I saw these on some book blog, or maybe on some gay blog, or may be on some gay book blog and was thrilled to see our library system had Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary. Lesbian pulp fiction – there’s NOTHING better. Really.
Our library doesn’t have Bobbie Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher so I’m gonna have to buy it, lol.
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Perry’s Killer Playlist is Killer… the actual playlist (which I think I’m going to have to create on my iPhone and on Spotify) and the book. If you haven’t read Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick, read that first – and then read Perry’s Killer Playlist. Read before the movie comes out.
The Santa Claus convention, nice touch. Lol
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I kind of loved Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan. I loved that it’s the first book about Tarzan written by a woman and authorized by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate.
I’m not a huge Tarzan fan but this one – work of art.
Look at this quote:
““My Dad, John Coleman Burroughs, and my Grandad, Edgar Rice Burroughs, would often discuss Tarzan’s relation to Jane. `Now there is an idea for a good book….one that really brings Jane into focus,’ Grandad would say. Robin Maxwell’s book does this brilliantly. Not only do Tarzan and Jane transform into a living, breathing couple who bring the Tarzan saga to new life, but the thrills and adventure leap off the page in the grand tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs himself.” —John R. Burroughs, Grandson of Edgar Rice Burroughs”
That should be enough for you to decide to read this one.
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If you’re an Adriana Trigiani fan, you won’t need any encouragement to read The Shoemaker’s Wife. It will be exactly what you expected and you won’t want to put it down. Probably.
I am a fan but I had a hard time getting into the book, at first – once the brothers settled into the convent, I settled in and I enjoyed every page. I think my problem was that I expected Catarina to be a lead character, I didn’t expect the boys (or just Ciro, really) to be the lead so the beginning threw me.
The ending came a little fast for me, too. I didn’t need to be “surprised” like Enza was. I knew it was coming and would have liked to see it happen, ya know? More of Laura would have been nice and it would have fit with the theme of best friends/replacement mothers.
Like she needs me to re-write her ending, right?
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When Sassymonkey tells me I should read a book, I almost always listen because she’s almost always right. It sometimes takes me months to actually find the time (or the room on my TBR list) to read what she recommends but I do it. Luckily, the timing was pretty much perfect for her recommendation of The Rook. I reserved it within minutes of her telling me I needed to read it. And, I read it just a couple of days after it arrived at the library. The most frustrating thing was having it ready to read and being too busy, too tired, or to ill to read it.
The opening page is fabulous. The first five pages were so interesting that I kept putting it down to think about what I’d do if I was in THAT position. What choices would I make? How come she did not even THINK about calling the police? I mean really… wouldn’t she have? Was there something underneath it all, maybe a memory or a piece of personality not gone that caused her to never even really consider that as an option? And if that’s true, is she really someone “else” at all?
It’s a fun book, a really fun book. I cannot get enough of Myfanwy Thomas. I need more. Immediately. Or I might just have to read this darn book all over again. And I want more Ingrid, too.
Blood Red Road, post apocalyptic YA fiction – on audio. Fun stuff. Oddly enough, there’s a bit of a summer king storyline (one of the other Cybils books had a summer king storyline.) I enjoyed the book quite a bit, there were some great female characters but Saba made me nuts – I’m not sure she ever really learned anything, no matter how it ended or how there were points in the story when it looked like she was learning some important life lessons.
Looks like there is a book 2, we’ll have to listen to that to see what happens next. I hope Emmy grows up and kicks her sister’s butt.
TW said An Uncommon Education was good, so I read it. And it was. I particularly liked the role Rose Kennedy played in the story – and I ended up liking the Shakespeare Society more than I thought I was going to. The middle of the book, that first year of Wellesley, it was a little slow. Thankfully it picked up nicely after the fall in the lake and besides the fact that I saw the end coming a mile away (the end for pretty much all of the characters), I liked the book overall.
I didn’t love it. But I definitely liked it.
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I’ve probably checked Nerd Camp out from the library three times this year and have never had a chance to read it. Or, more accurately, I always put off reading it. It just seemed like other books would be more interesting or more fun. Hah. Silly me. When I finally started reading it late last night, I couldn’t put it down.
I laughed out loud. I sighed deeply as Gabe tried to figure out just how cool he’d need to be in order to have his new step brother like him. I laughed out loud some more. And the happy ending made me smile, too.
Ouch. I’ve fallen way behind on book blogging. How did that happen?
Let’s see…
Last night I finished Letters to Kurt. Oy. That was depressing. Not that I expected it to not be depressing. Writing letters about suicide and the aftermath to your, errr, friend who committed suicide – particularly when you’re Eric Erlandson – makes for depressing business.
Before that, I read Always Coca-Cola. Interesting. Translated from the original, (Lebanese? Arabic? I’ve forgotten.), I liked it. I liked the three women featured. I liked the contrast between them. I liked the cynical look at branding and identity.
And before that, a book that doesn’t really fit with the other two but hey, I’ve fallen behind and I’ve got to get caught up somehow. A Street Through Time – children’s nonfiction. I have no idea how this ended up in our library bag. I probably snagged it from the featured non-fiction in the new release area, I do that a lot. Interesting but not quite as interesting as I’d hoped. I don’t know why it didn’t catch me as much as I thought it would. Elly must not have loved it either since she didn’t say anything about it at all when she put it back on the shelf. Kind of ho-hum.
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How the heck did The Encyclopedia of Me end up on my bookshelf if it’s not a Cybil? This is really not the kind of book I’d just pick up and nothing about the cover screams “must read” to me. So weird. It’s not a bad book, just not my thing and I’m so far behind on my reading lists that taking time to read this one wasn’t smart. Oops. I liked bits and pieces of it but I found the encyclopedia idea a bit tedious. I’d have rather just had the story of Tink/Isadora and her family/friends without the encyclopedia entries because that part was good. (If you’re looking for a book about autism and families, this one is interesting.)
A YA scifi/fantasy that is on the Cybils list and was good, was The Shattering. It’s written by the same author who wrote Guardian of the Dead that we listened to earlier in the year? Last year? Recently. So we had some ideas about what it would be like – and it was, though less Maori mythology than I expected there to be. And, the same thing happened in this book that happened in the last one – it runs just a little long.
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