Again with the YA and again with a book from my A to Z challenge. This one was considerably better than the last one particularly if you like mindless YA chick lit where the cool kids go geek and the geek kids gain some cool cred and they all live happily ever after – except for the cool kids who aren’t smart enough to go a little geek.
The Queen of the Cool: Fun. Easy. Mindless. Typical. Not bad at all.
I can’t remember how I stumbled upon Kilt Dead – is it written by the author who did that Garden Spells book? Or maybe that tea shop in Charleston mystery? Whatever. I know I reserved it because I was amused by the title, that’s a great way to choose a book, right?
It’s a great title but not a great book. Not a bad book, either. Just what you’d expect. A little chick lit. A little mystery.
And to think I almost didn’t bother reading Garden Spells because I’m so far behind on my TBR list and haven’t even come close to finishing my A to Z challenge. I’d have missed a fun piece of chick lit.
A quirky southern town with all of the appropriate quirky characters, with magic and a bad guy and true love and also the token gay story line tossed in for good measure.
Excellent light reading. Almost made me want an apple.
TW laughed so hard while reading There’s a (slight) change I’m going to hell that she woke me up, twice. This is a sure sign that I’m either going to really LOVE a book or be really disappointed.
I was disappointed. But not as much as I feared.
It was amusing but not THAT amusing. TW has a weird sense of humor or maybe it’s the “faculty wife” thing I don’t get. Or the “pageant” thing? Or the making friends thing? Whatever. It was funny and TW laughed out loud over and over again. I just chuckled a few times.
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 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.
Well I’ve done it, I’ve read the last of the Kris Radish books. Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral was like the others, not as good as The Elegant Gathering of White Snows but it was good. In that feel good, woman power sort of way.
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Alrighty then. I finished it last night. It’s chick lit, plain and simple chick lit. I had hoped for something else, not that I don’t like chick lit – I do like chick lit, I love it. I just expected more about people’s obsessions with “things”. I read that before the book arrived and I thought I was in for something a little different. But no. Darn it.
So, about this piece of chick lit. Medwed made a huge change in the general format of chick lit – rather than give her heroine a gay friend or a lesbian friend, she gave her lesbian moms! Unfortunately, she killed the moms before we got to meet them and their demise was really what caused all of the drama.
Well their demise, their lack of a solid will (let that be a lesson to dykes everywhere, including THIS dyke) and Abby’s inability to do anything except wallow in her own self-pity.
I’m used to female lead characters in chick lit who are drowning slowly and painfully. Abby – not slowly but very painfully. The woman was a mess. Til she got her guy back! Then, like magic, poof! All better!
I liked some things about How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life – I disliked others. All in all – a 5, which is where most Chick Lit lives. Worth reading at the beach or when you need something mindless to lose yourself in.
Who am I sending this too, once TW has read it? Anyone want it? Anyone into chamber pots or EBB?
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Another Radish book down, is it two or three more to go? I am not sure, I’ve lost track and they are beginning to blend in together just a little bit. Though Sunday List of Dreams was different from the other two in some significant ways (main character was just a little more reserved than the others and errr uhhh ummm the whole sex toy industry thing….sheesh).
TW didn’t really like this one, she said. The person who first recommended Elegant Gathering didn’t like this one very much. I, on the otherhand, liked it quite a bit more than Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn. It’s not often that you read a book about sex toys and the “womyn’s festival”.
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Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn, another Kris Radish, is pure chick lit with a dumb title. Any number of great lines from the book could have been used as the title, too bad something else wasn’t selected. Anyway, back to the pure chick lit – that’s what it was. Nothing really new or unusual about it, unlike the Elegant Gathering of White Snows which all felt new and unusual. Pure chick lit (and as you know if you read my book blogging regularly, I like chick lit.)
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