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[quote=Anonymous]I usually post here after every book I finish, but I have been super busy  the last several weeks.
So, here are the audiobooks I have listened to in February and March:

"The Book Club Hotel" by Sarah Morgan.   This was about 3 women who have been best friends since they met in college 20 years earlier.  They get together for one week each year to discuss whatever book they have picked out to read, and just visit with each other.  For this particular annual get-together, they gather at a hotel in Vermont in December.  
I thought it was sappy and predictable and sweet and I enjoyed it throughout.  I had not read anything by this author before, but this book was like a Debbie Macomber book.

Next was "The Bright Side of Disaster" by Katherine Center. This was about a woman living with her fiance.  She is 9 months pregnant when he leaves to run an errand and doesn't come back until the baby is 6 months old.  While he was gone, she had become friendly with a guy who is remodeling a house down the street from her.    It was your basic romance novel.  I liked it.

Then I listened to "The Wild Robot".  This is a kids book and I am not a kid but I kept seeing it as a popular book available on Libby from my library and I wondered what it was about.  It is about a robot that was built to work in a factory but it fell off a container ship and floated in the ocean until it landed on an island full of animals.  The animals jumped on it and activated it.  The robot became friends with all the animals.  I thought the book was fun and I look forward to checking out the sequels.

Then I listened to "Louisiana Lucky".  This was about 3 sisters who buy 3 lottery tickets every week.  They win $200 million and spend much of their money frivolously.  I thought the book was basic but I liked it.

Yesterday I finished listening to "The Spoon Stealer".  This was about a woman who was born in 1894 in Nova Scotia Canada.  When her brother is wounded in Europe during WW I she goes to England to find him and ends up staying in England for about 5 years.  Then she goes back home to the family farm in Nova Scotia for 10 years, then moves back to England for the rest of her life.  When she is in her 70's, she takes a class on writing and decides to write her memoirs.   I liked the book but found it slow much of the time.  It seems to me that a lot of British books are in no hurry to get the story done and over with compared to American books.

I also listened to 2 more books in the series about a caterer in Colorado who helps solve murders.  There is only one more book in the series.

Today I started listening to a book that was recommended by someone here at the DCUM book club about a year ago.  It is called "The Bookshop on the Corner" by Jenny Colgan.  The book is about a 29 year old woman who was a librarian in Birmingham England.  Her small library branch is being shut down and she is out of a job.  She boxes up many of the books from the library and brings them home.  She ends up buying an old delivery van, moving to Scotland and operating  a mobile book store there.    
I am about  1/3 of the way through the book and enjoying it immensely.  I would like to say thank you to the person who recommended it.

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