Man what a difficult book. Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters was a good and interesting read but depressing as HELL. Longer post on BlogHer. Now I’m going to find something to eat. Sheesh.
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Once again, a whole week to read a book but it’s not the book’s fault. I really need to figure out this east coast/west coast schedule thing and until I do that, my reading time is going to be pretty limited. Too bad since it means it’s taking me a long time to read a great, fun book like NO! I Don’t Want to Join a Book Club.
That is my idea of old age (and death) – I’m not going to go back to school, or learn a foreign language, or do some weird travel excursions. I’m going to enjoy doing nothing. That’s it. No clubs or volunteer work. When I’m old I want to enjoy being old and feel no guilt for not having time or desire to do what other people think I ought to be doing.
I can barely wait to be 60!
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The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights by Faye Kellerman is a book of short stories or short crime stories to be specific. TW reserved this on from the library on audio. Do you know why she reserved this one on audio? Because Nancy McKeon was listed as a narrator of the book. We were about half way through it and enjoying it very much when we realized we hadn’t yet heard Nancy narrate a story. We got all of the way to the end and still no Nancy. Weird. Apparently our library version is not the same version as the one you can order at Amazon. Ah well, we still enjoyed the stories very much. We would both recommend this one but agree that we probably wouldn’t have enjoyed it as much if we had read it rather than listened to it.
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The Wilde Women took me a very long time to read and I have no idea why. It was one of the best books I’ve read all year. It’s definitely chick lit but it’s really well written chick lit. Strong writing, strong characters.
Have I read The Rock Orchard? Have you? Will I be disappointed if I read it? I don’t want anything to taint The Wilde Women for me.
Heh. TW reserved The Good Fairies of New York when she heard one of the characters in it has Crohn’s. TW read it and was amused. I read it and was also amused. I love the alternative “teen” type fairies with colored hair and ripped kilts trying to corrupt the young fairies of Scotland. Awesome. The fairy war was a little much and the darn “poppy” chase was a lot much. Other than that, awesome. And like Neil Gaimon, I have no idea why this hasn’t been made into a play or a movie.
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I love Rickey and G-man! When I reserved D*U*C*K I didn’t realize it was about the great chefs of New Orleans, I just knew it was the first book Poppy Z Brite had written post Katrina. What a pleasant surprise. This one was shorter, not as fleshed out and full as the others (The Value of X, Soul Kitchen, Liquor, Prime), but very good and lots of fun. I am looking forward to Dead Shrimp Blues.
Yesterday I blogged World Wide Knit in Public Day and today I’m back to review another knitting book. I’m still NOT a knitter.
The Knitting Circle is the best “knitting book” I’ve ever read. Loved every character and every word and I did not want the book to end.
Men and women dealing with grief and loss and fear through knitting and through relationships created and strengthened through the knitting circle. There are some happy endings. Some not so happy endings. Some endings that are both happy and not.
Loved it. Read it. (Thanks for recommending it, mom!)
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Heart Shaped Box is what you get when you cross Stephen King with Tabitha King – a really excellent piece of horror writing. Joe Hill has a lot of his dad in him and a good bit of his mom. And, I do believe, this little book of his might just be better than the majority of what his father has written. Really, really, really nice book. Loved the metal references. Angus and Bon hahaha, loved the seeing dead rockstars in the hospital. Oh, and this would also make a fabulous movie – especially if all of those rockstars (the live ones obviously, though the dead ones would be cool too) made appearances. Awesome!
The only problem I had with the book was that listening to it on audio made me want to flip off the book and plop in some AC/DC or something. Weird because I really don’t ever get that type of urge.
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Remember a couple of months ago when I was talking about Tabitha King? Well I finally got around to reading Candles Burning the novel started by Michael McDowell. He died before it was completed so Tabitha King picked up his manuscript and wrote the story. It was good. Really very good.
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There are a lot of “awe” moments in the latest installment of the #1 Ladies Detective Agency series, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive. Mostly there are happy endings for all of the major characters – but poor Charlie, poor poor Charlie!
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