The Other Daughter is another great novel from Lauren Willig. I enjoyed it so much, I didn’t want to put it down. Rachel is a great character (and so is Vera.) I’m very glad everything turned out the way it did for Rachel and for the other characters. Except for CeCe, poor CeCe. We should have a book about CeCe, that would be fabulous.
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I don’t know if At The Water’s Edge started slowly or if I was just tired but I had a really hard time getting through the first third of the book. I pretty much hated all of the characters in the beginning. I obviously didn’t end up loving the guys but at least I started to care about the story once they made their way to Scotland got settled in there.
After that, I really enjoyed it and ended up staying awake way too late last night to finish it.
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We very much enjoyed listining to Gabi, A Girl In Pieces. I loved Gabi, her family and her friends. I loved the honesty in this book. It felt very realistic, to me. I can see teen girls feeling all of these things. I can see teen girls being confused about all of the same things. It was also a YA trouble book that didn’t leave me feeling like the author just threw in all of the possible teen problems just to throw in all of the possible teen problems, as so many YA books do.
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Poor Maisie Dobbs. *sniff* I liked A Dangerous Place but definitely wish we’d gotten a book before this one. One about the trip to India and then life in Canada. Sigh. Poor Maisie. I wonder if we’ll get a book about where she is now or if it will jump ahead to England. I hope we get one where she is now…
And to think, I almost didn’t read Jam on the Vine. Sheesh. One of the best books I’ve read this year and I almost missed it. Good thing TW pointed it out when she finished.
This is not the normal post-civil war era book. There are black Muslims in Texas. There are lesbians. It makes you think a bit of Ida B. Welles but not enough to actually make you feel like you’re reading Ida B Wells fan fiction or something like that.
Read it!
I enjoyed One Good Life quite a bit. It was nice to get to know more about her and hear her story. The addition of posts from her blog was a nice touch.
Lowcountry Bombshell was amusing. Very amusing. It made me want to read Marilyn Monroe biographies and watch Marilyn Monroe movies.
And now that I’m caught up on the Liz Talbot series, I hope another one comes out soon. Totally fun.
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Yep, I finally read Brown Girl Dreaming and it was awesome. It also made me kind of homesick.
Definitely the best of the bunch in the cybils shortlist for poetry.
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Well that was depressing. Good, but depressing. The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell is FICTION but loosely based on a real person. The question is, how loosely based. I’m not a huge fan of the whole “ghost” story author’s note at the end… that sounds to me like it was added because family members of Lobdell tell a slightly different version of the story. Not that it matters, still a depressing story. Lesbian woman. Trans man. Whatevs. Pretty darn sad.
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Yay! Another book in the series! Boo, I’m not sure I read all of the “glass” books, haha. I need to go back and figure that out. I did enjoy Shadow Study but not as much as the other books (that I remember reading in the two series. lol) And I absolutely knew what Yelena’s problem was from the very beginning. Wasn’t it a little obvious?
I think the next two books are going to be very interesting…