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<![CDATA[Laura added 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45386956
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Paperback)
bySeth Grahame-Smith bookshelves: currently-reading
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<![CDATA[Laura added 'House of Many Shadows']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76860049
to: House of Many Shadows (Mass Market Paperback)byBarbara Michaels
I wish I had liked this novel better because a friend lent it to me.
It was a quick read but the characters were very two dimensional and I never felt for their plight (seeing strange things in an old house and a creepy ex-tenant).
There were at least two major grammatical errors that jumped out at me. Wrong verb tenses and the like also irked me.
This novel was written in the 70s, so maybe that explains it.
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<![CDATA[Laura recommended the book
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society to
Sari]]>
http://www.goodreads.com/book/recommendation/659115
Laura
recommended the book
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
to Sari
There are at least 3 scenes where animals suffer and I skipped over the awfulness. If the rest of the book wasn't so engrossing, I would have stopped reading at the first one.
The novel almost put me off at the get-go due to its format: correspondence between all the characters. But it was done so skillfully that I kept going. I'm glad I did.
This was a side of WWII that I had no idea about (granted, I didn't know much to begin with).
The characters on Guernsey Island are fascinating, lovable, and entertaining. The drama is enticing.
This novel made me want to visit Guernsey. Of course it can't be like the novel portrays it, but it sure sounded lovely.
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<![CDATA[Laura added 'Fortune and Fate']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37757835
to: Fortune and Fate (Twelve Houses, #5)bySharon Shinn
Sharon Shinn is one of my favorite authors and I love the other novels in the Thirteenth House series. This one, however, did not pique my interest as much.
The main character is likable, but the events that happen in this novel are slow and take a long time to build to something exciting. Even the fight scenes felt stilted and slow and didn't make me feel a part of the action.
I did enjoy the budding relationship between Wen and her employer. It was those intentionally deliberate, detailed scenes that made this book readable.
Shinn is a great writer but even great writers can't be 100% all the time.
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<![CDATA[Laura added 'This Charming Man']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75319745
to: This Charming Man (Hardcover)byMarian Keyes
Marian Keyes is one of my favorite authors. She writes novels that probably are called "chick lit" but are so well done and include weighty topics like drug and domestic abuse (like this novel) that calling her books by that term is annoying.
Plus, she's hilarious. I know, sounds weird for novels with those types of content, but Keyes does it excellently. I can't think of one of her novels that hasn't made me laugh out loud.
This novel is one of the really good ones. Watermelon is fantastic, too. Somehow Keyes knows just how to get the feelings we all feel down perfectly.
I just wish she would write faster so I can keep reading her stuff.
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<![CDATA[Laura added 'Ghost Story']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76367285
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
byPeter Straub bookshelves: to-read
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<![CDATA[Laura added 'Weird Words']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74860363
Weird Words (Paperback)
byI. Berent bookshelves: to-read
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<![CDATA[Laura added 'Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words: Gathered from Numerous and Diverse Authoritative Sources']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74860342
Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words: Gathered from Numerous and Diverse Authoritative Sources (Paperback)
byJosefa Heifetz Byrne bookshelves: to-read
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<![CDATA[Laura added 'The Moon and the Sun']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74857081
to: The Moon and the Sun (Hardcover)byVonda N. McIntyre
I found this oldie but goody in my bookshelves. I was waiting for some library books to come in and read this in the interim. It is a fantastic alternate history of Louis XIV's court with sea monsters and the Pope!
There's a reason this won a Nebula award. It's that good.
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