Books in Bed

Spinning Forward

7 Comments / 2009, Books in Bed, Chick Lit, Favorites, Fiction, Women /

When sassymonkey Chattered/Tweeted about Spinning Forward all I did was look at the cover, see the pretty yarn and reserve it at the library. I didn’t look to see what it was about.

When I picked it up on Thursday I realized it was about a woman who opened a yarn store in Cedar Key… and I really did almost cry.

I miss my LYS and my LYSOs. I miss Florida. I miss Cedar Key.

The book itself was nice enough. Not an award winner but a nice story about a woman finding herself. I wouldn’t have liked it nearly as much if it hadn’t been set in Cedar Key and if I didn’t have such great LYSO friends.

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Going Bovine

1 Comment / 2009, Audiobooks, Books in Bed, Chick Lit, Fiction, Queer, Young Adult /

Not sure why I grabbed Going Bovine on audio, probably related to having just finished South of Broad on audio and feeling like something was missing by being in the car without an audio book.

It was a good choice for audio. I think it was probably better in audio than I’d have found it if I’d read it in paper.

Amusing story and I appreciated that the ending wasn’t fairy tale (TW was less appreciative of that and I bet if the kids had heard the ending, they’d have been disappointed.)

The best parts were related to the CESSNAB (Church of Everlasting Satisfaction and Snack and Bowl) and the “freeing of the snowglobes”.

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The Shape of Snakes

1 Comment / 2009, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, From the Stacks Challenge, Mystery /

I am such a Minette Walters fan. I can’t help it, she’s just awesome. Being such a huge fan, I have no idea why we’ve owned The Shape of Snakes for years and I’ve never made the time to read it. Until now. (Yay me, one more crossed off of the From the Stacks Challenge.)

A typical Walters book, a crime (or several) – a mystery – characters you love and hate and are a wee bit afraid of (even when they’re the “good guys”) Twists and turns.

This one featured…. race relations… London… Tourette Syndrome.

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Kitchen

2009, Books in Bed, Don't Read This, Fiction, Queer /

Well that was disappointing.

I picked up Kitchen because it was a cute little paperback with an interesting cover, printed on interesting paper, the author’s name is Banana (cool!), and because I’d recently returned from BlogHer Food. I was infected by Foodies.

I picked it up on Saturday (or was it Sunday?) because it was due back soon and because it was short. I needed something short.

Oy. It was indeed short. Extra short since I didn’t read the second story tacked on at the end of the book. It was not really related to Kitchen and I figured suffering through Kitchen was enough.

OK Maybe suffer isn’t the right word. But it surely wasn’t as good as I’d hoped. It was weird and not in a good way. I kept saying “Huh? WT… Huh?” all the way through it.

It had transgendered people in it, for goodness sakes. I should have loved it. But I definitely didn’t love it. I’ll blame it on the translation.

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The Wet Nurse’s Tale

1 Comment / 2009, Books in Bed, Fiction, Women /

Oh look, another book we got at the library after we saw it at Women and Children First. TW forced me to read The Wet Nurse’s Tale. I didn’t want to. It looked like nothing special and I’m so far behind on my From the Stacks Challenge that I will never catch up. But she insisted and it was late when I finished Skyscraper. So rather than go out to the office and figure out what I was reading next, I just started Wet Nurse, because it was there.

And last night I stayed up to finish it. It wasn’t super compelling until the end. Before the end, it was just a nice little story about a young girl who becomes a wet nurse (and whose mother had been a wet nurse.)

The ending – I liked it.

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The Wordy Shipmates

1 Comment / 2009, Audiobooks, Books in Bed, Favorites, Non-Fiction /

Another book we saw at Women and Children First. The Wordy Shipmates, I reserved on audio not having the remotest clue as to what it was about. All I knew was that TW wanted to read it and we hadn’t had an audio book for awhile.

Hah. Best audio decision I’ve ever made. Better even than the Ladies #1 Detective Agency books on audio.

At first, we just looked at each other in disbelief. The voice, the writing – it was our friend from BlogHer, Suzanne Reisman. But of course it wasn’t, it was Sarah Vowell but still… so, very Suzanne Reisman-like.

The snark! The glorious snark! And all of it directed at our Puritan forefathers. This ought to be required LISTENING for high school students. It’s interesting. Funny. Smart. I was sorry to see it end.

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Skyscraper

2009, Books in Bed, Favorites, Feminism, Fiction, Women /

Skyscraper is a bit of pulp fiction by Faith Baldwin, re-released as part of the femme-fatales series, and I noticed it at Women & Children First a couple of weeks ago.

I’m a fan of woman written pulp so I reserved it at the library. It was the perfect read after finishing Say You’re One of the Them. Nice introduction and afterward as well.

If you haven’t read any of the old pulp fiction, or haven’t read any in a long time – check out the femme fatales series. Or anything by Faith Baldwin.

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