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Elf Girl

2012, Books in Bed, Non-Fiction, Women /

Reverend Jen is… hard to describe. She kind of scares me. I would love to go visit the Troll Museum, have wanted to visit the Troll Museum since Suzanne Reisman wrote about it in her book Off the Beaten Subway Track, but Rev Jen scares me.

I thought I could convince TW to try it, after reading Elf Girl but then I made the mistake of watching some of Rev Jen’s videos. I think she’s just a little too out there for us. Maybe if we took Michelle with us?

Heh.

I did like the book. Quite a lot. I also agree with her that wearing elf ears is no weirder than some of the other socially accepted stuff people do to themselves.

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Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale

2012, Books in Bed, Fiction, Women /

Well. I liked Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale but I did not love it. I struggled to read it. Not because it wasn’t good or it was a hard read. I struggled because I expected it to be something it wasn’t.

Funny.

It was not funny.

With a cover like that and a title like that and a setting like that… I thought I was getting a light, summery bit of chic lit.

Nope. Not funny.

I’d probably have loved it if it had been just a little funny. The garage sale had some funny moment opportunities, but nope. Wasn’t funny. I need a few laughs with my serious dysfunctional family, Alzhiemer’s, crisis of faith stories.

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Girlchild

2012, Books in Bed, Fiction, Women /

I love the cover of Girlchild. I love the title, too. I also really liked the Girl Scout theme that runs through the book. I liked everything about this book – except the completely depressing fact that it’s about poor women (and children) – which of course means it’s a story about abuse and neglect and alcohol and poverty. Set in Reno.

Depressing, sad, frustrating – but well written and interesting. I loved Rory and her mom and her grandmother.

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Girl Hunter

2012, Books in Bed, cookbooks, Non-Fiction, Women /

I added Girl Hunter to my TBR list when Sassymonkey showed me the book trailer for it. It was one of the first book trailers that I did not hate. That seemed like a good sign. But months went by and I never reserved the book. It just happened to be sitting on the shelf a few months ago so I grabbed it. TW read it quickly and didn’t have a lot to say about it. I picked it up day before yesterday because it was short and I’ve got a ton of books due back that can’t be renewed – I’m reading as many as possible, so short or quick reads are a must right now. Girl Hunter seemed like both.

And it was.

It was also very well written.

What it wasn’t was… passionate.

It was interesting. Kind of. In a hunting sort of way. The men she hunted with were very interesting. Even the asshole in North Dakota or Montana or wherever it was that she tried to go Elk Hunting.

What was missing was Georgia Pellegrinni’s passion and emotion. Even when they were chasing hogs through Arkansas on 4 wheelers, tracking dogs with gps collars, the emotion died down fast. The adrenaline was just not there – and while I’ve never been hunting, I can’t imagine that there isn’t any when you’re hunting HUGE hogs and stabbing them with knives and stuff.

Cold. Interesting, but cold. That’s what Girl Hunter was.

I didn’t hate it. I’m not sorry I read it. I’m just kind of let down by it.

Oh well. You can’t win ‘em all.

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Spy Glass

2012, Books in Bed, Favorites, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Women /

Weird. Spy Glass was the shortest book in the trilogy but it seems like more happened in this one than the others – yet it didn’t feel rushed. Nicely done. I’m not sure I really LOVE the ending – and it was just a tiny, tiny bit predictable where I didn’t find the others to be predictable but that’s not always a bad thing for the last book in a trilogy. Loose ends all nice and need. I hope there’s a series with the kids next…

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Storm Glass

2012, Books in Bed, Favorites, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Women /

I had a little trouble settling into Storm Glass because I only barely remember enough about Poison/Air/Magic Study to figure out how Opal (the lead character in this series) was related to Yelena (the lead character in that series.)  Thankfully, Snyder gave me enough info that I could find my way through the story without having to stop and go find some sort of synapses for the other series.

So basically, if you liked Snyder’s series about Yelena – then you’re definitely going to like this one.  There’s a lot of magic. A lot of trying to figure out what magic does (and doesn’t do.) A lot of secret-y stuff. And just enough connection to that first series to make you feel like you know the places these characters visit.

If you haven’t read Poison/Air/Fire Study – I don’t think you absolutely have to read that series, but I think it’s useful.

Now I’m off to read the next book in this series.

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Let’s Pretend This Never Happened

2012, Books in Bed, Favorites, Non-Fiction, Women /

The Bloggess is FUNNY and I want to be her when I grow up because I NEED A GIANT METAL CHICKEN. I’ve been saying this for months and I still don’t have a GIANT METAL CHICKEN. Reading Let’s Pretend This Never Happened just reminded me that I still DO NOT HAVE A GIANT METAL CHICKEN and this is wrong. Very wrong.

Someday I will have a Beyonce’ of my own. As god as my witness, I will have that GIANT METAL CHICKEN.

Also, I find it interesting that TW and I and RJ and I found different pieces of this book funny. While they roared and guffawed in some places, I barely chuckled. When I was laughing out loud, they were not. Proof that not all of Jenny Lawson’s writing is meant for all people. Or that we’re all fucked up in completely different ways. Whatever. Funny stuff, (and I only got stabby a couple of times when the timing of events was shifted around in not the quite right way.)

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The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

2012, Audiobooks, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Women /

Man I love the Ladies #1 Detective Agency series. I particularly love it on audio. When we finish listening to a book, it’s just no fun to ride in the car and it takes ages ‘til we get used to NOT listening to the stories of the Botswana gang.

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection was exceptionally good – because a visitor arrives. A visitor from far away. FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC storyline.

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#Readathon – Paris Portriats (Third book of the day)

2012, Books in Bed, Dewey's Readathon, Non-Fiction, Women /

110 pages

What a coincidence that I plucked Paris Portraits off of the shelf at the library right about the time that Christopher Moore’s Sacre Bleu arrived and that I read it today, after reading Forbidden Fruit. One of those odd reading coincidences that makes reading richer.

Harriet Levy’s journal of memories from her time in Paris with the Steins and Toklas and various painters and poets. Fabulously interesting. I’d have probably wanted to kill both Stein women – then again, having the opportunity to purchase a Matisse (though I’d have probably sided with Gertrude and gone with the Picasso) would have been amazing… and probably have made it worth it to have to deal with them.

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