I’m a fairy tale fan. I’m also a modern day fairy tale fan. When I’m Here, I’m Queer, What the Hell Do I Read mentioned Ash I went immediately to my library website and reserved the book.
Awesome.
Not just a lesbian Cinderella but there are also fairies and huntresses. Best adaptation of Cinderella I’ve read in a long long time.
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. 😉
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.)
Not sure why I grabbed Going Bovine on audio, probably related to having just finished South of Broad on audio and feeling like something was missing by being in the car without an audio book.
It was a good choice for audio. I think it was probably better in audio than I’d have found it if I’d read it in paper.
Amusing story and I appreciated that the ending wasn’t fairy tale (TW was less appreciative of that and I bet if the kids had heard the ending, they’d have been disappointed.)
The best parts were related to the CESSNAB (Church of Everlasting Satisfaction and Snack and Bowl) and the “freeing of the snowglobes”.
Another book in the Femme Fatales series, Bunny Lake is Missing. I think it was a better movie than it was a book. Definitely not my favorite “women writing pulp” book but a nice read just the same.
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That Old Cape Magic is no Bridge of Sighs. It’s no Empire Falls or Straight Man, either. But it’s good. Not every book can be great and sometimes it is enough to be good.
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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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