Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Dairy Queen
by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Pages: 291
Date: June 4 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books
Series: Dairy Queen (first in series)

Review
Rating: 5.0 out of 5.0
Read: June 30 to July 1 2015

I know the book started off with me thinking "wow, this is really boring", but I kept reading. Because I'd seen others say they had felt the same way in the beginning then loved the book. So I kept reading. I'm not sure when it moved from "boring" to "this is really fun and interesting". But somewhere along the line, that occurred.

Most of the time I write something while reading, and then just post that as a review. Well, the only thing I wrote while reading was:
"Does it count as a chick lit book if the chick goes out for the football team? Does it count as lesbian fiction if the chick doesn't realize she's dating someone? Because D.J. just found out that Amber thought they were a couple. So. There's that."

This was a really funny, really interesting book. One of those that, if I'd stopped at about the 49% mark, I'd have thought was kind of boring. And . . . . something. Well, maybe not the 49% mark probably.

(everyone's a cow, eh? hmms.)

Casting Call by J.A. Armstrong

Casting Call
by J.A. Armstrong
Pages: 109
Date: June 29 2015
Publisher: Author
Series: Off Screen (5th in series)

Review
Rating: 4.0 out of 5.0
Read: July 1 2015

To be honest, the beginning was kind of boring. (I find myself beginning several reviews this way, heh). And, while it wasn't just an event that occurred between side characters that I can't reveal without spoiling, that event did raise the possibility of giving four stars. Then enough occurred "right" in the main Em/Addy story line for me to agree with myself and mark the story "4 stars". Though, just four. Not 3.8, not 4.2, and not 4.5.

I was excited to see another Armstrong story. Though I kinda wanted to see another By Design story before another Off Screen, though it was Off Screen's turn in the release cycle. I think. Which is vaguely humorous to myself considering that I started off the review for the first By Design story by noting how i liked the couple in that one less than the one in Off Screen.

No matter. I like both series. I'm happy to have a story in either. And, apparently, this specific series isn't over yet. "Intermission" is coming next at some point. Unless "Intermission" means, you know, intermission, then maybe it's a different series taking Off Screen's spot in the release rotation?