And to think, I almost didn’t read Jam on the Vine. Sheesh. One of the best books I’ve read this year and I almost missed it. Good thing TW pointed it out when she finished.
This is not the normal post-civil war era book. There are black Muslims in Texas. There are lesbians. It makes you think a bit of Ida B. Welles but not enough to actually make you feel like you’re reading Ida B Wells fan fiction or something like that.
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The Strange Library was strange. Obviously. Title. Author. What did I expect? I expected a bit more of a graphic novel than it was. I also expected to like it more than I did. It was perfectly fine. Crazy, weird, strange, but also interesting. It just wasn’t amazing, which is what I was hoping for.
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The problem with Joe Ledger books is that it takes me almost 100 pages to become invested in the story. Before then, I read an “event” and put the book down wondering why I keep reading them. Then I hit page 100 and off I go, not wanting to put the book down at all.
King of Plagues – that’s the stuff of nightmares. Really. All of the horrible things. [shudder] Also, I think Ledger is losing brain cells. He should have figured out the whole Circe thing on his own. [eyeroll]
Good grief, Mortal Heart was LONG. It seems like it was almost twice as long as the first two books and they were long, too.
I didn’t enjoy this one as much as the first two — the whole errr relationship thing was a little weird. A lot weird. I liked having the three girls back together, that was good. I liked the solution to the problem with France. That was smart. Errr, the relationship thing was weird. I said that, right?
Why does that always happen? I read one book set in the lowcountry and the next thing you know, everything I read is set in the lowcountry.
I enjoyed Sweetgrass. It wasn’t great but it wasn’t horrible. I liked the ghost and the cemetery — good solution for all of the issues and I think it ended as it should have ended.
Also, towards the end, one character talks about the old Grace Bridge and the new (stupid) bridge. That probably made the entire book worth reading for me, lol.
Oh boy. Pointe was a problem book with all the problems. ALL OF THEM. TOO MANY PROBLEMS.
But, errr, I didn’t put it down once I got past the second chapter. It was compelling — trying to figure out how all of this mess was going to come together to make an ending to the mess. Sheesh.
Yay for diversity in YA but boo because another ballerina with anorexia? Really? Along with the sexual abuse and the over-privileged drug use and it turned out to be just another typical YA novel, really.
I didn’t hate it but I didn’t love it, either.
God Help the Child was a surprisingly quick read. I don’t think “quick read” when I think of Toni Morrison. I mean it was really fast. I finished it in a day.
It was also… very Toni Morrison-like but, not enough Toni Morrison-like. It was beautifully written. There were moments of pure brilliance. But overall, it was just… not amazing.
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Well that was depressing. Good, but depressing. The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell is FICTION but loosely based on a real person. The question is, how loosely based. I’m not a huge fan of the whole “ghost” story author’s note at the end… that sounds to me like it was added because family members of Lobdell tell a slightly different version of the story. Not that it matters, still a depressing story. Lesbian woman. Trans man. Whatevs. Pretty darn sad.
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Yay! Another book in the series! Boo, I’m not sure I read all of the “glass” books, haha. I need to go back and figure that out. I did enjoy Shadow Study but not as much as the other books (that I remember reading in the two series. lol) And I absolutely knew what Yelena’s problem was from the very beginning. Wasn’t it a little obvious?
I think the next two books are going to be very interesting…
I read the third book in the series early last month and since I enjoyed it, I figured I’d go back and read the first two.
Lowcountry Boil was pretty good. Not as good as book three but not bad. I’m still looking forward to the second book in the series.