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<![CDATA[Kristy added 'The Secret History of the Pink Carnation']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20927367
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (Pink Carnation, #1)
byLauren Willig bookshelves: bookiown,
currently-reading,
victorian
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<![CDATA[Kristy added 'The Darcys Give a Ball: A Gentle Joke, Jane Austen Style']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72068562
to: The Darcys Give a Ball: A Gentle Joke, Jane Austen Style (Paperback)byElizabeth Newark bookshelves: bookiown,
janeaustenrelated,
on-paperbackswap-com,
read-in-2009
Cute sequel to Pride and Prejudice! It takes place 25 years after Mr. and Mrs. Darcy's marriage and their children are the ones making waves. Children from all Jane Austen's novels are included as well! It was confusing to try to remember who was who's child. References to other beloved couples were made as well. that was enjoyable! The focus seems to be on the offspring but the end seemed to be lacking. The author leaves their fates up in the air, maybe because there might be a sequel? I'll have to look into that. The end of the short novel focuses mostly on Charlotte Lucas Collins and her future.
This was a quick read. Skip it if you're looking for more of a story to sink your teeth into. But this is a light hearted one.
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<![CDATA[Kristy added 'Wednesday Night Witches']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49913220
to: Wednesday Night Witches (Paperback)byLee Nichols bookshelves: bookiown,
on-paperbackswap-com,
read-in-2009,
reddressink
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<![CDATA[Kristy added 'My Sister's Keeper']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21552140
to: My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)byJodi Picoult bookshelves: bookiown,
on-paperbackswap-com,
read-in-2009
I didn't finish this one, so I'm giving myself an incomplete. I got to page 84 before I decided I can't read this anymore. I'm giving it four stars because I liked what I read. So why did I stop reading? Because the story hit too close to home with me. When I was 17, I got sick. I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, or ALL for short. Reading Sara's flashbacks to when Kate got sick, took me back to my own treatment and how my own mom dealt with it. I was reading some of that on my lunch break at work and damn near starting crying!
Reading for me is an escape. Time to get lost in someone else world. This book didn't allow me to escape. It brought back my past, something I don't like thinking about every day. I'm healthy now and have been for years, but some things I haven't dealt with and maybe it's better that way. It allows me to move on with me life and be as normal as I can be.
I wanted to read this book because of Anna's decision to fight against her family for her own rights to her own body. I plan on reading more of Jodi Picoult's books, just not this one. I also wanted to read the book before I saw the movie. I think I'll just watch the movie instead.
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<![CDATA[Kristy added 'Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44115892
to: Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict (Paperback)byLaurie Viera Rigler bookshelves: janeaustenrelated,
read-in-2009
I would have given this one four stars, but the ending left me unsatisfied. But some twist of fate, 21st century Courtney Stone wakes up in the life of Jane Mansfield, 30 something spinster in Jane Austen's time. She tries to say she's not Jane, but her "mother" threatens her with an asylum, "Jane" gives up that real quick. I loved how the time is not romanticized and it tries to show how unsanitary things really were back then. Of course there are Jane Austen references everywhere...what they read and characters in the story. I liked how she worked out things from the 21st century life, by working things out where she was.
Some things weren't cleared up completely for me. The whole time travel bit was never fully explained. I guess we're supposed to believe it was some kind of planets align and the space time continuum ripped open, allowing the two women to change lives. And where was the real Jane? Never said. And I wished there was more of an epilogue of both women, not just the one.