Sarah's comments

Sarah's comments from the Oly Reads group.

Note: Sarah is no longer a member of this group.

Dangerous Games
by Keri Arthur

What a great idea! I need to start a "could not finish" list too.

I see in that OlyBlog thread that shelves are being built in the basement of the BRAC advocacy center, so I assume that will be the public space too.

Don't know on that, not sure of location yet, will post if I find out.

Bread and Roses is organizing a street library for houseless folks, I think this is a great local cause. They could use donations of our used books.

There is a drop off place at Cafe Vita.

Story

Foreign Affairs
by Alison Lurie

About "The Secret", a great essay on how it is bogus can be found here: http://skepdic.com/lawofattraction.html

I read a lot of supernatural fantasy type fiction so you'd think I'd be into Harry Potter - but I'm not. Never made it all the way through even one of the books. I'm glad they apparently got kids into reading and I hope those kids keep reading. But I didn't enjoy them and also got frustrated with how badly they were edited. Often times it seemed they relied on mechanical spell check alone, no humans involved.

I also don't read books by two other luminaries in this field - Laurell K. Hamilton and Anne Rice. A few of Hamilton's books might be okay but she now bogs her stories down in long excuriating sex scenes that ultimately are sort of grim and boring. Often times they actually are rape scenes. I don't mind sex in books at all when well done, or at least not as the main course.

Anne Rice, eh. I dimly recall thinking Interview was okay and maybe one other after that, but otherwise I don't enjoy her books.

Kiss Of Darkness
by Heather Graham

Forests of the Heart
by Charles de Lint

New start:

"Trouble and Her Friends" by Melissa Scott

Hope everyone had and is having great holidays. Even though the snow was beautiful I am happy that we are back to good ol' rain.

An Ice Cold Grave
by Charlaine Harris

Broken by Kelley Armstrong (Alas, I can't think of a good pun for this one :) )

The Rest Falls Away: The Gardella Vampire Chronicles by Colleen Gleason

Not a very good book, in fact it (warning, bad pun in progress) it sucked.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel is very worth reading, Timberland library has several copies too.

I enjoyed both Maus books, also Blankets: An Illustrated Novel, and Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms to Watch Out for.

Thunderbird Falls
by C.E. Murphy

Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
by Gavin De Becker

listen think believe
yourself instincts are your guide
don't have to be nice

Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia
by Carmen Bin ladin

Inside the Kingdom, my life in Saudi Arabia by Carmen Bin Ladin

All the clothes and jewels
can never trade for freedom
think before you wed

Chill Factor - Weather Warden, Book 3 by Rachel Caine