Debby's Teaser: Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

Hannah Swenson's life is going well. Her cookie shop, The Cookie Jar, is successful, and she's content living a single life with her cat as company. But then she finds her delivery driver from the local dairy murdered behind her store. Assisting her brother-in-law, she starts investigating. But everyone seems to have an alibi and no motive. This is the first in a series of books about Hannah Swenson. She always finds a body and then tries to solve the mystery. Each book also has several yummy recipes included.

Our New Read

Our new read for this month is Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman. Here's a little teaser about what the book is about:

Twelve-year-old CeeCee is in trouble. For years she’s been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille— the crown-wearing, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town. Though it’s 1967 and they live in Ohio, Camille believes it’s 1951 and she’s just been crowned the Vidalia Onion Queen of Georgia.

The day CeeCee discovers Camille in the front yard wearing a tattered prom dress and tiara as she blows kisses to passing motorists, she knows her mother has completely flipped. When tragedy strikes, Tootie Caldwell, a previously unknown great-aunt comes to CeeCee’s rescue and whisks her away to Savannah. Within hours of her arrival, CeeCee is catapulted into a perfumed world of prosperity and Southern eccentricities—a world that appears to be run entirely by women.

Sound interesting? I think so. So grab a copy from the library or a friend, or if you think this might be a book you'd like to purchase you can find it on Amazon for $6. Happy reading!

This Time Together - Teaser by Debby

I remember watching the Carol Burnett show when I was younger. We watched it every week. Carol always had a question and answer session with her audience to start the show. This book is a collection of short stories about her life. It was a quick read. There are numerous photos in the book from her shows too.

" I figured I had to stand out more, which meant a special audition dress. I couldn't afford more than $5, so I talked four other girls at the club into pitching in $5 a piece so we could buy a "community dress." With $25 in hand, we trotted off to Bloomingdales, to find THE dress that would fit us all. No easy task, because we weren't all built the same by any means.
We knew that to stand out in an audition the dress should be a bright color. It had to have long sleeves to cover skinny, plump, and average arms. It had to have a full skirt to hide any wide behinds. The material had to have a little give to accommodate each of us in the waistline. Luckily, we were all pretty close in that department."

This Time Together by Carol Burnett page 25