January 2010

Nancy Drew – The Secret of the Old Clock

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Alrighty, I started with the first book in the series and I really want to read them in order – which is messed up since I don’t seem to own numbers 2 and 3d. It still takes me all of about two hours to read a Nancy Drew, which is about what it took me when I was a kid.

It was amusing to re-visit Nancy after all these years. They didn’t have cell phones back then, ya know. Nancy had to drive to the police station (actually, she visited a couple of different police stations) which I found interesting… do you know where your closest police station is? Or where several police stations are? Because errr I’m not really sure I do. Oh wait, yea I do know where one is… but just one.

I’ve reserved #2 and #3 from the library and am looking forward to them. (Since I never owned them, it’s possible that I’ve never read them… imagine that!)

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The Libyrinth

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TW kept telling me that I had to read The Libyrinth. I couldn’t figure out why. It looked like some run of the mill YA fantasy novel. What’s the big deal? TW likes fantasy but she tends to be not as big a fan of YA as I am.

It took all of two paragraphs for me to figure out why she liked it. Books. A library, the biggest library EVER. Ritualistic book burnings carried out by people who are either Eradicants or Singers, depending upon your point of view. Strong women, lesbians. The book had everything. EVERYTHING.

One of the characters, hears written text, and since she lives and works in a library (the Libyrinth) she is surrounded by books – random lines from random books appear throughout the story and it’s interesting to see how quickly we recognize (or don’t) the lines. (The list of quoted books is in the back, which was nice.)

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Ruby’s Imagine

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I plucked Ruby’s Imagine off of the shelf because of the cover. It’s a tiny little book with a half flap type of book cover. It was appealing. And then it sat on the shelf in my house for weeks. When I finished the Weiner book, it was late at night but not quite time to turn off the lights so I grabbed this one. Something small, short, quick – and also something that needs to go back to the library soon.

I had no idea what this book was about.

A teenage girl in NOLA in the days leading up to/during Katrina.

If I’d known what it was about, I probably wouldn’t have checked it out. I’m glad I didn’t know because it was good. Great writing, excellent story, characters I enjoyed getting to know just a little bit. I don’t know if Kim Antieau has written anything else, but I think I’m going to find out.

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Best Friends Forever

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I boycotted Jennifer Weiner for a couple of years. I thought I was going to stick with my boycott but TW said Best Friends Forever was good – really good. So I broke down and read it.

It was good. Jennifer Weiner chick litty – good. I liked Addie. I didn’t particularly like Val but I didn’t hate her either. I would like to know more about Merry…. Maybe she needs a book of her own?

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What day is it?

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I always have a hard time figuring out the day/date in January. The new year. The holiday down time. It all adds up to confuse me. This year, the confusion is worse and I’m blaming our new pin-up calendar.

TW insists on hanging a calendar in the bathroom and I’ve gotten used to it being there. I have sometimes ordered her a special bathroom calendar and gifted it to her for Christmas. Other years we’ve bought the bathroom calendar at Wild Iris or at some bookstore or another when they were on sale. This year, we were a little bit behind on our calendar buying (let’s blame Steph and the Patriarchy for that.)

We ended up going to Borders well into the new year and the pickings were pretty slim. We ended up buying an Outhouse calendar for the other bathroom and a Pin-Up calendar for our bathroom. I really like the Pin-Up calendar. Except…. I never know what effing day it is. The calendar starts on Monday. I don’t like calendars that start on Monday. The calendar week starts on SUNDAY. Damn it.

Every time I use the bathroom… I look at the calendar and I get confused about what day it is or what the date is. I’m in a state of constant date/day confusion – it’s so bad that I try a) not to use the bathroom all day b) try not to look at the calendar – ever.

Next year… I don’t care what the pictures on the calendar look like – I just want to make sure that the calendar week starts on Sunday – like it is supposed to.

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The Betrayal of the Blood Lily

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I have been looking forward to The Betrayal of the Blood Lily for a very long time. Thank goodness, I wasn’t disappointed.  Best book in the series, since book one.

I like Penelope. A lot. Pen needs her own series.

I also liked the bits and pieces about Colin, Eloise and the rest of the “modern day” crew, which is saying something since I often find myself wanting to just hurry up and get this bit over with so we can get back to the real spy stories.

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Wildwater Walking Club

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I decided to read the The Wildwater Walking Club because a) it’s been on the shelf for weeks b) it looked like a quick and easy piece of chick lit c) the cover reminded me a little bit of Kris Radish’s books.

It was a quick read. It was a little Radish-like. It was a little bit too much of a mish-mash of chick lit topics. Did we really need the NOLA teacher with cancer storyline? I don’t think that we did.

I loved the clotheslines. Loved the lavender. Love the dozens of boxes of walking shoes. Just an all around fun book, nothing too horribly heart breaking (which maybe is why the NOLA teacher thing was tossed in – gotta have something heartbreaking or something?)

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