Heather's comments
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Heather's comments from the You'll love this one...!! A book club & more group.
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I have always had a thing for Harry Potter...yah yah....
Hi folks....I know it's been a while, but ya know....life gets away from you and I'm trying to get a promotion @ work right now..so no time to screw around here at work. I've missed ya'll though.
I am just now starting the meaning of night by Michael Cox. Hopefully it will be good, cause it's really long.
I just finished reading the No 1 Ladies' Detective agency and I really liked it. It was really cute. Before that I read The somnambulist which was good up until the odd narrator shift towards the end. Lets see, and before that I read Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen, which was REALLY good.
Fi - Nice to see that you are still putting me to shame, although I am up to 114 for the year I think...almost beat last year's book count, woot.
Beth - I absolutely love love love Lorna Landvik. I have everything by her. I fully recommend Angry Housewife Eating Bon Bons
Beth - I absolutely love love love Lorna Landvik. I have everything by her. I fully recommend Angry Housewife Eating Bon Bons
No worries about that yorky! I have three shelves of to reads. My goal by the end of the year is to get to 2 shelves, but who knows if that will actually happen.
I just finished the 19th Wife. Quite good and quite insightful but sometimes the interplay between the historical parts and the modern day story just didn't work for me and I found some of the historical parts fairly preachy and boring. meh, 4*
I have decided to start re-reading the Harry Potter series again since it has been about 2 years since my last run through. I have been finding that I miss Harry and the gang, and the movie didn't really hit my HP fix right. Mad love as always though.
Just finished Weaveworld. It was fantastic, though I am not sure it would be everyone's cup of tea.
I am now going to start The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff. It seemed like a completely different book than what I just read so I thought it would be fun to have the complete change. We'll see though.
I am glad you are enjoying it Jaime! The last half be prepared to fly through it! I just seemed to anyway from the middle to the end. I agree, the narrator is a "bit" on the harshly icky side to begin with, but you'll get used to it and he does get better, promise!
I finished the Gargoyle. I really enjoyed it! 4*, I would have given it 4 1/2 but no half stars ya know.
I just started in on Weaveworld by Clive Barker last night. One of my best friends swears by this book and says she absolutely loves it, so I thought I would give it a try. It's pretty good so far.
John - I am about 118 pages into the Gargoyle right now, and I completely agree. I am finding both stories really interesting and a couple of the smaller stories within are heartbreakingly beautiful, especially the black plague story. Call me a sucker I guess, but I am loving this book, and I am starting to like the main character a bit more. He was really hard to like earlier on.
Brave New world isn't a kids book...or did you mean Mortal Engines? actually books set in a the future wouldn't be bad. I mean there are tons of books to choose from. Although, we did just do dystopian novels like 3 or 4 months ago, which are generally set in the future.
Ahh! Maybe that's why I absolutely thoroughly disliked wuthering Heights! I just read it earlier this year for the first time and I am not in my teens any longer. I just thought it was horrid drivel and I sincerely wanted to smack all of the characters and tell them to grow up! Now thinking back though, it reminds me rather of Twilight. Not a great book, but perhaps the teens will like it. sorry if this ruffles anyone's feathers.
Bernard - I liked the Historian and I thought for the most part it was a page turner, however, there are some dry parts and some people will completely disagree. and think that the book was terrible. Let me know what you think when you are done!
I finished the cat's Pajamas yesterday. 5* by the way. I am ashamed to admit it but it was the first thing I have ever read by Ray Bradbury and I just thought it was phenomenal. I will have to read more.
based on the fact that so many of my fellow YLTO bookies are reading the Gargoyle, I thought I would read it too. I am about 70 pages into it and really enjoying it so far, but I must say, I really hope the narrator becomes a changed man at the end because he's a real jerk right now!
short stories.
Donna - I thoroughly enjoyed both of the books you just mentioned. I'm glad you liked Guernsey & I hope you will like Mistress of the art of Death. The second in the series was good but not as good, but apparently the 3rd in the series is really good according to someone in the group (can't remember who right now though)
I gave up on Sense and Sensibility. I just can't deal with the language w/ everything that's going on right now. So I started reading The Cat's Pajamas by Ray Bradbury.
Finished The Zookeeper's Wife and now reading Sense and Sensibility cause it was the next one in the alphabet on my TBR shelf.
I read this a while back and as "classics" go, I actually enjoyed this enough to then read Little Men. I have yet to read Jo's Boys, but meh, I sort of lost interest in Louisa May Alcott after I read two of her books nearly back to back.
Aug 05, 2009 12:48PM
I did find the grammar issues a bit frustrating when I read it a few months ago. It took me a good 100 or so pages to finally get into the groove of things. Once I got over that, I really liked it.
Finished Lord of the Vampires. It was a good ending to the series. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I am now starting on The Zookeeper's Wife because it was the first title on my bookshelf. (I keep them in alpha order by author's last name.)
Finished the Children of the Vampire by Jeanne Kalogrides and now going to start in on the last in the series Lord of the Vampires...(kinda like lord of the dance but with fangs)
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