30's not so bad...

  Well I officially turned 30 on the 13th of this month and its not been as bad as I thought it would be. I mean age is just a number. I did get the chance to see Miranda Lambert in concert at the BOK Center, I won two tickets off of Facebook. It was a great show, she was awesome!
  Then later that week we took the boys to Branson for Spring Break. It was fun, cold and rainy but still fun.
  While in Branson I got to meet my pen pal of 22 years for the first time. When I was in the 3rd grade we set off drug free balloons at the football field and mine traveled to Forsyth Missouri. The  lady that picked it up thought it was trash until she looked at it a little closer and saw that it had a name and address on it. She sent me a letter and from there we started writing letters back and forth, we moved on to emails and now we Facebook each other.
  I joined a few book clubs on Facebook and now I have an even bigger TBR pile going on. I also participated in a book exchange, I sent my books off yesterday to a girl in Florida, hope she likes them. I know I did. I also bought a book from a lady on there  The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude. I am excited to read this book, I have wanted it for a while now.
  I did not finish Afterwards by Rosemund Lupton, I couldn't get in to it at all. I really enjoyed Sisters by her so I was kind of let down that I couldn't read it.
  I recently finished In The Woods by Tana French.As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and his partner  Cassie find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past. I really hoped I would like this book since there are others that follow not about the same storyline but with the characters. Sadly though I did not like this book at all. I felt that it took me entirely too long to read; I had to renew my library books just so that I could finish it and the other one that I have out. This book left me with more questions than answers by the time that I read the last page. I posted about it on one of the groups on Facebook and I was glad to see that I wasn't the only one that didn't like it. I mean I felt cheated by the ending not answering any questions that you start to form in your head while reading. Now that I have read this book and knowing how it ends I can not bring myself to read the other books in the series.
  I started the third book in the Sookie Stackhouse series, I am still loving this series. I hope to finish it soon that way I can read The May Queen Murders and then go back to the library to start knocking out my TBR pile.