Books in Bed

Princess Labelmaker To the Recue

2014, Books in Bed, Children's Literature, Comics & Graphic Novels, Favorites, Fiction /

Another great book, Princess Labelmaker to the Rescue is NOT my favorite of the series. I didn’t think that could happen after I liked the last book so much. But it did — Rabbski came through and I liked the entries in the log book that were not so much about the evil Fun Time but about the kids working together and solving issues. I especially liked the kid (Kellen? Tommy?) who stood up for graphic novels. That was great.

Love, love, love.

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A Murder of Crows

2014, Books in Bed, Fiction, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Women /

So. I read A Murder of Crows and I liked it a lot. As I did the first book in the Others series. I mean I really like the plot and the characters and the dialogue. And, for a second book — it was pretty good and not quite as let’s set up for the third book as second books can be.

So all good, right?

Except… I struggle with how blood prophets aka the teenage girl cutters, are portrayed in this series. There’s some glorification of cutting by teenage girls that bothers me. So while I’m enjoying the book, I’m also feeling creeped out and troubled by it at the same time.

I want to read the third book but at the same time, I don’t because it’s … wrong.

(And if you’re a cutter or have a history of self-harm, don’t read this series.)

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Organized Simplicity

2014, Books in Bed, Kindle, Non-Fiction /

Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Simple Living was on my Kindle app. No idea how it got there. Or when. Tsh is a blogger, you might have seen The Art of Simple before, so it’s possible I bought it just because she’s a blogger. I do that. I buy a lot of bloggers’ books on Kindle and then forget about them until I need a Kindle book to read.

Which is how I started reading this book. I was actually in the process of doing some de-cluttering in the laundry/stockpile room when I started reading this. It moves really quickly, particularly since there are some sections that are just not ME.

It’s not a bad book, though I found the end a little long — that’s the clean/de-clutter section. Since you pretty much do all of the same things from room to room, did we really need quite so much repeat there? Seems like it would have been more efficient to lay out the process and then provide a schedule for all of the rooms and then add info that’s specific to each room. Whatevs.

I didn’t love the book. Didn’t hate the book. I do really want to get up and do some de-cluttering right now because OMG we have so much stuff, lol.

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Rocket Girl

2014, Books in Bed, Non-Fiction, Women /

It took me a darn week to read Rocket Girl because it just wasn’t compelling enough to keep me reading when I was so tired each night. It was also disappointing because so much of the narrative was fiction — because Mary Sherman Morgan kept so many secrets.

Super interesting story, too bad her son didn’t try to sort all of this out before she died. I’m glad I read it, I just wish there had been more meat to the story.

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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

2014, Audiobooks, Books in Bed, Cybil Challenge, Fiction, Young Adult /

I can’t decide whether I’m glad we listened to Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass on audio or not. I LOVED the Spanish in it but my Spanish is bad so I’d have liked to have been able to look some of that stuff up. Not that I didn’t understand the gist of it but still, it would have been more fun to do that (in some ways.)

The book itself, excellent. Very nice change to have great Latina characters. I very much loved that. I really liked Piddy and her mom and Lila. I spent much of today saying “Que lindo!” to myself because Lila said it and it made me laugh (a friend in Panama used to say it a lot) and it was very appropriate at many times today (sarcastically and not sarcastically.)

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Maddie On Things

1 Comment / 2014, Books in Bed, Non-Fiction /

I have a love/hate with Maddie On Things. Lord knows I love me a coonhound (hah) and I love people taking road trips and taking photos in unusual places while on road trips. And when people take photos of their coonhound in unusual places on road trips, I’m pretty happy.

Except I did not like many of the things Maddie was standing on. Or the weather she was standing on those things in.

It was cold. And uncomfortable.

And just because your dog can do something doesn’t really mean she should.

So — love/hate. Love/hate.

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The Death of the Great Santini

2014, Books in Bed, Non-Fiction /

The Death of the Great Santini wasn’t a great memoir but it was interesting — in places. The beginning and the ending, in particular — the stuff in the middle was a little touch and go. I’ve wondered what happened to the family after The Great Santini was written — now I know.

Reading it made me want to sit through a Conroy movie marathon or re-read his books but who has time for that? I watched Conrack tonight (thank you, youtube – it’s been ages since I’ve seen that movie!) and I think I’ll watch The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides next week and skip The Lords of Discipline because I can only take so much anger and The Lords of Discipline makes me shudder. (Go Bulldogs? ugh.)

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