

I'm currently reading From Promise to Power by David Mendell about Obama before and after the campaign and then I'll be reading Through the Storm by Lynne Spears.

The next book club book is Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner. It sounds really interesting and I look forward to reading it. It's a shame that my friend Belinda (who chose the book) didn't choose In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner. That book has been on my night stand for about three months now!