I stumbled across a blog post or a comment or an article about My Mother’s House & Sido and realized I had never read them. Gasp. Must read Colette whenever possible!
So I did, and I liked both. Colette is a favorite. Always a favorite.
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I read Parable of the Sower years ago. So long ago that I really had forgotten it, so listening to it on audio was like reading it for the first time.
I’m an Octavia Butler fan and every time I read (or re-read) something she’s written, I become an even bigger fan.
God is Change.
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Traveling with Pomegranates is part travel book, part mother-daughter exploration, part coming of age book (for young women and older women), part spiritual exploration. At times it seems like it’s a bit too much mix of too many things, but overall – it works.
It’s also a wee bit disconcerting to read Sue Monk Kidd (and her daughter) while listening to Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The two books mingle and mix with mixed results.
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Deja Vu – all the way through Quickening.
Parts of it seemed so familiar, I was sure I had read it before. But other parts completely new and fresh.
I like a book that a) shows a woman choosing abortion b) shows a woman going through with the abortion c) makes it clear that the abortion was a good choice.
Oops, spoiler. Sorry about that. 😉
When sassymonkey Chattered/Tweeted about Spinning Forward all I did was look at the cover, see the pretty yarn and reserve it at the library. I didn’t look to see what it was about.
When I picked it up on Thursday I realized it was about a woman who opened a yarn store in Cedar Key… and I really did almost cry.
I miss my LYS and my LYSOs. I miss Florida. I miss Cedar Key.
The book itself was nice enough. Not an award winner but a nice story about a woman finding herself. I wouldn’t have liked it nearly as much if it hadn’t been set in Cedar Key and if I didn’t have such great LYSO friends.
I really thought I had already read Ella in Bloom, it seemed so familiar to me when reading the first few pages but no, I would have remembered.
Nice story. I liked Ella a lot but I liked Birdie more – I’d like a story just about Birdie.
(Another From the Stacks book, yay me.)
Oh look, another book we got at the library after we saw it at Women and Children First. TW forced me to read The Wet Nurse’s Tale. I didn’t want to. It looked like nothing special and I’m so far behind on my From the Stacks Challenge that I will never catch up. But she insisted and it was late when I finished Skyscraper. So rather than go out to the office and figure out what I was reading next, I just started Wet Nurse, because it was there.
And last night I stayed up to finish it. It wasn’t super compelling until the end. Before the end, it was just a nice little story about a young girl who becomes a wet nurse (and whose mother had been a wet nurse.)
The ending – I liked it.
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Skyscraper is a bit of pulp fiction by Faith Baldwin, re-released as part of the femme-fatales series, and I noticed it at Women & Children First a couple of weeks ago.
I’m a fan of woman written pulp so I reserved it at the library. It was the perfect read after finishing Say You’re One of the Them. Nice introduction and afterward as well.
If you haven’t read any of the old pulp fiction, or haven’t read any in a long time – check out the femme fatales series. Or anything by Faith Baldwin.
TW said Baking Cakes in Kigali was kind of Ladies #1 Detective Agency-like. I guess she’s right, though I didn’t find Angel nearly as compelling as I do Precious. And of course, there isn’t really any detectiving going on in Baking Cakes.
But yes, the morals and lessons – those remind me of Mma. Ramotswe.
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I think The Shortest Distance Between Two Women is the first Kris Radish book that I didn’t really enjoy.
I liked the Guilford women. I liked the small SC town the story was set in. I even sort of liked the idea behind the book. But it was long and rambling and not in a good way.
It was feel good chick lit that really never felt good.
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