Through the Woods was excellent. Creepy but not overly scary and not silly, as kids’ scary stories sometimes are.
I loved, loved, loved, The Shadow Hero and I didn’t expect to. The afterword, with info about the 1940s Green Turtle just made it even better.
To This Day: For the Bullied and the Beautiful was very well done. Great illustrations, great stories.
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I generally like Adriana Trigiani but I had some issues with All the Stars In Heaven. I was just plain troubled by the love story between Loretta Young and Clark Gable. It was… too much, considering odds are high that it wasn’t anything remotely like that (based on stories told after their deaths.)
I liked Alda and Luca. I’d have rather had that story with fake movie stars. Sigh.
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I just realized I never did the monthly update post for last month. Probably because it was a slightly forgettable month. Just 14 books, total. Bah humbug
2 were cybils
1 was an auidobook
1 was a Kindle book
1 was YA
6 were non-fiction (and two of those were cookbooks.)
Ho hum.
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Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante is one of my favorite Maggie Hope novels. I love Maggie in the US! I’m a little worried about the next book, though — Maggie’s sister, her mother, her father, it’s all a mess.
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I read The Royal We because I read an article that said Lauren Graham had bought the rights to the book. That interested me so I figured I’d read before she turned it into a movie.
It was good. I’m surprised at how much I enjoyed it because girl meets prince is not really my thing. Read it. You’ll enjoy it.
Shadow Scales is the sequel to Seraphina, which we listened to last year on audio (it was on the cybils shortlist.)
It was a very long book on audio but also a very good one. Dragons and half-dragons and lesbian queens and fun stuff like that. I have enjoyed both books but TW particularly likes them. I hope there’s a third book.
Diana Nyad is… badass. That’s just all there is to it. Find a Way was interesting. I enjoyed it, after following her attempts so closely. Also, she’s badass. Sheesh.
After seeing this book talked about in a lot of places, I finally managed to read Kitchens of the Great Midwest. And, I’m not sure how I feel about it.
I almost stopped reading after the Sweet Pepper Jelly chapter, but I stuck with it… and then I mostly enjoyed it … and then I was annoyed with it all over again.
Have you read it? What did you think of it?
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Weird. I thought I blogged these weeks ago, but apparently not. Oh well, it will pad my November numbers since my October numbers didn’t need padding. 😉
Healthy Happy Vegan was ok. I didn’t love it. I don’t think there’s any recipe in there that I was dying to make.
Thug Kitchen… As expected, I love this cookbook. Which is probably why I love their site. Or maybe it’s the other way around? Whatever. I have reserved their party book from the library and plan to make all of the vegan things.
I finally finished No Wind of Blame, which I started on Kindle during the October #readathon. I love Georgette Heyer and this was a fun read, though I really feel like I might have read it before. It all felt familiar to me.