What are you reading in August 2016?

[Jackie]

Colleen, are you going to copy the rest of the convo? There's like two posts that are missing.

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Short novella by Nora Roberts, Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan Langan and Mariann Willman in paperback. Finished 5 stars
This book contains four lovely stories of mythical lands and happily ever afters. From witches, sorcerers, curses, magic and romance. From forced marriages, roses forever put into ice, to a beautiful Phoenix. The stories take you away to far off lands and lets your imagination run wild. Although some stories were more powerful, better written and entertaining, I found it to be a wonderful collection and I can't wait to read the others in "Once Upon..." Great stories.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

Jackie wrote: "Colleen, are you going to copy the rest of the convo? There's like two posts that are missing."


I was waiting for you to add your parts. :D

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

Last night I finished The Outlaws of Sherwood. I'm not really sure how someone could take Robin Hood and make it boring, but McKinley managed it...


I started reading The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet this morning. Less than 10% in, but seems promising so far. (At the very least it seems readable, which is more than I could say for fucking McKinley... )

[Chris , cookie guilt]

colleen the fabulous fabulaphile wrote: "Last night I finished The Outlaws of Sherwood. I'm not really sure how someone could take Robin Hood and make it boring, but McKinley managed it...


I started reading [book:The Long ..."

More than Lawhead did? Wow. Impressive.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

Chris wrote: "More than Lawhead did? Wow. Impressive. "


Actually, I forgot about that one, because I bailed after, like, 10% through...

[Chris , cookie guilt]

I didn't make it a lot farther.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

I just read my review for Hood... and, yeah, actually they have a lot of the same problems. McKinley also went the "realism" root, sort of, and made Robin a reluctant hero who was a worry wart and not a very good archer...

So...

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Screw realism. If I wanted realism, I wouldn't read fantasy. ffs.

[Jackie]

I'm almost finished with Armada. Very "meh" about it. I loved Ready Player One, especially because of the use of 80's/90's pop culture references but with this one Cline went over the top. Every sentence has some kind of reference. It's so annoying and it doesn't make up for the re-hashed plot line.

[Thaddeus]

MrsJoseph, ha, I sometimes entirely agree (although archers 'firing' just sounds wrong).

I'm halfway through Suetonius' Twelve Caesars. Some of those chaps were very dodgy indeed.