Exceedingly Mundane

I finished a really great library book the other day, “These Boots Weren’t Made for Walking” by Melody Carlson. This book is Christian chick-lit and I had seen it mentioned at someones blog a while back. While surfing my library’s listing online of new books, I saw that they were processing this one, so I immediately got on the reserve list for it. I could be wrong, but I think I was the first person to read this book after they got it in their system. Which, I thought was sorta cool 🙂

I really loved this book! This was my first book by Melody Carlson, but it won’t be my last. I thoroughly enjoyed it and really hated to see it end. It reminded me a lot of one I read recently by Kristin Billerbeck, “What A Girl Wants”, also Christian chick-lit, but I think I really liked this one better. I think it’s because this character was a little more relatable to me. She moved from the big city back to her small home town, and I think just that feel and flow of the small-town plot was more in line with what I like to read, whereas Ashley Stockingdale (in the Billerbeck book), lives and works in the Silicon Valley, big city life 🙂

Since I’m positively no good at devising my own synopsis of a book, I’m going to completely cheat and copy the back of the book for you here, to give you an idea of what it’s about:

Certain she’s paid her corporate dues, thirty one-year-old Cassidy Cantrell struts through the office in her chic Valentino boots to turn in her latest project. She’s confident she’ll make a spectacular impression and seal the deal on her long-anticipated promotion at the Seattle marketing firm. But when reality tromps over her expectations, Cassie quickly realizes those same stylish boots are all wrong for pounding the pavement in search of a new job – or for kicking her cheating ex-boyfriend out of her life.

Her self-esteem in tatters, Cassie limps back to her ski resort hometown – to find her rebounding-from-divorce mother transformed into a gorgeous fifty-something babe whose thriving social life only accentuates the dismal shape of Cassie’s own romantic prospects. What will it take for Cassie to jump back into life and regain her stride?

Maybe this book was just what I was in the mood for, but it really hit the spot for me. Good book, good characters, one I really hated to see end. If you like Christian fiction, I think you’d enjoy this one.

For the record, I’ve read 62 books so far this year, with a total of 18,595 pages. Up next is the second in the Firstborn series by Karen Kingsbury (“Forgiven“), and after that, I have a stack of books I got at the library yesterday. I loaded them in my sidebar, but the titles are: Twelve Sharp, The Art of Mending, This Pen for Hire, Marley and Me and The Body in the Moonlight. Yeah for new books to read 😀