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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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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I’m a Mary Roach fan but if it hadn’t been for someone on BlogHer, I wouldn’t have known she had a new book: Bonk. (TW and RJ assumed it was about head injuries. They’re both clueless.)
I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as I did Stiff and Spook but that’s because I’m not a huge fan of graphic descriptions of skinning penises. Heck, I’m not a fan of any kind of description of skinning penises. I’m not really a fan of penises at all. Anyway. I enjoyed it. Mary Roach is brilliant and her willingness to participate in sex studies in order to get the details is admirable. Would YOU watch porn while a light wand was inserted in your vagina? Would you have sex with your partner inside of an MRI tube?
On a related note, anyone interested in Flibanserin? Just wondering….
I was leery of Alexander McCall Smith's La's Orchestra Saves the World. I love the Ladies #1 Detective Agency series but have never been able to read more than a few pages of any of his other books. They just weren't good.
TW was equally suspicious of the book and when I'd been reading it for four days and hadn't gotten past the second chapter, she told me to just give up because it was just like all of the others we'd tried. But I persisted. I was slow to read it because I was distracted by the holiday and work and travel and my big kids. I was pretty sure it wasn't the book that was the problem. I was right. Once we got home and got settled into something close to our normal routine, I ripped through the book in two days. (It would have been one day but the lure of a new laptop is strong…) The book is pretty damn good. In fact it's better than that. I highly recommend it. I like La. I like the people we get to know from the orchestra and the small English town. I liked it all very much and found myself wishing the author had written it differently so that it could be a series. But no, every book can't be a series, can it?La’s Orchestra Saves the World Read More »
I stumbled across a blog post or a comment or an article about My Mother’s House & Sido and realized I had never read them. Gasp. Must read Colette whenever possible!
So I did, and I liked both. Colette is a favorite. Always a favorite.
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Oh look, I finished a book. I’ve hit a rough patch, have you noticed? Work related. Life related. Bad book related. Not that Her Fearful Symmetry was bad. It wasn’t bad at all, it was good. Pretty freaking freaky and creepy and really not what I expected from the author of Time Traveler’s Wife.
Though I suppose it is a kind of travel… really good, dark, interesting reading.
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When I gave up on The Lacuna, I picked up Matchless. Yay, a short book by an author I like, based on a fairy tale. I could wash away my depression around not being able to read the Kingsolver with a bit of Christmas fairy fantasy.
Yep. That’s what happened. Sort of.
Matchless is a nice, easy story. I read it right before I turned out the lights last night. A very nice bedtime story. I believe you can listen to Matchless on NPR – it was written specifically for NPR and meant to be listened to rather than read.
I wasn’t sure I was going to read Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive. My to be read list was long and it seemed like one of those books you read bits and pieces of while reading other things – and I wasn’t in the mood to do that.
But, TW had provided a bit of commentary about it when she read it – so a couple of days before it was due back to the library, I picked it up. I assumed I’d read a couple of sections and then just take it back. Instead, I found myself reading it all of the way through. It was interesting.
Interesting to think about yourself, your managers, your coworkers and how they use (or don’t use) these smart methods of persuasion and management. Very interesting.
I read Parable of the Sower years ago. So long ago that I really had forgotten it, so listening to it on audio was like reading it for the first time.
I’m an Octavia Butler fan and every time I read (or re-read) something she’s written, I become an even bigger fan.
God is Change.
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I’m not a big fan of short stories but I loved Bloodchild and other stories. No real surprise since I’m an Octavia Butler fan.
Quick, interesting, nice author’s notes after each story. More authors should include such things.