The last book in my From the Stacks Challenge, A Family Christmas, done!
I’m glad I saved it for last. I thought it was more of a look into the Kennedy Christmas and it wasn’t that at all. It was a compilation of Christmas music, poetry, short stories, letters, etc…
Easy, quick, kind of nice if you ever need a Christmas literature reference type book.
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It’s rare that I don’t finish a book, even if I dislike it. I tried, I really tried, to read Four Sisters of Hofei and I just couldn’t do it. It wasn’t that it was non-fiction, it was that it was boring text book style non-fiction. I just didn’t care. I read five chapters plus the intro and that was enough.
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A story about a woman bringing the word of God to her people – to all people – should not be so bloody tedious. And that’s what Tathea was. Tedious and also painful.
I should have put it down about 1/3 into it. I didn’t because there were bright, interesting moments when I got a glimpse of what the story could have been. I held onto the hope that it would become that story. By the time I realized it never would be, it was too late. I was 2/3 into the book and I just had to keep plodding on.
I won’t be reading the sequel.
Another From the Stacks book finished. Thank GOD. Now excuse me while I go read about zombies for awhile.
One of the problems with creating a From the Stacks Challenge list based on the colors on your bookshelf is that you find yourself with books that you aren’t really sure you want to read. Like Eccentric Neighborhoods.
Every time I’d start to read a book from my challenge, I’d pick this one up and put it back down. I kept sliding it toward the bottom of the stack. I just didn’t feel like I wanted to read it.
When I got down to mostly books I wasn’t sure I really wanted to read, I picked this one up and started reading. And while I wouldn’t say I couldn’t put it down, I can say that I didn’t have any problems picking it up.
It was a much quicker, easier read than I expected. I liked all of the families and their stories. I wasn’t exactly sad when it ended but I wasn’t happy to be finished with it either. Not a bad book at all, I’m definitely glad I read it.
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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. 😉
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.)
I am such a Minette Walters fan. I can’t help it, she’s just awesome. Being such a huge fan, I have no idea why we’ve owned The Shape of Snakes for years and I’ve never made the time to read it. Until now. (Yay me, one more crossed off of the From the Stacks Challenge.)
A typical Walters book, a crime (or several) – a mystery – characters you love and hate and are a wee bit afraid of (even when they’re the “good guys”) Twists and turns.
This one featured…. race relations… London… Tourette Syndrome.
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I think we bought Quaker Summer at Books a Million the week we moved here, which happens to also be the week before Books a Million closed causing me to hate them for the rest of my life.
Quaker Summer is also on my From the Stacks Challenge list. It’s blue.
It took me a long time to read it because I’ve been a little busy. Family visits. Hospital stays. A tiny little conference coming up. Stuff like that.
It wasn’t a great book, but it wasn’t a horrible book either. A nice piece of Christian chick lit with good characters. The storyline was a little much but that’s ok, it was fun just the same.
The Devil in the Junior League is on my From the Stacks Challenge and it’s pure junk chick lit. But fun chick lit. An excellent book to read in between the self help I read a couple of days ago and the graphic novel I’m going to read next.
Frede Ware is awesome and so is Nikki Grout.
Fun. Just what chick lit should be.
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I don’t usually love or even really like books written as letters so I was prepared to grumble my way through The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, but I didn’t.
Olivia Hunt writes a great letter – it doesn’t matter what kind of letter she’s writing, it’s excellent.
I don’t really want to completely pan everything else about the book because for what it is, it’s darn good. The problem is what what it is – a story about a good sister who has a good marriage who gets sick and dies. While the bad sister works in Hollywood, has bad relationships and lives.
Now I know Elisabeth Robinson worked in Hollywood. And I know she has a sister who died. So I get it. But this isn’t non-fiction and I’m a little tired of the good die, leaving the rest of us better people because of all we’ve learned and by the way, we really miss them and cancer sucks.
Been there, done that.
Except I have to say again… Olivia Hunt writes a great letter and for that, it’s worth reading the same old story again.
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