I finished Captivate a few days ago and forgot to blog it. I’d kind of like to forget the book in general because that is SO not the way the storyline was supposed to go! And the ending… cliffhanger hell. I suppose that’s the way to get teens to come back for more. But sheesh.

Pixies. Weres. Valkyrie. Elves.

Next book, we’ll throw some Gods into the mix and we’ll finish this thing, right? Right????

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I really wanted to read The Knife of Never Letting Go – but I couldn’t do it. I hated the boy from the very first page – and I had high hopes that I’d like him better once he met the girl but TW said it gets worse. I just couldn’t bring myself to read it at all last week during my vacation. So – I took it back to the library, along with its sequel. I just couldn’t read it.

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First – Nemi. Love it. I want the whole series. A girl with an attitude. A lot of attitude.

Next – The Grave Robber’s Daughter. Short, easy to read, just creepy enough to be fun.

Then – The Chuckling Whatsit (author also write The Grave Robber’s Daughter). This one was also excellent, but a little long. At one point I felt like I just wanted to skip to the end but I stuck with it and was glad I did.

Last – The Man Who Grew Young. Why do I feel like I’ve already read this? That’s what I kept thinking, all the way through. Familiar. Interesting but… it doesn’t quite work for me.

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How the heck did I miss M is for Magic? I mean I know I’m not the biggest Gaiman fan in the world (I like him but I don’t go crazy or anything) but I do tend to read new releases by “big” children’s fiction and YA fiction authors pretty quickly. Still, I missed it and was glad I happened to see it on the YA shelf the other day. Great short stories. I did indeed laugh out loud several times. And I learned what a “gonk” is, so that was cool, too.  That’s what I like about Gaiman, I always learn something new while being entertained.

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I like Kathy Reichs’ books on audio but we missed a few and in 206 Bones I found myself wishing I had read more about the Tempe and Ryan’s break-up. So, I reserved another book on audio, somewhere in between Break No Bones and 206 Bones so I could feel caught up.

Anyway, this one was good – typical Tempe adventures. Nice little side-trip to Chicagoland, which was fun in that “we live here” sort of way. Which is nice, since we don’t really like living here, ya know? And boy does Reichs like her similes.

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We bought What to Wear to See the Pope ages ago, at the Gainesville Friends of the Library Sale, I think. When I put it on my From the Stacks (by Color) Challenge, I didn’t realize it was short stories. I sighed in frustration during the first story because I really wasn’t in the mood for short stories – and I was afraid I was just going to slog my way through it and hate it. Luckily, all of the stories were fun – and interesting and it wasn’t a slog at all.

I wonder if TW would let us rename the #prairiedogs after Saints… that would be awesome.

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I wasn’t going to read My Name is Mary Sutter. TW said it was really good but still… my TBR list is long… and I hadn’t really heard anything about the book. But, when I realized I couldn’t extend the checkout period because the book has holds, I thought maybe it was something I should really read – it’s very rare that I can’t extend a checkout period at my library due to holds on a book. So, I started reading it… and could not put it down. I read until after midnight last night and if it had been a Friday or Saturday,  I’d have just read it straight through.

I wasn’t thrilled with the Mary/Jenny/Thomas triangle – that felt a little too Little Women-like for me, but it ended up working out just fine. Lots of unhappy endings, which is as it should be about a novel set in the Civil War period. Poor Dorothea Dix gets the shaft in this story, but that works too.

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