30 Posts in 30 Days - Day Thirteen

Master List
Day 1 - your favorite song
Day 2 - your favorite movie
Day 3 - your favorite television program
Day 4 - your favorite book
Day 5 - your favorite quote
Day 6 - 20 of your favorite things
Day 7 - a photo that makes you happy
Day 8 - a photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 9 - a photo you took
Day 10 - a photo taken over 10 years ago of you
Day 11 - a photo of you recently
Day 12 - something you are OCD about
Day 13 - a fictional book
Day 14 - a non-fictional book
Day 15 - your dream house
Day 16 - a song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 - an art piece (drawing, sculpture, painting, etc)
Day 18 - my wedding/future wedding/past wedding
Day 19 - a talent of yours
Day 20 - a hobby of yours
Day 21 - a recipe
Day 22 - a website
Day 23 - a youtube video
Day 24 - where you live
Day 25 - your day, in great detail
Day 26 - your week, in great detail
Day 27 - your worst habit
Day 28 - what's in your handbag/purse
Day 29 - hopes, dreams, and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 - a dream for the future

I guess for me this one is kind of easy.  Since I covered I Love You My Bunnies on day four I can cover one of my favorite writers with this one.  I love James Patterson - - Well at least the writer James Patterson used to be.  Lately I am not so thriller with his books.  He had turned into a publishing machine, which for some might be okay, but for me I feel his books lack the quality they once had.  He's also taken to using guest writers on his books.  Yet he's kind of like the boyfriend that you break up with and get back together with time and time again.  I have read a few books that after I finished I swore I was done, but then a new Alex Cross book comes out and I just have to read it.  Admittedly I have not had much time for reading lately, but I am hoping that now that Jack is 18-months-old I will have a little time to catch up on the dozens of books I have collecting a healthy layer of dust.  He can play cars, or watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse while Mommy reads (nice wish any way).

If you have not read the Alex Cross series by James Patterson and you are a mystery/crime fan, I would suggest them.  If you have only seen the two Morgan Freeman movies, don't judge the books by them.  While they are good movies and I love Morgan Freeman, the movies do not represent the books in anything other than title and character names.  There is so much cut out they barely resemble the books. 

There is one book, not just in this series, but in all the books that I have read that has caught me off guard.  There is one sentence at the end of one book that left me in utter disbelief.  So much so that I had to read it, then re-read it, then go ask my mom (also a James Patterson fan) if I had read it correctly, and then, just to make sure I didn't miss something I re-read the whole book.  Roses are Red, is the sixth book in the Alex Cross series.  And, by far, it contains one of the most shocking revelations in a book I have read to date - and no, I have not made it through all fifteen books in the Alex Cross series, I am only around book nine or ten.  Maybe that's one of the reasons I keep going back to James Patterson, he may not be the best boyfriend author at times, but he did have that one fantastic moment where he did something I just cannot forget and no other boyfriend author has topped since.

P.S. I should probably mention that just reading this one book alone will not give you the same surprise.  You really need to read the books before it so that you know more about Alex and the other characters and what they have been through.