Audra Jennings

Don't you hate it when one of your favorite authors comes out with a new book, then it doesn't live up to expectations?  I was looking forward to Robert Whitlow's latest, The Living Room (published by Thomas Nelson) as I have read all of his books. I'm not going to say I have loved every one (I still get steamed thinking about the ending of Jimmy ), but I've liked them or I wouldn't have read everything he's written. His last one, The Choice , was his best. Look up my review on that one . Like I always tell reviewers though, tell what you didn't like because what you didn't like might be what someone else would enjoy. Stick with me because I'm going to tell you why I wasn't fond of The Living Room because I think you'll actually be quite fascinated by it. About the book :  Amy Clarke’s dreams are coming true—and that’s the problem. Legal secretary by day, romance novelist by night, Amy Clarke lives with a precious secret. For ...

It probably started off with the question, "have you read any good books lately?" More likely it was, "are you working on any good books?" It seems like the only question my Grandmother really asks me. At least anything that really has anything to do with me that doesn't end up being a gossipy kind of thing. There's another similar question about authors or anything neat or something. It's work related though. After 10 years, really, that's all you can focus on, what I'm working on? Do you ask anyone else about their job? It may sound innocent enough, but it seems to be more of a way of impressing her book club. If you actually know me, or have heard/read some of my stories below, you know why this is such an ordeal in my mind. Anyway. A few months ago, we did a blog tour for Robert Whitlow's The Choice . I actually had two copies of it because I had requested it from the publisher for review before I found out we were doing a blog to...

Click here to enter! If you've read my blog before, you've read a few reviews of books by Robert Whitlow. You've also heard me say before that I don't ask for a lot of books because I don't have time to commit to reviews on a schedule. And part of the books I read I don't post reviews of because I forget or get busy or whatever.  And you should also look at my office. I mean my library. And now I have a Kindle (as of this week!) and am quickly accumulating free books on it that I've gotten off of the Inspired Reads website. (Check out Inspired Reads and Vessel Project  for free e-books without "must review" strings.) Based on all our blog tours right now, you'll be getting plenty of posts on new books and CONTESTS in the next couple of weeks. There are a lot of new books hitting shelves if you are looking for some great recommendations. Here I am rambling on to say that I set a reminder on my computer to pop up on the morning Book S...

For lack of anything else on TV paired with just the right teasers, I decided to give Fox's new TV shows a try last night. Surely  Take Me Out and  The Choice will not last. In a world where shows like The Firm and Harry's Law get cancelled for low ratings I pray that the population of America does not watch such stupidity. Let's start with Take Me Out . Any show with George Lopez should probably be off my list. Even the gutter-minded contestants of the show didn't seem to get the terribly lame attempts filth-laden innuendo he was trying to tell for laughs. As for 30 beautiful women, they were all made up with big hair, but some of them were rather strange looking. The idea is that these 30 women are looking for their dream man. They're all lined up with these lit podiums in front of them. When each decides that the guy is not for them, they hit a button and their light goes out. The guy comes down to the stage from the "Elevator of Love" to a song o...