Books in Bed

Fast Women

2014, Books in Bed, Chick Lit, Favorites, Women /

I just plain like Jennifer Crusie and I don’t read nearly enough of her books because my TBR list is generally PACKED. When I ran out of books I wanted/needed to read, I figured this was a good time to grab one of her paperbacks and have some fun.

Fast Women was fun. I loved ALL of the “fast women”. Every single one of them. And, I stayed up way too late, two nights in a row, reading this one. I’m tempted to start one more Jennifer Crusie novel while I’m waiting to go to the library and pick up some holds that are on my TBR list… though I really should read something from my stacks of unread books…

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Low Budget Tricks for Small Spaces

2014, Books in Bed, Non-Fiction /

Well. It was pretty. That’s just about the only good thing I can say about Low Budget Tricks for Small Spaces.

I picked this one up at the library because, well, it was pretty. Unfortunately there’s almost no text in the book and the “low budget tricks” didn’t appear to be very low budget, as far as I could tell. I also couldn’t always figure out what the “trick” was.

I’m not going to say it was a waste of time because it was very pretty and there were some super interesting rooms. It just wasn’t a very helpful book if you wanted, umm, low budget tricks for small rooms.

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The House of Impossible Loves

2014, Books in Bed, Fiction, Women /

You never really know what you’re going to get with a book that’s been translated to English… a bad translation can turn a good book into something not great. Luckily, The House of Impossible Loves was a pretty darn good book.

If you like fairy tales or good storytelling, in general. If you like extra-quirky storytelling, then you’re probably going to really like this one. It’s not a quick, easy read (which is why it took me so long to get through it. I read like a chapter a day for the first three days, because I was too sick to really focus and it does take a lot of focus to follow) but well worth sticking with it.

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The Mapping of Love and Death

2014, Audiobooks, Books in Bed, Favorites, Feminism, Fiction /

The Mapping of Love and Death was another great Maisie Dobbs book. Sad, so sad. But, interesting to see where Maisie goes now that the world is her oyster, so to speak. I’m not sure how I feel about the whole James Compton thing. It’s probably going to be fine and certainly better than Dr Dean for goodness sakes.

I really enjoyed the whole cartographer/diaries/letters thing. Well done. Very well done.

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The Good Neighbors: Kind

2014, Books in Bed, Comics & Graphic Novels, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Young Adult /

I’m doing a great job of catching up on series I’d started and let slide. Holly Black’s The Good Neighbors series, for instance. I read #3, Kind last night.

It was good but who didn’t see that coming? Apparently all of Rue’s human friends? This is a good graphic novel series. Very Holly Black-like. I sometimes find the illustrations a little confusing. Sometimes the guys seem drawn a little too similarly and I have to do a double take when I realize this is not the guy who I thought it was? Otherwise, a perfectly enjoyable faerie graphic novel.

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The Boy Who Sees Demons

2014, Books in Bed, Fiction /

Books about schizophrenia are always freaky and odd and twisty turny and The Boy Who Sees Demons was all of those things. I was pretty sure this wasn’t quite as straight forward as it seemed to be in the beginning and once Anya started considering the whole demon thing, I knew what was going to happen.

And sure enough — that’s what happened.

The end felt rushed, to me. We go all that way and then the twist comes and it’s over just like that. Seems like we could have had another chapter or two in there? I dunno.

It was a pretty good book, if you like that sort of psychological confusing schizophrenia story.

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The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe

2014, Books in Bed, Chick Lit, Fiction /

Pure chicklit, that’s what The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe is. It was a fun and quick read. I enjoyed the trips to The Antler the most. It was a little hard to believe that neither Ellen or her mother knew anything about Ruth’s history with art. I can’t imagine how she’d have kept that kind of thing a secret — why her husband wouldn’t have encouraged her to paint. It doesn’t make much sense, really. So odd.

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