See I told you weddings were bad. You get married and bam someone poisons your champagne…. or was it your wife’s champagne? Either way, you’re wed and dead and buried! Wed and Buried was definitely not church-like (see my previous read about The Peabody Sisters) and it was definitely not great chick lit either.
Nice break from the Unitarians but I don’t want to read any more of that stuff! Moving along, and quickly!
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The Peabody Sisters was one heck of a long church sermon! That’s how it felt to me, Unitarian Universalist that I am. Imagine sitting in church nonstop for a week… you non UU people will probably not understand it but the UUs will.
And then, once you UUs have imagined that – imagine not that you’re listening to a really great minister like Reverand Barbara (who is no longer with our congregation, unfortunately) or even Reverand Jack (also no longer with our congregation) but instead some really dry and might I say boring interim minister. That is what The Peabody Sisters felt like, to me.
Of course I did learn that the mighty Elizabeth Peabody is almost solely responsible for Unitarianism and Transcendentalism and all that is right with education. And if folks had only listened to her, folks like Hawthorne and Emerson and Channing and Mann and most especially Bronson Alcott, they would have done far better in their lives. To read this book, Elizabeth Peabody was the founder of it all – at least all that took place in the 1800’s.
That is the only thing that made the book worth sitting for – how often do we hear that a woman was responsible for all the great things (and yes some not so great things too). It got to be a little much, and I kept expecting Elizabeth to have invented the lighbulb and walked on the moon, but I still smiled everytime Elizabeth was the force behind the man or her ideas were used by some man to achieve great things. Oh and Mary and Sophia (the other women that make up the “sisters” weren’t so bad either. Not as great as Elizabeth of course but what can you expect). Woman Power! Go Girl! Hear Me Roar!
OK on to something that I am sure will sound nothing like a church sermon, boring or otherwise. Gosh I miss Reverand Barbara!
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TW picked up The Killing Art from the shelf while I was waiting for the librarian to retrieve our reserves. She didn’t think I’d like it, though I do not know why. It was fun. Nice to read a NYC cop, whodunit type thing about art. I don’t think we read enough books where art plays a large part.
Apparently there are a couple of other books about the lead character (who is a woman! another bonus!) and art murders/crime. I liked The Killing Art enough that I reserved the other two books for future reading.
The fifth book in The Edge Chronicles Series was better than the last couple have been. Possibly because Twig, hero of book one, is back – granted he’s and old dude now but he’s still back.
And while more Banderbears are killed in this book than in any others, I wasn’t quite as troubled as I have been in the other books. RJ bought the 6th book a few months ago so I don’t have to wait til my library list gets short before reading it. Which is good, because Rook returns in this one, as does Vox, and I think I’ll enjoy it.
Care to guess about the Banderbear death count in the next one? I’m guessing at least one but probably 2 will die. Sigh.
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From the author of the Thursday Next series, Nursery Crimes! The first installment, The Big Over Easy, asks was he pushed? Did he get sloshed and fall off? Was it suicide? Just what really happened to Humpty Dumpty? Jack (the giant killer!) and Mary, Mary don’t stop til they find out!
TW read this months ago and I’ve started it two or three times, never quite getting past the first chapter or two. I was afraid I was going to hate it, or at least be disappointed, so I kept putting it off. I should have read it months ago, it was fun!
TW says not as good as the Thursday Next books but I think it might have been better. TW liked the really ridiculous inventions and stuff in Thursday Next more than I did. I really enjoyed the nusery rhyme character twists more than she did. Regardless, both series are fun. I can’t wait for the next Nursery Crime – The Fourth Bear. And of course more Thursday Next are always welcome.
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The Art of Uncontrolled Flight was disappointing. Women in the military, flying even, you’d think it would be good, right? It wasn’t. Bits and pieces of it were good but mostly, it was boring and not very original. More dsyfunctional family stuff. A dead mom. Dirtbag father. Typical military men. Boring. And then there was the troubling section where they jumped from war scene to war scene and mixed the years all up. What was that about? I didn’t get that at all. The dots never connected for me if they were suppose to somehow connect.
Blah.
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This was one of the better “mommy” chicklit books I’ve read in awhile. Lots of mommies, working daddies, the token gay boy mommy and NYC all make it slightly predictable but still fun to read.
I have one complaint, it’s not a “chat board” it’s either a chat room or a message board. You’d think folks could get that right by now, wouldn’t you? Hmmm wonder when I’ll read a mommy chicklit book that includes mommy blogs instead?
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Okkkkk, I’m a little disappointed that my first book of 2006 was an evangelical novel set in the Carolina Lowcountry. I had no idea Grace at Low Tide was an evangelical novel. TW read it ages ago and I thought “Grace” was a reference to the dog-gone Grace Bridge!
When I started reading the book last night, after a couple of pages I turned to TW and said “ummm there’s a lot of God in here” and her reply was “not really”. Umm if that’s not a lot of God, I don’t want to know what is.
Totally not my cup of tea. Too sappy. To much God and Jesus and praying for me.
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