Kathleen's comments (member since Oct 27, 2008)

Kathleen's comments from the Gigi's Company group.

bagel (During the week, I have a cinnamon-raisin bagel every morning. I cook a traditional breakfast on the weekend.)

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Big meal on Christmas: At noonish or in the evening

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Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men (Jane Jameson, Book 2) by Molly Harper is another wacky adventure for newly turned vampire Jane Jameson. Aided by Mating Rituals and Love Customs of the Were, Jane has been tapped to serve as maid of honor for her best friend, Zeb, and his werewolf fiancee, Jolene. There are strange going-ons in the hollow and someone seems to be trying to sabotage Jolene's Titanic themed dream wedding with artificial iceberg. Meanwhile, Jane's Grandma Ruthie, a serial widow with four late husbands, buries Grandpa Bob, her fiance of five years (who gets the Ruthie special funeral even though they weren't legally wed) and meets number six at the funeral. Jane is convinced that their is something off with number six and another mystery unfolds.

By the end, all mysteries are solved, and true love prevails. There is an abundance of interesting secondary characters including, once again, Jane's crazy relatives, and assorted living and dead Half Moon Hollow residents. Jane's relationship with Gabriel progress nicely, but Gabriel remains a man of mystery which sets up the third book, Nice Girls Don't Live Forever, to be published January 2010.

I liked the first book a little better than this book, but only by a slight margin. I am still giving this one five stars.

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Julia wrote: . . . what are some examples of Airport novels? (Besides Airport by Hailey.)"

From Wikipedia:

An airport novel is typically a fairly long but fast-paced novel of intrigue or adventure that is stereotypically found in the reading fare offered by airport newsstands for travellers to read in the rounds of sitting and waiting that constitute air travel.

Airport novels typically fall within a number of other fictional genres, including: thrillers, detective fiction, spy fiction, crime fiction, and historical romance.

Writers whose books have been described as airport novels include:

Peter Benchley, Dan Brown, Arthur Hailey, Robert Ludlum, Michael Crichton , Harlan Coben . . .

Julia wrote: "I suspect Canadiana is Robert J. Sawyer, Margaret Atwood, Farley Mowat, Pierre Berton, Robertson Davies, Kelley Armstrong, Tanya Huff, Michael Ondaatje, etc. Writers who are Canadian and write abou..."

I would concur and add Lynsay Sands (paranormal romance with strong humorous elements) and Jes Battis (urban fantasy) to that list of Canadian authors whose stories are set in Canada.

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