Another 209 pages down, which is a little misleading. Forbidden Fruit: A History of Women and Books in Art is a very large coffee table type book. It’s beautiful and interesting and I would own it if I were a rich woman. I also need to remember to find a copy of The Tale of the Genji, which I still have never read.
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I really, really liked The Little Giant of Aberdeen County and was really excited to start reading The Gilly Salt Sisters. But, it started off really slow. I tried not to let that get to me because I remember some slow points from Little Giant, too… but, The Gilly Salt Sisters had a few too many slow points and I found myself tempted to skim a lot more than I’d like.
I also did not love the end – as in the very, very, very end like the last chapter end. What was the point of that jumping so far forward? Take my advice and stop with chapter 30. Or, if you really need a tiny bit more – read a few pages into chapter 32 and then quit. That’s all you need. The rest was just a letdown and left me saying, “huh?”.
Now I want something salty. Or maybe salty-sweet.
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Oops. I forgot to blog Below Stairs – I finished it days ago. It was kind of fun, and a wee bit interesting. I’d have probably enjoyed it more if I was a Downton Abby watcher or if I’d recently seen Upstairs, Downstairs (which I enjoyed when I was a kid.) I spent a lot of time looking up things like Scotch Woodcock and Gentleman’s Relish, which is what happens when I read a book like Below Stairs. Heh.
I’d like to say I read Honolulu in preparation for my trip to Hawaii but I didn’t. I read it because TW asked me to reserve it after it was suggested to her (on Good Reads, maybe) as a book she would like because she liked Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. She read it. She liked it. I figured I would like it too, since I liked Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.
And I did, though it took me a lot longer to start to like it than it took TW. She liked it from the start – I didn’t like it until Jin left her dirtbag husband. That wasn’t far into the book, but I was tired when I first picked it up so it felt like AGES before I really got into the book. I loved the way the picture brides came together and supported each other. That’s really what made the book, for me. (And May’s storyline was pretty darn fantastic too.)
I’ve read a lot of Naiad Press books but I’ve never read one where the dyke has sex with a ghost dyke who has been dead for 150ish years. I know, where have I been, right?
Gardenias Where There Are None – wasn’t the book I was hoping for, but why should it have been – TW didn’t write it. ; -)
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I downloaded Bad Luck Officer and couldn’t put it down. I do love a good self-published book by an awesome BlogHer member – and I have a thing for hot cops, lol.
Michelle came home from a trip to the bookstore in January with a present for me.
I loved it but decided to wait til GSUSA’s 100th birthday to read it. And that’s what I did yesterday. I took short breaks throughout the work day and finished Girl Scouts: A Celebration of 100 Trailblazing Years late last night. It was fabulous and fun. The photos are terrific and I found myself nodding and smiling my head all the way through.
It was a great gift and it was a real pleasure reading it on the 100th birthday celebration.
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I’ve decided I hate series’. They always end just where I don’t want them to end. Born Wicked, for example – gah! Next book! Need next book NOW. What happens to poor Maura. Are the Cahill sisters really the sisters from the prophecy or does Sachi have another sister/half-sister…? See that, see the problem. While I really enjoyed the story and am dying for the next book, I’m also looking for some unexpected twist because right now, it’s a little too easy.
Thank goodness – you know how a series can get kind of boring after awhile, particularly if you read a bunch of books in the series really close together? Well Timeless, the fifth book in the Parasol Protectorate series, was excellent. As TW said, just as good as the first book and certainly better than the second and third and fourth. I was glad to see that some of the things I thought should happen in order to tie everything into a neat and pretty package DID happen. But now I’m dying to know what happens next and there is no next. I mean I know what happens because the last book tied it all up for us but I want to READ it not just picture it. And, to not know how Ivy manages. Or see Madame LeFeoux neat and tidy. And. And. And.
Darn.
I guess I can wait for Prudence to grow up a bit more, 2013 will come around soon enough. I guess.
We bought Chasing Lightning during our little adventure day trip a few weeks ago where we went into the city and visited three Indie bookstores that we hadn’t visited before – we always buy at least one book when we visit such stores and when possible we buy queer lit in order to support the cause. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this one, except TW read it first and said it had a lot of sex in it. It did, but not graphic sex (at least not graphic sex when you compare it to straight lit of a similar type, lol.)
I liked the book but it covered a lot of ground in a very short amount of time – short chapters, which can be a little disconcerting but also made it an easy read. It almost feels like it was intended for “new” lesbians because of the explanations about what life was like for queers in the 60’s and 70’s took up a lot of room in the book, considering how short the chapters were. Those “non-fictiony” type sections felt off and were a bit of a distraction from Scarlett’s story because some of them didn’t feel like they fit very well into the story.
It was a nice, easy read during a busy weekend.