Wah. We’ve officially caught up with all of the Maisie Dobbs books. Leaving Everything Most Loved was TOUGH.
All of the leaving and moving on to new things. Billy and Sandra. Gah!
Yay for Frankie and Brenda.
Can’t decide whether I like James or hate him. Pretty sad when I start to think Maisie should hook up with Caldwell…
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I’ve always been a Carol Danvers fan but I was afraid In Pursuit of Flight wasn’t going to live up to the hype. It did. It definitely did. I’m not a big fan of time travel stories (funny, I was just ranting about that a bit in my journal, before I picked up this book) but this one worked for me. Helen calling Carol “kitten” — fabulous. Just fabulous. Loved the Banshees. Loved all of the art. And of course, loved Carol taking up the Captain Marvel mantle.
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Book two, Ghost Train to New Orleans, was just as fun as the first one. I love this series. I love Zoe and her writers. I’m happy about what happened with Arthur (and Kevin, for that matter.) Can’t wait to see what happens when they head to England. That’s going to be crazy!
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I very much enjoyed Sue Monk Kidd’s The Invention of Wings. We need more books, fiction or otherwise, about the Grimké sisters, Sarah and Angelina.
*Note: Apparently this was a damn Oprah book pick and if you buy a Kindle copy, you might find Oprah’s notes IN THE BOOK. That… stinks. If you’re thinking about buying this, avoid the kindle copy since there are blue notes in the text — that’s Oprah sticking her two cents in. Blech. I’m very glad I read a library copy that did not have Oprah’s notes in it, just the dumb Oprah book selection banner on the front. Blech. Oprah, stay out of people’s darn books!
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So. I read A Murder of Crows and I liked it a lot. As I did the first book in the Others series. I mean I really like the plot and the characters and the dialogue. And, for a second book — it was pretty good and not quite as let’s set up for the third book as second books can be.
So all good, right?
Except… I struggle with how blood prophets aka the teenage girl cutters, are portrayed in this series. There’s some glorification of cutting by teenage girls that bothers me. So while I’m enjoying the book, I’m also feeling creeped out and troubled by it at the same time.
I want to read the third book but at the same time, I don’t because it’s … wrong.
(And if you’re a cutter or have a history of self-harm, don’t read this series.)
It took me a darn week to read Rocket Girl because it just wasn’t compelling enough to keep me reading when I was so tired each night. It was also disappointing because so much of the narrative was fiction — because Mary Sherman Morgan kept so many secrets.
Super interesting story, too bad her son didn’t try to sort all of this out before she died. I’m glad I read it, I just wish there had been more meat to the story.
Elegy for Eddie was a TOUGH Maisie Dobbs novel. People can do horrible things for good reasons, or reasons that seem good — duh. Poor Eddie. Poor Jimmy Merton. Poor Billy Beale. Gah. The whole book is full of sad.
And damn James Compton, hmph.
Also, damn Hitler!
(I’m also troubling because we’re coming up on the last back, thus far, in the series. What will we do when there’s not another one to reserve and listen to?!)
I know you’re shocked that I liked Redefining Girly. Hah.
I didn’t love it, but it was good — particularly for those who are just beginning to sort out the whole marketing of gender issue. It’s probably best for those with young children (or no children at all) — those with older kids (tweens/teens) are going to find the recommendations too young, too basic, and not quite on the mark, particularly if they haven’t already been raising their children to question gender stereotypes.
We finished listening to Maisie Dobbs: A Lesson In Secrets last night… another excellent book.
I kept wanting to yell LISTEN TO MAISIE because the men are dumb for not worrying about that whole Hitler, Nazi, fascist thing. Gah.
Also, I’m surprised she never figured out where Sandra went… maybe because she didn’t have time to really think about it? It was obvious to me.
I’m anxious to find out what happens next but we’re taking a little Maisie break to listen to a YA novel instead… then we’ll be back to Maisie again. I think.
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Oddly enough, I haven’t read a lot of books by Fannie Flagg. I have no idea why — I like her ok. Certainly as much as any other southern chick lit writer. I never think to reserve her books. I rarely notice them on the shelf. The last one I read was back in Gainesville, I think… Welcome to the World, Baby Girl.
TW was all proud of herself for getting The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion for me. I had no idea why she was pleased with herself but I definitely appreciated having it on the shelf when I ran out of books (again) a couple of days ago.
It was cute. A little jarring at first to move between the southern women in Alabama and the Polish women in Wisconsin but after a couple of chapters I was ok with that and laughed quite a lot at Suki’s attempts to see a therapist without the whole small town finding out.
The WASP, (Women Airforce Service Pilots) storyline was nice, too. I saw the final twist coming a mile away but that’s ok, it was a fun read and I might even consider reserving another Fannie Flagg book later this year.
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