It’s rare that I find a book that will hold my interest for over a day. Usually, I start on one then find another shiny new one to distract me and end up reading 3-4 books in rotation over a period of time.
These two books I read one at a time and every moment I [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Fiction’
August 4, 2008
Two Books I Couldn’t Put Down: Good On Ya
July 22, 2008
Ambivalent About It: Tigerheart
Maybe I’m just in a mood…but I started off really liking this book and then it just sort of petered (there’s a pun there…stay tuned) out on me.
Peter David’s Tigerheart is a reworking of the Peter Pan (see, told you there was a bad pun connection) story. The best parts of the book are when the narrator [...]
July 15, 2008
Book Pairings: They go together like rama lama lama…
…or something like that. Don’t ask me to hand jive as it always ends badly (more like Monty Python’s fish slapping dance).
Through some strange twist of fate, I ended up reading books that seem to mesh quite well together.
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The World Without Us by Alan Weisman is just fantastic (for fun, look at this quick study). [...]
July 6, 2008
Some Duds: Books I Declined to Finish
While I really love Andre Norton’s Witch World books, some of the collaborative series have been stinkers. Sadly, this is true for one the last collaborative books she created: A Taste of Magic by Andre Norton and Jean Rabe.
The dialogue is stilted, clunky and ridiculous (although Three Hands for Scorpio is much, much worse). I [...]
June 27, 2008
It Had a Frog on the Cover
Sigh. I am such a marketing sucker.
But, seriously…what a cool cover! And frogs…love frogs!
I’m on an E. Lockhart reading jag. The Boyfriend List was funny and quick. I was telling someone that the protagonist seemed like a teenage, female version of Woody Allen and then I quickly realized maybe that was an icky comparison (as [...]
June 16, 2008
Lookin’ at the World Through Fly’s Eyes
Just finished up a teen book that was a quick, fun read. Fly on the Wall by e. lockhart is about an art school teen and what happens when she transforms into a fly a la Kafka. Oh, did I mention that during this fly incarnation she is stuck inside the boy’s locker room?
This book [...]
