Well I’ve done it, I’ve read the last of the Kris Radish books. Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral was like the others, not as good as The Elegant Gathering of White Snows but it was good. In that feel good, woman power sort of way.
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Almost Doesn’t Count is the library book that disappeared from our shelves ages ago that neither of us could remember ever seeing. It’s the one I paid for to clear my library account. It’s the one I found on our bookshelves a month later. It’s the one TW said “Oh that was good! I wouldn’t mind owning that!”
Well I finally made time to read it and I can’t figure out why TW would want to own it. It isn’t a bad book but it isn’t great and the editing was troubling in a lot of places. A Georgia black woman dealing with childhood abuse and intimacy issues. Lots of rough sex, really rough sex.
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It took me a long, long time to finish Zoia’s Gold. It was slow until the end and then it picked up nicely and I was turning pages as quickly as I could. Interesting, though I was troubled that it took so long for them to figure out what Zoia was hiding with the gold… it seemed obvious to me, which is probably why I found it moved so slowly.
Heh, I had forgotten this was on the A to Z challenge list! Yea! One more to cross off. Not a bad book either. I’d like a Zoia painting, I think.
Another Radish book down, is it two or three more to go? I am not sure, I’ve lost track and they are beginning to blend in together just a little bit. Though Sunday List of Dreams was different from the other two in some significant ways (main character was just a little more reserved than the others and errr uhhh ummm the whole sex toy industry thing….sheesh).
TW didn’t really like this one, she said. The person who first recommended Elegant Gathering didn’t like this one very much. I, on the otherhand, liked it quite a bit more than Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn. It’s not often that you read a book about sex toys and the “womyn’s festival”.
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Look! A post about a book! A book I was very disappointed with. The Story of the Cannibal Woman has a great title and got some good reviews and I yawned my way through it. (At least I made it through, TW put it down early.) There were lines I really liked, passages where I thought “Hey, this might improve!” but in the end it was disappointing. All of that back and forth, mixed up mess, for this ending? OK. Well. Ho Hum.
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Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn, another Kris Radish, is pure chick lit with a dumb title. Any number of great lines from the book could have been used as the title, too bad something else wasn’t selected. Anyway, back to the pure chick lit – that’s what it was. Nothing really new or unusual about it, unlike the Elegant Gathering of White Snows which all felt new and unusual. Pure chick lit (and as you know if you read my book blogging regularly, I like chick lit.)
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How did that happen? I almost forgot to blog The Broke Diaries. Crazy since it’s one of the better books I’ve read over the last week or so. In fact, I’m going to toss it into the “favorites” category because I really loved it.
It reads like a blog, or an online journal, which is just how it should read since Nissel is an online kind of woman and started posting her “broke diaries” online. I love a book that reads like a blog rather than one that TRIES to read like a blog.
I’m off to reserve her latest book, Mixed, from the library now. Anyone read it? Is it as good as Broke Diaries? It is, isn’t it?
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Sassymonkey said Magic Study was less evil than Poison Study, (evil = caused to stay up late into the night to finish), I disagree. I found Magic Study got off to a much quicker, a quick start and I really wanted to do nothing except keep reading! I took a break to help a friend with her blog template and in the back of my head was “darn, now I’m not going to finish this tonight”. Ha, I should have known I’d just keep reading.
I thought for a minute the author was going to make everything neat and tidy, I’m so glad she didn’t. I liked the interaction between Yalena and Lief and Yalena and her mother. Those had to be tough relationships for the author to create and maintain.
I’m looking forward to Fire Study.
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Well sassymonkey turned out to be right after all. Poison Study was difficult to put down once I got into it. That whole getting into it thing was a problem. It was really slow for the first chapter or two. I thought sassymonkey had lost her mind.
I thought this was a YA book but it isn’t – why isn’t it? Oh more money in adult books, maybe? Maybe it is the transgendered character keeping it from being a YA? Ha. I was surprised at the TG turn, pleasantly surprised actually. F2M TG, awesome – that is just not something you see everyday and certainly not an F2M TG with all of that power. I would love to hear the story of how that all came about. Not that I don’t like Yelena, I do. But I have a lot of questions about Ambrosia….
I’m off to read Magic Study now.
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I started reading The Expected One while we were in London but had to take it back to the library when we got home because it was over-due. I picked it up from the library a couple of weeks ago and finally made time for it yesterday. I made time for it by ignoring the chores on my “to do list”. I didn’t want to put it down!
I love “Mary” stories, and this was one of the better ones.
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