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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Lorena recommended The Fresco and when Joe Haldeman’s niece recommends SCIFI, you should really take that recommendation seriously. It took me weeks to get around to reading it but I’m glad I did.
The Fresco was … really interesting.
I can’t decide what my reaction might have been if I was in Benita’s place.
I also can’t decide whether the ETs plans to resolve some of our (all of our?) problems are good ideas or not so much, heh.
The ending – fabulous. Not so much the last chapter, but the way Benita convinced folks to resolve the problem – totally brilliant.
Ya gotta love strong female characters, particularly in SCIFI, and there were several in this book.
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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Nordette mentioned The Cutting Season and I’ll admit that I didn’t really pay a lot of attention to what she actually said about it – maybe that she saw the author speak at a signing? Or she heard an interview? I’m not sure, I was busy and tired – all I know is that there are some folks whose book mentions/recommendations I pay attention to. Nordette is one of those folks.
So, I reserved it right away and when it came, the author looked really familiar. I thought I must have read her first book – but nope, I didn’t. I still don’t know why she looks familiar but I’m going back to grab her first book because I enjoyed The Cutting Season so much.
I read some of the reviews for The Cutting Season and some folks were hard on the author and on the main character. I don’t get it. Maybe they aren’t from the south? It all made perfect sense to me. I will admit to being frustrated by Caren at the end – whether she wanted it or not, it was hers. Her great-great-great grandfather wanted it. Worked for it. Died for it. Gah. I know, it’s complicated.
Do you know who I didn’t like? I didn’t like Morgan. Odd character for me to have strong, negative feelings about, isn’t it? But there you go. A child character that just didn’t work for me.
Whatever – the book was good. I’m glad I read it. I’m thankful that Nordette mentioned it. I’m looking forward to Dark Water Rising.
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Last week, or maybe earlier this week (I dunno, time flies and I can’t keep track anymore), Sassymonkey asked some folks what the best book they read this year was. I refused to answer because I can’t do “favorites” – there are lots of different kinds of “best” and “favorite” and how do you pick just one?
Whatever, right?
One of my favorite series was The Parasol Protectorate. I loved those books and I’m dying to read the next series – I mean really dying to read them. I introduced them to Michelle Belle and she ripped through the whole series, too.
I’d been meaning to check out the manga versions and when Michelle read the series last week, I was inspired to grab one from the library. Soulless: The Manga was just as fun as Soulless (the not manga). The color frames in the beginning are GORGEOUS and I really wish the entire book was color. It’s not that the black and whites aren’t good, they are – but the color really did justice to all of the characters and I didn’t think I’d feel that way having loved the non-manga series so much.
The only tiny little complaint I have about the first book is Lord Maccon’s accent…. It’s supposed to get stronger and revert to the Scottish brogue when he’s wound up by Alexia and that didn’t really happen. There’s one bubble where he starts to slip into it but that was it. I’m not sure what the thinking was behind that change but it disappointed me.
Otherwise, bring on Volume 2!
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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.
Right before the #readathon, I picked up Granny D’s American Century because I was afraid I might not have enough books to read for the #readathon. (Haha, very funny, hahaha.) It’s a good book to read during election season – Granny D was an awesome woman and I’m feeling all inspired to vote tomorrow. The only problem with this book is that there were not nearly enough darn photos.
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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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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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The Color of Tea started off really dark and depressing – and slow. That was the worst part, it was so slow that I read a chapter and put it down and each night I considered just stopping and starting something else. If there had been something on the shelf I was dying to read, I’d have done that. But no, I muddled through. And I’m glad I did because about the time Grace decided to get out of bed and build a café was the time it lightened up and moved. Which makes sense.
I loved Café’ Lillian. I loved the women who made their lives there.
I can’t decide how I feel about the end. I knew it was coming – an infertility story that was going to turn into an open adoption story… Grace gave birth to the macaron café and GiGi gave birth to Faith and then they… swapped. That’s how it felt and that’s why I can’t decide whether I liked the ending. Which is pretty much how I feel about adoption in general, I guess.