Books I just finished reading.

Hi. Well it's finally time for me to tell you about some books I've been reading lately.  I have discovered a new author, new to me any way.  Lisa Wingate is who I have been reading lately.  I just finished both "Talk of the Town" and the second book "Word Gets Around."  I have to  admit though, I did enjoy "Word Gets  Around " more than "Talk of the Town."  I was having a little bit of trouble getting into "Talk of the Town" for some reason. Maybe because my life got crazy and I kept getting interrupted while trying to read it.  That's what happens when you have three little kids right?  

Both books are set in Daily, Texas and involve some kind of media job involved with them.  "Talk of the Town" is about an engaged woman, Mandalay, who works at American Megastar, which happens to be a lot like American Idol.  She has the job of coming to Daily, Texas to set up a surprise concert for one of the top five American Megastar finalists, Amber, left on the show.  It's supposed to be this big secret but you soon find out that everyone in town already knows what's going on.  While there Mandalay meets a man, surprise! Things start to get crazy when the paparazzi arrive and pretty much take over the town.  The book  has some funny parts where Mandalay has to figure out how to get Amber into town and to the concert unnoticed.  It was a good book overall. But like I said, it either lacked something or I just got interrupted too many times to hold my attention through the whole book.

Now on the other hand, "Word Gets Around" I really liked! But I did get to concentrate on this book more than the last.  This book centers around a the same characters that were in the last book, which I appreciated a lot!  I love when a book talks about someone and you know who they are. You feel like you've built up a history with that character.  In this book it also features  Amber but it focuses more on the actor, Justin Shay, that she is trying to help work out some issues and the actor's writer, Nate Heath. Okay.  Pretty much this book centers on Nate and a horse trainer,Lauren, more than anything else. The actor is trying to get Justin Shay out of his self pity moods that he always seems to be in lately and get a big movie deal signed with a very well known director.  Justin Shay has got all of the town's people so invested in the movie deal that if Nate and Lauren can't work together to make it actually happen a lot of people stand to lose everything they've worked so hard to achieve.   Throughout the book both Nate and Lauren become attracted to each other but they first have to work through issues of their own before they can try to be together. 

I liked this book.  It, like "Talk of the Town" had some funny parts.  Throughout both books the author, Lisa Wingate, adds insightful advice about how to grow in Christ and to get closer to God.  She doesn't yell the message at you but adds it in subtle analogies, like the Pastor's message in "Word Gets Around."  I think you'll enjoy both of these books. They are both worth making time to read.