Happy Birthday Morelli!

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Joe, Happy Birthday to you! Now everybody, let's eat tasty cakes!

Joe Morelli is indeed a book character, but for those of you who are like me and have several parasocial relationships (thinking characters from television shows, movies or books are real), then join with me in celebrating Joe's birthday!

The book series that he graces the pages of is the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. The book series is based out of New Jersey and involves a girl who decides to become a bounty hunter. She finds herself in the strangest positions and happens to blow up way too many cars to count. Joe is one of the guys who pulls on Stephanie's heart strings, but there's another guy by the name of Ranger that pulls another set. He is your typical bad boy in black. But Joe is no good boy either. Joe is bad gone kinda good. You see, he's now a cop, but still knows how to enjoy life.

One for the Money is the name of the first book in the series and it is actually going to be a movie starring Katherine Heigl. The movie will be hitting the big screen in the summer of 2011, that's what I hear anyway!

My mom is the one who got me hooked. She had asked me for years to read it and I finally gave in and zipped through the books in about one month. You see, there are 16 published and another one on the way. That does not even include the in-between novels, which of course I read also.

I found that Janet Evanovich has a website, so of course I joined it and I ran across bookplates. I honestly did not even know what they were. She does signings sometimes, but never around me. For those fans that cannot get to her signings, she is nice enough that if you send her a self addressed and stamped envelope, then she will send you a signed bookplate! I did that and I was so happy when I got mine!

Here is her website: http://www.evanovich.com/

I highly recommend that you READ THESE BOOKS! They are funny, romantic, adventurous, scary and any other genre that you can think of! You will not be disappointed!

I have to rate this book series as my second favorite ever. Harry Potter can never be replaced, but this one sure does come close!